Author: Jaroslav Stetkevych
Publisher: Georgetown University Press
ISBN: 9781589011175
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 164
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The Modern Arabic Literary Language is a thoughtful examination of the changes that the Arabic language has undergone in its transition from its roots in classical Arabic to a language able to meet the demands of twentieth-century life. In this volume a respected and masterful scholar of the Arabic language Jaroslav Stetkevych notes the ways that new words have been incorporated into the language, ranging from deriving new terms from existing roots (for example, the word for "newspaper" derives from the word meaning "sheet to write on") to downright assimilation of foreign words. Also noting the changes in grammar and semantics, Stetkevych illustrates how literary Arabic has become a more flexible language. Originally published in 1970, this volume is a clear assessment of lexical and stylistic developments in Modern Literary Arabic. This classic book is an important resource for scholars and advanced students of Arabic language and linguistics who wish to study the complexities of language change and lexical expansion.
Author: Paul Starkey
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 0748696539
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 272
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An introduction to Modern Arabic Literature, from the beginning of the nineteenth century to the present
Author: Jaroslav Stetkevych
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780226773384
Category : Arabic language
Languages : en
Pages : 135
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Author: Roger Allen
Publisher: New York : Ungar Publishing Company
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 416
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Author: Michelle Hartman
Publisher: Modern Language Association
ISBN: 1603293167
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 256
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Understanding the complexities of Arab politics, history, and culture has never been more important for North American readers. Yet even as Arabic literature is increasingly being translated into English, the modern Arabic literary tradition is still often treated as other--controversial, dangerous, difficult, esoteric, or exotic. This volume examines modern Arabic literature in context and introduces creative teaching methods that reveal the literature's richness, relevance, and power to anglophone students. Addressing the complications of translation head on, the volume interweaves such important issues such as gender, the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, and the status of Arabic literature in world literature. Essays cover writers from the recent past, like Emile Habiby and Tayeb Salih; contemporary Palestinian, Egyptian, and Syrian literatures; and the literature of the nineteenth-century Nahda.
Author: Muḥammad Muṣṭafá Badawī
Publisher: Oxford [England] : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780198265429
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 314
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Badawi gives a concise and authoritative survey, in English, of the whole whole of modern Arabic literature since the mid-19th century. He charts the efforts of Arab authors to meet the modern world in the imported forms of the novel, short story, and drama, aswell as in their indigenous poetic and prose tradition.
Author: David Cowan
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521092401
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 228
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The lessons are clear, in non-technical language, and have generous examples, with plenty of exercises for translation from Arabic to English and from English to Arabic. This is the manual that students interested in Arabic as a living and expanding world language will prefer. It is the first to deal mainly with modern literary Arabic. In Mr Cowan's words: 'The purpose is to explain to the students, in as concise a manner as possible, the grammatical structure of the modern Arabic literary language as it is found today in newspapers, magazines, books, the radio, and public speaking. I have endeavoured to restrict the material to the minimum which may serve as a stepping-stone to a deeper study of Arabic. As the fundamental grammar of written Arabic has hardly changed as an introduction to the classical language also. Having once mastered its contents the student should have a sound grasp of Arabic grammar and can then direct his studies towards modern literature or classical according to his needs and inclinations.
Author: J. Brugman
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004663037
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 455
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Author: Sasson Somekh
Publisher: Otto Harrassowitz Verlag
ISBN: 9783447031332
Category : Arabic language
Languages : en
Pages : 160
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Author: Roger Allen
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 300
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Covers the entire history of modern Arabic literature from the late-19th century to the end of the 1980s, with examples drawn from countries as diverse as Egypt and Kuwait. Although the main accent is on the prose of Egypt and the countries of the Mashreq, North African literature is also included.
