Week 1: Wed, 9/16

Wed, 9/16 – Course introduction: Goals and problematics

1. Why do we read novels? Why read Arabic novels?
2. What is literature? What is imaginative prose? How do we identify “literariness”?
3. Course administrativa

9.16_Literariness & Narrative

Hwk: Terry Eagleton, “What is a Novel?” from The English Novel: An Introduction (pp. 1-21, ERes); Written homework #1: “How do we study the Arabic novel?”