Week 3: 9/28-10/2

Mon, 9/28 – Arabic literary history: the Nahda and the Arabic novel

  1. Sources of renewal
  2. Aspects of renewal
  3. Consequences of renewal
  4. Renewal and the novel

the Nahda

Hwk: Salma Khadra Jayyusi, “Introduction” (pp. 11-19) from Modern Arabic Fiction (ERes); Muhammad Haykal, Zaynab, Ch. 1-4; Khalil Jibran, “Wordless Sorrow” & “The Hand of Destiny” from Broken Wings (e-book, available through library website); Written homework #3

 

Wed, 9/30 – Romanticism to Modernism: the Arabic novel in the first half of the 20th century

  1. Definitions and problematics: Romanticism, realism, & modernism
  2. Literary romanticism and literary realism: student perspectives

Early Modern Prose

Hwk: Naguib Mahfouz, Midaq Alley, Ch. 1-18