Mon, 9/28 – Arabic literary history: the Nahda and the Arabic novel
- Sources of renewal
- Aspects of renewal
- Consequences of renewal
- Renewal and the novel
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
- Definitions and problematics: Romanticism, realism, & modernism
- Literary romanticism and literary realism: student perspectives
Hwk: Naguib Mahfouz, Midaq Alley, Ch. 1-18