Poetics of Love in the Arabic Novel
Author | : Wen-chin Ouyang |
Publisher | : Edinburgh University Press |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2012-06-20 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780748655052 |
ISBN-13 | : 0748655050 |
Rating | : 4/5 (050 Downloads) |
Download or read book Poetics of Love in the Arabic Novel written by Wen-chin Ouyang and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2012-06-20 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Considers the Arabic novel within the triangle of the nation-state, modernity and traditionWen-Chin Ouyang explores the development of the Arabic novel, especially the ways in it engages with aesthetics, ethics and politics in a cross-cultural context and from a transnational perspective.Taking love and desire as the central tropes , the story of the Arabic novel is presented as a series of failed, illegitimate love affairs, all tainted by its suspicion of the legitimacy of the nation, modernity and tradition and, above all, by its misgiving about its own propriety.