02166pam a2200289 a 450000100070000000500170000700800410002401000170006502000280008204000180011004300120012805000240014008200120016410000250017624500800020125000120028126000560029330000260034944000430037550400640041850509980048252002810148065000570176165000200181865000240183865000140186212288620230410130516.0940728s1995    nyu      b   s001 0 eng    a   94030685   a081562641X (alk. paper)  aDLCcDLCdDLC  ama-----14aPJ 7577bA425a 199500a892.7361 aAllen, Roger,d1942-14aThe Arabic novel :ban historical and critical introduction /cRoger Allen.  a2nd ed.  aSyracuse, N.Y. :bSyracuse University Press,c1995.  axix, 307 p. ;c23 cm. 0aContemporary issues in the Middle East  aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 271-295) and index.  aPreface to the First Edition / C.E. Bosworth --  1. The Novel: Parameters of Definition --  2. Early Developments in the Arabic Novel Tradition --  3. The Period of Maturity. Political and Social Background. Decades of Realism. Principal Themes in the Modern Arabic Novel. Transformations in Fictional Perspective. The Writer, the Reader, and the Text --  4. Twelve Arabic Novels. Thartharah fawq al-Nil / Najib Mahfuz. Ma tabaqqa la-kum / Ghassan Kanafani. 'Awdat al-ta'ir ila al-bahr / Halim Barakat. Mawsim al-hijrah ila al-shamal / al-Tayyib Salih. Ayyam al-insan al-sab'ah / 'Abd al-hakim Qasim. Al-Safinah / Jabra Ibrahim Jabra. "Quartet" (Kanat al-sama' zarqa', Al-Mustanqa'at al-daw'iyyah, Al-Habl, and Al-Difaf al-ukhra) / Isma'il Fahd Isma'il. Al-Zayni Barakat / Jamal al-Ghitani. Al-Waqa'i al-gharibah fi-ikhtifa' Sa'id Abi al-nahs al-mutasha'il / Emile Habibi. Al-Nihayat / 'Abd al-rahman Munif. Hikayat Zahrah / Hanan al-Shaykh. Nazif al-hajar / Ibrahim al-Kuni --  5. Conclusion.  aThis edition includes new material on the Arabic novel up to 1993. It is a survey of the Arabic novel and its development from its beginnings in the 19th century until today. It traces the origin, early cultivation and the mature period after World War II of the Arabic novel.00aArabic fictiony20th centuryxHistory and criticism. 4aNovela árabe. 4aLiteratura árabe. 4a20160800.