Modern Arabic Literature

by Paul Starkey

Book Overview

In this succinct introduction to modern Arabic literature of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Paul Starkey traces its development from the medieval Arabic literary tradition--beginning in the sixth-century with nomadic Bedouin poetry and the Qur'an--through new literary forms adapted from Western imaginative literature. He explores the interaction between social, political, and cultural change in the Middle East and northern Africa and the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 158901135X
• ISBN13: 9781589011359
• Release Date: August 2006
• Publisher: Georgetown University Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.77 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.3" x 9.3"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher