03258nam 22005292 450 991079335810332120200115154937.01-4744-6022-41-4744-0742-01-4744-0741-210.1515/9781474407410(CKB)4100000007164702(MiAaPQ)EBC5603067(UkCbUP)CR9781474407410(StDuBDS)EDZ0002535428(DE-B1597)616056(DE-B1597)9781474407410(OCoLC)1312727234(EXLCZ)99410000000716470220191112d2019|||| uy| 0engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierProphetic translation the making of modern Egyptian literature /Maya I Kesrouany[electronic resource]Edinburgh :Edinburgh University Press,2019.1 online resource (xi, 250 pages) digital, PDF file(s)Edinburgh studies in modern Arabic literatureTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 18 Dec 2019).1-4744-0740-4 Includes bibliographical references and index.Frontmatter -- Contents -- Series Editor’s Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction Prophetic Tendencies: Egyptian Translators of the Twentieth Century -- 1 Translation in Motion: A Survey of Literary Translation in Lebanon and Egypt during the Nahḍa -- 2 Plagiarised Prophecy in the Romantic Works of al-Manfalūṭī, al-ʿAqqād and al-Māzinī -- 3 The Hero at Home: Muḥammad al-Sibāʿī and Thomas Carlyle -- 4 Tarjama as Debt: The Making of a Secular History of Arabic Literature -- Conclusion The Prophet Today: The Novel in Distress -- Bibliography -- IndexConsiders the changing role of literary translation in Egypt from the 1910s to the 1940sIn this novel and pioneering study Maya I. Kesrouany explores the move from Qur'anic to secular approaches to literature in early 20th-century Egyptian literary translations, asking what we can learn from that period and the promise that translation held for the Egyptian writers of fiction at that time. Through their early adaptations, these writers crafted a prophetic, secular vocation for the narrator that gave access to a world of linguistic creation and interpretation unavailable to the common reader or the religious cleric. This book looks at the writers' claim to secular prophecy as it manifests itself in the adapted narrative voice of their translations to suggest an original sense of literary resistance to colonial oppression and occupation in the early Arabic novel.Edinburgh studies in modern Arabic literature.Arabic fictionEgyptHistory and criticism Literary translationsHistory and criticismArabic fictionHistory and criticism Literary translationsHistory and criticism.892.73609962Kesrouany Maya I1483984UkCbUPUkCbUPBOOK9910793358103321Prophetic translation3702415UNINA