02777nam 2200565Ia 450 991081652840332120230802005316.01-282-00236-897866137955400-7486-5505-010.1515/9780748655052(CKB)2550000000105242(EBL)976901(OCoLC)801440855(SSID)ssj0000738785(PQKBManifestationID)12284620(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000738785(PQKBWorkID)10672396(PQKB)10019339(MiAaPQ)EBC976901(DE-B1597)615292(DE-B1597)9780748655052(OCoLC)1302163781(EXLCZ)99255000000010524220120306d2012 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrPoetics of love in the Arabic novel nation-state, modernity and tradition /Wen-chin OuyangEdinburgh Edinburgh University Press20121 online resource (305 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-7486-4273-0 Cover; Copyright; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; Prologue PRESENTING THE PAST: THE ARABIC NOVEL AND THE DIALECTICS OF MODERNISATION; PART I Mapping the Nation: Place, Space, Text; Chapter 1 NATION-STATE; Chapter 2 NATION-WITHOUT-STATE; PART II Love: Legitimacy of the Nation, Authenticity of the Novel; Chapter 3 LEGITIMACY OF THE NATION; Chapter 4 IMPROPRIETY OF THE STATE; PART III Desire: Arab Experiences of Modernity; Chapter Five DECOLONISATION; Chapter 6 MODERNISATION; Afterword THE FUTURE IS A FOREIGN COUNTRY; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEXConsiders the Arabic novel within the triangle of the nation-state, modernity and tradition.The novel is now a major genre in the Arabic literary field; this book explores the development of the novel, especially the ways in which the genre engages with aesthetics, ethics and politics in a cross-cultural context and from a transnational perspective.It takes love and desire as the central tropes through which the Arabic novel tells the tale of its search for form in a world mapped by conflicting ideas. As it falls in love with the nation-state, the Arabic novel flirts with modernity and lives uArabic fictionHistory and criticismLove in literatureArabic fictionHistory and criticism.Love in literature.892.73009Ouyang Wen-chin649057MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910816528403321Poetics of love in the Arabic novel4032096UNINA