The transformation of reality and the Arabic novel's aesthetic response

Datos Bibliográficos

ID7690053
AutoresSabry Hafez (SOAS University of London, autor de correspondencia)
Año1994
Volumen57
Número1
Páginas93-112
Fecha de publicación1994-02-01
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaBulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0041-977X • E-ISSN: 1474-0699
EditorialCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0041977x00028159
OpenAlexW2123738799
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas7
Referencias citadas2

The rapid pace of the change sweeping through the Arab world over the last few decades has profoundly affected both its various cultural products and its writers' perception of their national identity, social role and the nature of literature. The aim of this paper1 is to discuss the major changes in the sociopolitical reality of the Arab world, the cultural frame of reference and the responses of one of the major literary genres in modern Arabic literature: the novel. It is assumed here that there is a vital interaction between the novel and its socio-cultural context, in that novels encode within their very structure various elements of the social reality in which they appear and within whose constraints they aspire to play a role. Their generation of meaning is enmeshed in a variety of cultural, psychological and social processes, and their reception therefore brings into operation an array of experiences necessary for the interpretive act

Aesthetics · Arabic · Art · Context (archaeology) · Epistemology · Geography · Identity (music) · Linguistics · Meaning (existential) · Pace · Perception · Social reality · Social science · Sociology · Variety (cybernetics) · Computer Science · Education and Islamic Studies · History · Islamic Studies and History · Philosophy · Psychology · Socioeconomic Development in MENA

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