R C Ostle
Biographic Data
| ID | 698286 |
|---|---|
| NAME | R C Ostle |
| GIVEN NAMES | R C |
| FAMILY NAME | Ostle |
| SIGNATURE | OSTLE R C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oxford |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1971 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Writing the Self: Autobiographical Writing in Modern Arabic Literature
The chapters in this volume cover a broad spectrum of autobiographical material and ranges in time from the 17th century to the present day. They include travelogues as a category of autobiographical writing, as well as a wide variety of the more traditional retrospective prose histories of the self. Edward al-Kharrat gives a personal account of fiction and autobiography. Novels, drama and poetry are all considered within the book's overall cover…
Abū 'L-qāsim Al-šābbī (1909-1934) Between Tradition and Modernity
The Romantic Revolution
Modern Literature in the near and Middle East, 1850-1970
Modern Egyptian renaissance man
The rise of political consciousness in the Arab Provinces of the Ottoman Empire in the nineteenth century has long been referred to as an era of rebirth or resurrection (nahḍa), and from its earliest stages this period saw a dual process of aspirations to political emancipation and creative waves of cultural regeneration. Thus George Antonius was moved to attribute the beginnings of the Arab national movement to the foundation of a modest literar…
The Romantic poets
It is not accidental that the rise of Romantic poetry coincided with a period of convulsive change which was to shape the lives of many Arab countries for most of the twentieth century. As a result of the First World War, the Ottoman Empire, which had been the most successful political system in the history of Islam, no longer existed. What had been the Arab provinces of the Empire in Egypt and the Levant became new nation-states in the course of…
Modern Literature in the near and Middle East, 1850-1970
Modern Literature in the near and Middle East, 1850-1970
Gilbert Grandguillaume: Arabisation et polittque linguistique au Magherb. (Islam d’Hier et’ Aujored’hui, 19.) 214pp. Paris: Maisonneuve et Larose, [1983]. Fr. 62
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The city in modern Arabic literature
A superficial consideration of the history of Arabic literature impresses one by the remarkable longevity of literary forms: a qaṣīda written by the pre-Islamic poet Imru'l-Qays and many of those written by Aḥmad Shawqī who died in 1932 are eminently recognizable members of the same species. The system of prosody as codified by Khalīl b. Ahmad (d. A.D. 791) was still very much in force, and the thematic divisions into nasīb, wasf, and madīḥ or hi…
Salma Khadra Jayyusi: Trends movements in modern Arabic poetry. (Studies in Arabic Literature. Supplements to the Journal of Arabic Literature, Vol. vi.) 2 vols. xiv, 360; vi, 361–877pp. Leiden: E. J.…
Salma Khadra Jayyusi: Trends movements in modern Arabic poetry. (Studies in Arabic Literature. Supplements to the Journal of Arabic Literature, Vol. vi.) 2 vols. xiv, 360; vi, 361–877pp. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1977. Guilders 88. - Volume 44 Issue 2
Studies in Modern Arabic Literature
"Mahmūd Al-Mas'Adī and Tunisia's "Lost Generation
Khalil Mutrān: The Precursor of Lyrical Poetry in Modern Arabic
Khalil Mutrān: The Precursor of Lyrical Poetry in Modern Arabic
"Mahmūd Al-Mas'Adī and Tunisia's "Lost Generation
Studies in Modern Arabic Literature
Salma Khadra Jayyusi: Trends movements in modern Arabic poetry. (Studies in Arabic Literature. Supplements to the Journal of Arabic Literature, Vol. vi.) 2 vols. xiv, 360; vi, 361–877pp. Leiden: E. J.…
Salma Khadra Jayyusi: Trends movements in modern Arabic poetry. (Studies in Arabic Literature. Supplements to the Journal of Arabic Literature, Vol. vi.) 2 vols. xiv, 360; vi, 361–877pp. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1977. Guilders 88. - Volume 44 Issue 2
The city in modern Arabic literature
A superficial consideration of the history of Arabic literature impresses one by the remarkable longevity of literary forms: a qaṣīda written by the pre-Islamic poet Imru'l-Qays and many of those written by Aḥmad Shawqī who died in 1932 are eminently recognizable members of the same species. The system of prosody as codified by Khalīl b. Ahmad (d. A.D. 791) was still very much in force, and the thematic divisions into nasīb, wasf, and madīḥ or hi…
Gilbert Grandguillaume: Arabisation et polittque linguistique au Magherb. (Islam d’Hier et’ Aujored’hui, 19.) 214pp. Paris: Maisonneuve et Larose, [1983]. Fr. 62
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Modern Literature in the near and Middle East, 1850-1970
The Romantic poets
It is not accidental that the rise of Romantic poetry coincided with a period of convulsive change which was to shape the lives of many Arab countries for most of the twentieth century. As a result of the First World War, the Ottoman Empire, which had been the most successful political system in the history of Islam, no longer existed. What had been the Arab provinces of the Empire in Egypt and the Levant became new nation-states in the course of…
Modern Literature in the near and Middle East, 1850-1970
Modern Literature in the near and Middle East, 1850-1970
Modern Egyptian renaissance man
The rise of political consciousness in the Arab Provinces of the Ottoman Empire in the nineteenth century has long been referred to as an era of rebirth or resurrection (nahḍa), and from its earliest stages this period saw a dual process of aspirations to political emancipation and creative waves of cultural regeneration. Thus George Antonius was moved to attribute the beginnings of the Arab national movement to the foundation of a modest literar…
The Romantic Revolution
Abū 'L-qāsim Al-šābbī (1909-1934) Between Tradition and Modernity
Writing the Self: Autobiographical Writing in Modern Arabic Literature
The chapters in this volume cover a broad spectrum of autobiographical material and ranges in time from the 17th century to the present day. They include travelogues as a category of autobiographical writing, as well as a wide variety of the more traditional retrospective prose histories of the self. Edward al-Kharrat gives a personal account of fiction and autobiography. Novels, drama and poetry are all considered within the book's overall cover…
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