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1 online resource |
| Contents |
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Note on Translations and Transliterations -- Acknowledgments -- Preface: The Ethics of Reading -- Introduction. The Quʼran as (Inter)text: Embodiment, Praxis, Critique -- 1. Existential Poiesis in Maḥmūd al-Masʿadī's Mawlid al-nisyān -- 2. Carnivals of Heterodoxy in Abdelwahab Meddeb's Talismano -- 3. Apocalyptic Aftershocks in al-Ṭāhir Waṭṭār's Al-zilzāl -- 4. The Polyphonic Hermeneutics of Assia Djebar's L'amour, la fantasia -- 5. Tense Eruptions in Driss Chraïbi's Le passé simple -- 6. Threads of Transmission in Muḥammad Barrāda's Luʿbat al-nisyān -- Epilogue: Poetics, Politics, Piety -- Glossary -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author |
| Summary |
"The novel, the literary adage has it, reflects a world abandoned by God. Yet the possibilities of novelistic form and literary exegesis exceed the secularizing tendencies of contemporary criticism. Showing how the Qurʼan invites critical reading, this account of Arabophone and Francophone Maghrebi literature develops a Qurʼanic model of narratology"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Arabic literature -- Africa, North -- History and criticism
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North African literature (French) -- History and criticism
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Qurʼan as literature.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Middle Eastern.
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Arabic literature
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North African literature (French)
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Qurʼan as literature
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North Africa
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780823286379 |
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0823286371 |
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082328638X |
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9780823286386 |
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