Browsing by Author "Balat, Samah Mohamed"

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    The study of Andalusian �Muwasha??t�: a literary and artistic approach"
    (University of the Western Cape, 2020) Balat, Samah Mohamed; Saidi, Mustapha
    This thesis aims at presenting a comprehensive study, through which more will be learnt about the art of the Andalusian Muwasha??t. This is a study of their artistic structure, types, and poetic purposes. The art of the Muwasha??t was different in form and rhythm from the classic Arabic poem, because the Muwasha??t had multi meters and rhymes, and it relied on the musical rhythm. Besides, the poetic language of the Muwasha??t was based on both classical and vernacular Arabic. The Muwasha??t was invented by the Andalusian poets to keep pace with the musical development in Andalusia, the researcher will shed light on aesthetic methods, and the poetic styles that characterized the Muwasha??t as an innovative poetic art which had strong ties with the music and singing, and showing the impact of the Andalusian environment on the development of this art. The art of the Muwasha??t left a distinguished mark on the Arabic poetry and music, especially in the Maghreb and North Africa where a lot of musical schools and poets still pay a lot of attention to such type of that Andalusian art. The continuous interest in this art, until current days, strongly motivated the researcher to proceed with this study.
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    The artistic and aesthetic mechanisms of narrative experimentation in the novel "Jabalu Al-Zumurrud" by Mansoura Ez El-Din: A critical and analytical study
    (University of the Western Cape, 2025) Balat, Samah Mohamed
    This study is intended to highlight the artistic and aesthetic mechanisms of narrative experimentation, in the contemporary Arabic novel. It seeks to identify what experimentation is and what are its main functions. Experimentation is the core of creativity and its main catalyst, as it transcends the stereotypical and static aspects in the form and themes of the traditional novel. After all, the novel is the most extended and renewable form of literature. In the structure and content of narrative discourse, experimentation also intends to deviate from the paradigm, to depart from the authority of the sanctities, to raise questions, to destabilize the constants, and in so doing creates a new aesthetic thought. Furthermore, this study also aims to analyse the technical procedures that enhance the anecdotal text, through the analysis of Jabalu Al-Zumurrud "The Emerald Mountain" by the Arab female author, Mansoura Ez El-Din. It is a philosophical novel whose narrative component and anecdotal structure abound with aesthetic qualities, and it is a creative combination of realism and exoticism. It is also a counter-epic narrative to the classical Arabic work Alf laila wa laila (A thousand nights and a night), a novel in which, the narration, the nights and mystic contemplation are intertwined. From this point of view, this research further aims to discover the techniques of experimentation that shaped the narrative imagination and resulted in drastic changes in the narrative vision, scope, and structure of the Arabic novel.