Philosophiae Doctor - PhD (Foreign Languages)

Permanent URI for this collection

https://hdl.handle.net/10566/9664

Browse

Browsing by Subject "Arabic Novel"

Now showing 1 - 2 of 2
  • Thumbnail Image
    Item
    A critical and an analytical study of sadeq ai-naihoum’s novel min makkah ilā hunā (from Mecca to here) deconstructive and structural approaches
    (University of the Western Cape, 2023) Hassan, Fakhri; Saidi, Mustapha
    Background: The novel is considered to be one of the most famous and distinguished prosaic literary arts in the current era, which makes it the focus and target of researchers, writers, thinkers, critics and scholars. Due to the birth of the Arab novel as a modern literary art at the beginning of the last century it was able to absorb the contradictions of Arab societies. Its birth was closely linked to the flourishing of the national awareness of Arab thinkers and writers, as it is considered a reflection of political, social, cultural and purely humanitarian patterns and conditions encompassing all its problems, concerns and ambitions. The novel, according to (Genevieve Idt, 110:1986) is considered to be an interconnected social institution, close in its connection with reality in all its economic, political and social forms. Georg Lukács is considered one of the first critics who offered beneficial and meaningful theorisation about the fictional work through his book "The Theory of the Novel" issued in 1920. He regarded it as an epic pattern which simultaneously depicts a number of human characters, as well as the social and natural environment in which these characters interact amongst each other, that is, it depicts life completely.
  • No Thumbnail Available
    Item
    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.