Author : Roger Allen
Release : 2009
Genre : Arabic literature
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 414/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Essays in Arabic Literary Biography: 1850-1950 by : Roger Allen
Download or read book Essays in Arabic Literary Biography: 1850-1950 written by Roger Allen. This book was released on 2009. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays, which discuss authors in a variety of literary genres and across the spectrum of the region concerned-from Iraq in the East to Tunisia in the West-provide clear evidence of the gradually changing roles of the indigenous and the imported which are an intrinsic feature of the movement known in Arabic as al-bahada (cultural revival) and the way in which Arab litterateurs chose to respond to the inspiration that such changes inevitably engendered. --