The literary Qur'an : narrative ethics in the Maghreb /

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"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 Magh...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: El Shakry, Hoda
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Fordham University Press, 2020.
Subjects:
Arabic literature > Africa, North > History and criticism.
North African literature (French) > History and criticism.
Qurʼan as literature.
Littérature maghrébine > Histoire et critique.
Littérature maghrébine (française) > Histoire et critique.
Coran (Littérature)
LITERARY CRITICISM > Middle Eastern.
Arabic literature.
North African literature (French)
North Africa.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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-Masʻadī'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 Luʻbat al-nisyān
  • Epilogue: Poetics, Politics, Piety
  • Glossary
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • About the Author

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