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

"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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Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: El Shakry, Hoda
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: New York : Fordham University Press, 2020.
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Table des matières:
  • 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