Gibran, Rihani & Naimy : East-West interactions in early twentieth-century Arab literature / Aida Imangulieva ; translated from the Russian by Robin Thomson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

İmanquliyeva, Aida Näsir qızı.

Standardized Title:

Korifei novoarabskoĭ literatury. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Arabic literature--20th century--History and criticism.

Arabic literature.

Arabic literature--Foreign countries--20th century--History and criticism.

Arabic literature--20th century--European influences.

Comparative literature--Western and Arabic.

Comparative literature.

Comparative literature--Arabic and Western.

Gibran, Kahlil, 1883-1931--Criticism and interpretation.

Gibran, Kahlil.

Rihani, Ameen Fares, 1876-1940--Criticism and interpretation.

Rihani, Ameen Fares.

Nuaymah, Mikhail, 1889-1988--Criticism and interpretation.

Nuaymah, Mikhail.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (256 p.)

Other Title:

Gibran, Rihani and Naimy

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Inner Farne Press, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Originally published in Russian during the final years of the Soviet Union, this volume examines the influences of foreign literary movements, specifically Romanticism and Realism, on the three authors examined within. By viewing Gibran and Rihani's works in the light of English poets such as Wordsworth, Byron, and Shelley and American writers such as Emerson and Whitman—and by exploring Naimy through the lens of the Russian Realist tradition, drawing parallels specifically with the work of Belinsky, Tolstoy, Turgenev, and the Chekhovian tradition—this work provides an unusual window into the Arab world's cultural interaction with Europe, America, and Russia in the early 20th century. At the same time, it reaches beyond its academic scope and reveals universal elements that speak to all people and go beyond cultural frameworks altogether.

Contents:

Cover

Copyright Page

Contents

Foreword by Dr Afag Asadova

Introduction

Historical background: new Arabic literature and the Syro-American School

Studies by Russian and Soviet scholars

Studies in the Arabic-speaking world

Studies by Western and other scholars

Chapter 1: Arab émigré literature in the USA: origins and influences

Social and political life in Lebanon in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and the origins of Arab émigré literature

The influence of foreign literature on the Syro-American School

Chapter 2: Kahlil Gibran: the development of the Romantic method

Sentimentalism in Gibran's early works

The formation of Gibran's Romantic world-view and his assimilation of English and American methods

Romanticism as the fundamental method in Gibran's work

The Prophet: a new stage in Gibran's work

Chapter 3: Ameen Rihani and his role in the formation of Arab Romanticism

Rihani's Romantic apprehension of reality and his experience of the American Romantics

Romanticism in Rihani's story Jahan and short prose genres

Chapter 4: Mikhail Naimy and nineteenth- century Russian literature

The aesthetics of Belinsky in Naimy's views as a critic

The influence of Leo Tolstoy's world-view on Naimy's work

Fathers and Sons: Naimy's play and Turgenev's novel

Naimy's short stories and the Chekhovian tradition

Conclusion

Endnotes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-236) and index.

ISBN:

1-905937-39-3

OCLC:

679605531