Download or read book A Critical Study of Traditional Themes in Modern Egyptian Drama written by Abdel-Hamid Ibrahim Abdel-Hamid Shiha and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is a growing realization that drama, since it first appeared In the mid-nineteenth century in Arabic literature as an imported genre from the West, has come a long way to identify Itself with the past cultural tradition of the Arabs. The aim of this thesis is to examine the rise of traditional themes which over the years have come to constitute an important part of modern Egyptian drama. In order to explain this process and its manifold phases of development the study has been projected in eight chapters. The first two chapters provide the general background to this thesis. Firstly, I deal with the dramatic elements in the literary tradition to be found in the maqamat and shadow plays in the heritage of Arabic drama in Egypt. Secondly, I present a general view of Modern Arabic literature, during the revivalist movement that was motivated by political and national considerations. Against this setting, I have dealt with the appearance of drama and the pioneering efforts made to establish it on the firm ground of tradition as well as the reasons for doing so. This early phase reached its climax in the poetic drama of the important poet Ahmad Shawqi, whose contribution as a dramatist has been evaluated through a critical analysis of one of his best dramatic works. It emerges from this study that Shawqi represents the natural mid-way link between the early attempts and later phase of the full flowering of Arabic drama. In the fourth chapter I have focussed my attention on Tawfiq al-Hakim as the dominant figure in Arabic drama up to now. Three major plays have been examined thoroughly in order to trace the influence of the Areb-Islamic tradition upon his drama, and to stress the natural and artistic fusion of certain elements blended from two seemingly incompatible cultures: the Occidental and the Oriental. The fifth chapter is concerned with an evaluation of the changes that occurred in modern Arabic poetry in order to meet the needs of drama. This is followed by two chapters which trace the impact of tradition on the themes of Arabic verse drama. The first deals with the Sufi tradition as revealed in one of the plays of Salah Abd al-Sabur, a prominent poet of the new movement of Arabic poetry. The second shows how a traditional historical narrative serves the theme of rebellion in one of the plays of Abd al-Rahman al-Sharqawi, a writer with socialist affiliations. Finally, Chapter Eight provides a critical assessment of the works studied above, and a discussion of some of the major problems facing Arabic drama in Egypt today. To this has been added an Appendix containing the resolutions and recommendations of The Arabic Theatre Conference, held in Damascus in 1973, under the auspices of the Organization of Education, Culture and Sciences, of The Arab League.
Download or read book A Critical Study of Traditional Themes in Modern Egyptian Drama written by Abdel-Hamid Ibrahim Abdel-Hamid Shiha and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Modern Arabic Drama in Egypt written by Muḥammad Muṣṭafá Badawī and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first critical survey of modern Egyptian drama during the period of its maturity from the 1930s to the present day. A discussion of the work of Tawfiq al-Hakim is followed by an examination of the less experimental plays of his successors, Mahmud Taymur, Bakathir and Fathi Radwan.
Download or read book Four Egyptian Literary Critics written by David Semah and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-10-16 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Modern Egyptian Drama written by Farouk Abdel Wahab and published by Minneapolis : Bibliotheca Islamica. This book was released on 1974 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Being an English translation of four plays: 1. The Sultan's Dilemma, by Tawfīq al-Hạkīm ; 2. The New Arrival, by Mikhāʼīl Rūmān ; 3. A Journey outside Wall, by Rashād Rushdī ; 4. The Farfoors, by Yūsuf Idrīs.
Download or read book Theses on Africa 1976 1988 Accepted by the Universities of the United Kingdom and Ireland written by Helen C. Price and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "...A MAJOR MILESTONE...INDISPENSABLE FOR COMPLEMENTING BIBLIOGRAPHIES OF PUBLISHED AFRICANA."--LIBRARY ASSOCIATION RECORD. Published on behalf of the Standing Conference on Library Materials on Africa (SCOLMA)--an association of academic & other libraries concerned with & actively collecting African studies material--this work contains details of some 4,000 theses accepted by the Universities in the United Kingdom & Ireland between 1976 & 1988, & provides a continuation of SCOLMA's THESES ON AFRICA 1963-1975. Theses listed cover all regions of Africa & all subjects, including fields such as Egyptology & Roman & Christian North Africa, usually regarded as falling outside the current scope of African studies. Contents are arranged by country, region, & subject. Author & subject indexes are also provided for greater accessibility.
Download or read book Authenticity of the Tradition Literature written by Juynboll and published by BRILL. This book was released on with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Conspiracy in Modern Egyptian Literature written by Benjamin Koerber and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2018-03-21 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the diverse uses of conspiracy theory in Egyptian fiction since the early twentieth century. Read against the historical and intertextual backgrounds of individual authors and their works, conspiracy theory emerges not as a single, rigid ideology, but as a style of writing that is equal parts literary and political.
Download or read book The Modern Egyptian Novel written by Hilary Kilpatrick and published by London : Ithaca Press for the Middle East Centre, St. Anthony's College. This book was released on 1974 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes a section on the earlier period, i.e. ca 1910-1945.
Download or read book The Use of Islamic Heritage in Modern Egyptian Drama written by Sami Salah Ali and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Short Stories of Y suf Idr s written by Kurpershoek and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-09-20 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Egyptian Drama and Social Change written by Dorota Rudnicka-Kassem and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Nasserist Ideology Its Exponents and Critics written by Nissim Rejwan and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Egyptian Theatre in the Nineteenth Century written by Philip Sadgrove and published by ISBS. This book was released on 2007 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using previously unexploited sources, Philip Sadgrove provides a comprehensive account of the early history of theatre in Egypt, from the time of the French expeditionary force led by Napoleon in 1798, to the British occupation in 1882. His study - now available in paperback - looks at traditional forms of indigenous Arabic drama, the rise of European theatre in Egypt, the first abortive attempts to create a modern Arabic theatre in the early 1870s, and the project for a National Theatre. Finally, the book tells the story of the émigré Syrian troupes which were to play a decisive part in establishing a modern theatrical tradition. The author also sheds new light on the role of the dramatist and nationalist James Sanua and other lesser-known Egyptian pioneers of the theatre.
Download or read book Drama and Society in Contemporary Egypt written by `Abd al-Muni`m Ismā`īl and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The present work does not follow the traditional way which favours a historica1 approach to the subject. Its main aim is to shed just sufficient light on Egyptian drama to show the correlation and interaction between Egyptian drama and society. Historical plays, which nay possess, as a phenomenon, a general social significance, have been excluded because they do not conform to this criterion. Neither do the purely "intellectual' plays as a group come within the scope of the work, though individual examples, if socially significant, have been dealt with in some detail. The criterion according to which plays have been selected and included is their individual significance which is always difficult to assess independently from other plays of the same author. It is with regard to this fact as well as to insuperable chronological difficulties, which often make it impossible to trace the originator of a trend, that the material was arranged not according to trends, but to individual playwrights. The same consideration justifies the prominent position accorded to Tawfiq al Hakim, who has made so many rovolutionasy experiments in the field of drama. Moreover, an arrangement according to trends would have resulted in the omission of many significant plays which for one reason or another, do not form part of a specific trend. In dealing the individual play, the contents have always been given, either in form of a short synopsis, or of a longer summary interwoven with snatches of dialogue and preceded or followed by an analysis of the types and characters and on evaluation of the merits of the play in question whenever it was deemed necessary. Should the manner in which the thread of the action is occasionally followed seem, at times, too meticulous, it may be justified by the endeavour to convey the atmosphere. A thorough treatment of the problem of originality and outside influence, which seemed very tempting, would have required too much space and has been strictly limited, as it represents the task of another thesis, The introduction to the thesis deals with the choice of an appropriate title and gives the general outline of the work. Chapter One describes the social, economic and political background of modern Egyptian literature. The conditions of life which prompted and accompanied the emergence of drama in contemporary Egypt are fully described in Chapter Two, and followed by a brief survey of general trends in Egyptian drama in Chapter Three. Chapter Four is entirely devoted to Tawfiq al Hakim's conception of equilibrium, exemplified, in Chapter Five, by three typical instances. Chapter Six and Chapter Seven. are a treatment of the change in social values, and the reconciliatory attitude towards social strife; as reflected in the drama of the same playwright. Chapter Eight deals with the conservative approach as represented by Mahmud Taymur. Chapter Nine contains the treatment of selected revolutionary plays by Nu'man 'Ashur. Chapter Ten is a treatment of Fathi-Radwan's political and symbolic plays. Chapter Eleven deals with two selected plays by Yusuf es -Siba'i. Chapter Twelve is a thorough treatment of drama and political unrest; it contains selected plays representing the call to "Look Back in Anger", as reflected in post-revolutionary drama. Chapter Thirteen and Fourteen show the reaction to the political drama in selected plays by Rashad Rushdi and 'Abdul Rahman esh-Sharqawi. The conclusions arrived at are summed up and briefly discussed in the final chapter.
Download or read book Modernism on the Nile written by Alex Dika Seggerman and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2019-08-13 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analyzing the modernist art movement that arose in Cairo and Alexandria from the late nineteenth century through the 1960s, Alex Dika Seggerman reveals how the visual arts were part of a multifaceted transnational modernism. While the work of diverse, major Egyptian artists during this era may have appeared to be secular, she argues, it reflected the subtle but essential inflection of Islam, as a faith, history, and lived experience, in the overarching development of Middle Eastern modernity. Challenging typical views of modernism in art history as solely Euro-American, and expanding the conventional periodization of Islamic art history, Seggerman theorizes a "constellational modernism" for the emerging field of global modernism. Rather than seeing modernism in a generalized, hyperconnected network, she finds that art and artists circulated in distinct constellations that encompassed finite local and transnational relations. Such constellations, which could engage visual systems both along and beyond the Nile, from Los Angeles to Delhi, were materialized in visual culture that ranged from oil paintings and sculpture to photography and prints. Based on extensive research in Egypt, Europe, and the United States, this richly illustrated book poses a compelling argument for the importance of Muslim networks to global modernism.
Download or read book Report of the Governing Board and Statement of Accounts written by University of London. School of Oriental and African Studies and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some vols. include departmental reports.
