Arabic Literature

Rebellion of narrative in the book of memoirs of Ahmad Ibn Bulleh (an approach to the extra-normative features of narration in memoir writing)

omid jahanbakht layli; shahram delshad

Articles in Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available Online from 20 March 2024

https://doi.org/10.22059/jalit.2023.353730.612634

Abstract

Memoirs are modern narrative types and have significant narrative capacities. In these works, narration is used with special shapes and forms, and in many ways it is comparable to the ... Read More

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Narrative Space in the Poetry of Maad al-Jubouri: A Reading of the Poem “Where the River Returns”

Hossein Elyasi; zeinab ghasemiasl; habib keshavrz

Volume 13, Issue 2 , July 2021, , Pages 69-91

https://doi.org/10.22059/jalit.2021.312356.612295

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With the emergence of poetic modernity, contemporary Arabic poetry moved from its own narrow framework to new open spaces. In fact, modernity unleashed poetry and made it benefit from ... Read More

The Element of Time in Muhammad Afifi Matar’s Poem “Uprooted Steps”

Hamed Poorheshmati; Shahriar Hemati

Volume 12, Issue 3 , November 2020, , Pages 119-142

https://doi.org/10.22059/jalit.2019.254687.611878

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Arabic neo-poetry is known for breaking down the traditional structure of poetry and extending its semantic boundaries by equipping the literary discourses with narrative structures ... Read More Arabic neo-poetry is known for breaking down the traditional structure of poetry and extending its semantic boundaries by equipping the literary discourses with narrative structures which enable the poet to show their creative imagination and aesthetic views towards objects. “Time” is one of the prominent elements of narration. Formerly, it manifested itself through the logical sequence of events, whereas nowadays narration time does not depend on this sequence and the narrator can change its structure through the interaction between different levels of time to avoid monotonousness. Muhammad Afifi Matar has paid special attention this in his poem “Uprooted Steps” in which, through forming a semantic bridge between present, past, and future events, we see a temporal overlap. This article seeks to analyze the element of time in this poem. It suggests that the poem has a fluid temporal structure so that inside time present, the past and the future are contained. In many cases, the poet does not narrate the events according to the order of their happening, but rather delays or even stops them. The functions of time in this poem are different, changeable, and intertwined depending on the context of the events. These events sometimes take a long time and sometimes happen in the blink of an eye to create a temporal overlap between the past, the future, and the present. Returning to the past in the context of the present sometimes depicts the unpleasant experiences of the past, and sometimes has epic and hopeful effects through the historical calling of non-narrative characters. The poem uses flashforwards from the beginning to highlight future events and to respond as early as possible to the reader’s curiosity about the future. The poet continously plays with the time of narration; to avoid monotonousness, he, with the aid of temporal paradoxes, fills the gaps in time past, informs the reader of future events before their happening, and sometimes interferes with the the passage of time.

“Arabic/ Persian image of other in two Persian and Arabic sample narrations e.g. Ahmad Mahmoud and Abdul Rahman Munif”

Yadollah Ahmadi Malayeri

Volume 3, Issue 3 , February 2012, , Pages 363-386

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This study aims to show the changes of the image of Arabic/Persian other in the novels of Iranian author, Ahmad Mahmud and Arabic author¬, Abd Al-Rahman Munif. In this comparative ... Read More

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Rebellion of narrative in the book of memoirs of Ahmad Ibn Bulleh (an approach to the extra-normative features of narration in memoir writing)

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Narrative Space in the Poetry of Maad al-Jubouri: A Reading of the Poem “Where the River Returns”

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The Element of Time in Muhammad Afifi Matar’s Poem “Uprooted Steps”

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“Arabic/ Persian image of other in two Persian and Arabic sample narrations e.g. Ahmad Mahmoud and Abdul Rahman Munif”

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