The literary Qurʾan: 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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1. Verfasser: El Shakry, Hoda (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York Fordham University Press 2020
Ausgabe:First edition
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Zusammenfassung:"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 Maghrebi literature develops a Qurʼanic model of narratology"--
Beschreibung:xviii, 235 pages 23 cm
ISBN:9780823286355