COML 505.401: ARABIC LIT AND THEORY

TR 3:00-4:30            Fakhreddine

Cross listed with ARAB 432

 

This course will explore different critical approaches to the interpretation

and analysis of Arabic literature from pre-Islamic poetry to the modern novel

and prose-poem.  The course will draw on western and Arabic literary criticism to explore the role of critical theory not only in understanding and

contextualizing literature but also in forming literary genres and attitudes.

Among these approaches are: Meta-poetry and inter-Arts theory, Genre theory, Myth and Archetype, Poetics and Rhetoric, and Performance theory. This course is taught in translation.

Year
2018
Term
Course Level