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Midterm 1
Sunday November 5, 2006 272/51
answer Two questions : A
and another one
A.1-4 (
This question must
be answered by all students )
1. According to most critics Robinson
Crusoe ,1719,
is the first English Novel; what is the first Arabic novel ? By
whom? When published? Where written?
2. Does the Arab novelist in writing novels use the novel as a
western vehicle of literary expression ? Explain how he/she has
mastered and rendered it to his/her Arab,Islamic cuture? Refer to specific
novelists.
3. How has Taha Hussian criticized the Arabic novel whose writer can stand
comparison with any international
novelist? Which Arab novel ( and novelist) has
Hussain referred to? In which book has he expressed his views? When?
4. In G. Spivak's Death of a Discipline,
she sees that' the collectivity of the other' and of 'the same' is' only
vestigially described'. Explain her view in reference to Conrad's Heart of
Darkness and Salah's Season of Migration to the North .
B.
5-9
B.a
5.Who is Salama Musa ?
6.How does he related to
Ma’raket al-tajdid ( the battle for the new) and to the
western influence on
the Arab Culture and thoughts ?
7."What is renaissance” to Musa? What is his attitude
towards the classicists
and the innovators?
B.b
8.Who are the protagonists and
the antagonists or the villains in Masim
al-Hijra
ila al-Shamal and Al-Hayy al-Latini ?{ Analyze
the
Protagonists’ conflicts.}
9. Who is victorious in their conflict? Are the endings happy
in these
two texts?
C. 10-15
c.a.
10. Who is Taha Husain ?
11. What are his two different methods in teaching Arabic literature in
12. What is the text in which he
explains these two methods of
teaching?
13. Who had accused him of selling “
his soul to the European Devil ”?Why?
C.b.
14. Compare Kemal in Mahfuz and
Ismail in Haqqi in terms of first the
theme of
confrontation with the other,the woman , and second
traditions.
15. What are the images of the other – the European - in Mahfuz
and Haqqi?-
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