Midterm 1                     English /Arabic Literary Relations              Mon., Nov., 4,2002

 

Answer two questions:

 

1. How does Taha Husain describe the methods of teaching Arabic literature in Egypt before World War 1?

Where does he publish these views?

What is he accused of? Why?

Compare his views with Salama Musa .

Analyze how their views have participated to what is called ‘the battle for the                               

New’-ma rakat  al-tajdid- on one hand and the impacts of European literature,        

Criticism, and culture have influenced the study of Arabic literature –forms 

and contents-in Egypt.

 

2. Compare the image of the European women in Al-Hayy al-Latini and Qindil Umm Hashim in terms of genre of prose, symbolism, and writers (in detail).

 

 

3. Why and how were the new Arab poets fascinated by T.S.Eliot – especially of his views of culture, tradition, and ‘objective correlative ’ after Palestine disaster of

       1948?                                                                                      

       Use the following two poems to explain that influence.

       Who are the poets (in detail)?