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Arabic/English Literary
Relations 272/1 Midterm 1
Answer one Part either A or B :
Part A
Answer all these seven (7) questions in detail .
A1:
a.1.1.Who is Salama Musa ?
2.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 ?
3. “ What is renaissance” to him? What
is his attitude towards the classicists
and
the innovators?
A2:
a.2.4. Who
are the protagonists and the antagonists in Masim
al-Hijra
ila al-Shamal and Al-Hayy
al-Latini ?{ Analyze the
Protagonists’ conflicts.}
5.Who
is victorious in their conflict? Are the endings happy in these
two texts?
6.What type of literary
genre ( Drama , Poetry , or the like ) are these
texts? Explain why ?
7. Analyze the relationships between the settings and the
titles in the
two texts
Part B
Answer all these nine
(9) questions in detail.
B1
b1.1.Who is Taha Husain
?
2.What are his two different methods in teaching Arabic
literature in
3.What is the text in which he explains these two methods
of
teaching?
4.Who had accused him of
selling “ his soul to the European Devil ”?Why?
5.Why does Taha Husain see Mahfuz’s novel “ can stand
comparison with the work of whatever
international novelists”?
In which book does he write this view?
What is the title of this
novel
mentioned by Taha Husain ?
What is your own point of
view of this
novel ?
B2
b2.6. Compare
Kemal in Mahfuz and Ismail in Haqqi in terms of the
theme of
confrontation with the other-the woman ,
traditions ,
and the West?
7.What Type of genre ( Drama , Poetry , or the like) are
these texts ?
Why?
8.What are the images of the other – the European - in Mahfuz
and Haqqi?-
9.How do the settings of these texts help to present the
theme of the
individuals’ search for identity ?
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