Poetics of Love in the Arabic Novel

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Poetics of Love in the Arabic Novel is written by Wen-chin Ouyang and published by Edinburgh University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0748655050 (ISBN 10) and 9780748655052 (ISBN 13).

Considers the Arabic novel within the triangle of the nation-state, modernity and traditionWen-Chin Ouyang explores the development of the Arabic novel, especially the ways in it engages with aesthetics, ethics and politics in a cross-cultural context and from a transnational perspective.Taking love and desire as the central tropes , the story of the Arabic novel is presented as a series of failed, illegitimate love affairs, all tainted by its suspicion of the legitimacy of the nation, modernity and tradition and, above all, by its misgiving about its own propriety.