Modern Arabic Literature by Badawi, Muhammad Mustafa ; editor : - (1992)

Minor wear. Pages 401-432 bound upside-down. VG. Arabic Literary History Cambridge University Press Cambridge (1992) orig. boards 24x16cm, xi,571 pp., Series: The Cambridge History of Arabic Literature. Weighs 1100 grams. Contents: The background / M. M. Badawi -- Translations and adaptations, 1834-1914 / Pierre Cachia -- The neo-classical Arabic poets / S. Somekh -- The romantic poets / R.C. Ostle -- Modernist poetry in Arabic / Salma Khadra Jayyusi -- The beginnings of the Arabic novel / Roger Allen -- The mature Arabic novel outside Egypt / Roger Allen -- The Egyptian novel from Zaynab to 1980 / Hilary Kilpatrick -- The modern Arabic short story / Sabry Hafez -- Arabic drama : early developments / M. M. Badawi -- Arabic drama since the thirties / Ali Al-Raí -- The prose stylists / Pierre Cachia -- The critics / Pierre Cachia -- Arab women writers / Miriam Cooke -- Poetry in the vernacular / Marilyn Booth.