The Modern Subject Sensing its Agency: Khalīl al-Khūrī’s Aesthetics of “Truth Mingled with Passion”

In the introduction to what is often labelled “the first Arabic novel”, Khalīl al-Khūrī’s Way, idhan lastu bi-Ifranjī (1859), the author not only criticises contemporary Westernisation, but also outlines a new aesthetics that integrates authenticity, logical plausibility, and passion (hawas). This a...

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Main Author: Guth, Stephan 1958- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 2022
In: Die Welt des Islams
Year: 2022, Volume: 62, Issue: 3/4, Pages: 449-476
Further subjects:B nahḍa and emotion / passion
B plot narratives
B temporalisation
B emerging subjectivity
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