2018 - 2019 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
0631-3320-01 | Classical Literary Genres | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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FACULTY OF HUMANITIES | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The course will deal, basically, with Arabic prose, the stages in its evolution, and its genres: rhetoric, letter, Maqama, anecdote, literary criticism, commentary etc. The course will focus on the structure and the content of the texts, with a special focus on how ancient Arab criticism treated the different genres.