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Literary Theory

THE AUTHOR

BIOGRAPHY/AUTOBIOGRAPHY

DRAMA THEORY

EVALUATION

GENRE THEORY

HERMENEUTICS

IMAGERY/MYTH/SYMBOL

INTERTEXTUALITY

IRONY

LINGUISTICS

METRICS

MUSIC

MYTH

NARRATOLOGY

ORAL-FORMULAIC                                                        

POETICS/RHETORIC

POST-COLONIAL

RECEPTION THEORY

SEMIOTICS

STYLISTICS

TERMINOLOGY

 

  • Section on literary theory, in Shahrazad's Sisters, Shahrayar's Brothers (PAINTBRUSH Vol. XXVII [2001-2002): 501-24.

 

 

THE AUTHOR

 

  • Kilito,`Abd  al-Fattah, "L`auteur de paille," Poetique 44 (Nov. 1980), 393-405. 
  •  ----------------------, L'auteur et ses doubles, Paris: Editions du Seuil, 1985. 

 

BIOGRAPHY/AUTOBIOGRAPHY

  • Interpreting the Self, ed. Dwight Reynolds, Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001.
  • Edebiyat N.S. Vol. VII no. 2 (1997), on Autobiography, ed. D.J. Reynolds
  • Autobiografia y litteratura arabe (Toledo Translation School conference Volume, 2002): several articles in English (& French, Spanish, & Italian)
  • Suzanne Enderwitz,  "From curriculum vitae to self-narration> Fiction in Arabic autobiography," in Storytelling in  the  framework  of  non-fictional  Arabic literature, ed. Stefan Leder, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1998, pp. 1-19. 
  • Fahndrich,  Hartmut,  "Fathers  and  Husbands:  Tryants  and  Victims  in  some Autobiographical and Semi-Autobiographical Works from the Arab World," in Love and Sexuality in Modern Arabic Literature ed.  Allen,  Kilpatrick &  de  Moor, London: Saqi Books, 1994, pp. 106-15. 
  • Fernandez Parrilla, Gonzalo,  "Autobiografia y critica literaria en Marruecos," Oriente moderno XVI (LXVII) n.s. 2-3 (1997): 231-46. 
  • Nowaihi, Magda, Resisting Silence in Women's Autobiographies," IJMES Vol. 33 no. 4 (Nov. 2001): 477-502.
  • al-Raziq,  Fawziyyah  al-Saffar,  Al-Tarjamah al-dhatiyyah fi al-adab al-`Arabi al-hadith, Tunis: Matba`at al-Qafa', 1999.
  • Rooke,  Tetz,  In My Childhood:  A study of  Arabic  autobiography,  Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell International, 1997. 
  • ------------,  "Moroccan autobiography as national allegory,"  Oriente  moderno XVI (LXVII) n.s. 2-3 (1997): 289-305.
  • Sirriyeh, Elizabeth, "Rashid Rida's Autobiography of the Syrian Years, 1865-97," Asian & Middle Eastern Studies Vol. 3 no. 2 (July 2000): 165-178.
  • Wild,  Stefan,  "Nizar Qabbani's Autobiography:  Images of Sexuality, Death and Poetry," in  Love  and  Sexuality  in  Modern  Arabic  Literature  ed.  Allen, Kilpatrick & de Moor, London: Saqi Books, 1994, pp. 200-09. 
  • Writing the Self: Autobiographical Writing in Modern Arabic Literature, London: Saqi Books, 1998. 
  • Al-Zawak, Fawziyyah al-Saqqar,  Al-Tarjamah al-dhatiyyah fi al-adab al-`Arabi al-hadith, Tunis: Matba`at al-Wafa', 1999.

DRAMA THEORY

  • `Id,  Kamal,  "Madrasat al-tamthil `inda Stanislavski," Al-Masrah 3 (Mar. 1964), 10-13. 
  • Khafaja,  Muhammad Saqr,  "Al-Kurus `inda Euripides,"  Al-Masrah  1 (Jan. 1964), 8-9. 
  • Rushdi,  Rashad, "Al-Haraka al-mudaada li-al-waaqi`iyya," Al-Masrah 5 (July 1964), 6-7. 
  • Sirhan, Samir,  "Al-Hadath fi a-l-drama," Al-Masrah 3 (Mar.  1964), 32-35. 

 

EVALUATION    

 

  • Ajami,  Mansour,  The  Neckveins  of  Winter:  The Controversy over natural  and  Artificial  Poetry  in  Medieval   Arabic   Literary riticism, Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1984. 
  • Heinrichs,   Wolfhart,   Literary   theory:   The  Problem  of  its Efficiency," in Arabic Poetry:  Theory & Development  ed.  G.  von Grunebaum, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1073. 
  • Istayf,  `Abd  al-Nabi,  "Nahwa Tahdid li-Mafhum al-Naqd al-Adabi," Mawaqif 47-48 (Spr.-Sum. 1983), 162-167. 
  • Sham`a, Khaldun, "Muntaliqat fi taqyim al-ittijahat al-adabiyya al-mu`asira," Al-Mawqif al-adabi April 1973, 120-127. 
  • Stetkevych,  Suzanne,  "Structualist Interpretations of Pre-Islamic Poetry:  Critique  and  New  Directions,"  Journal of Near Eastern studies 42 no. 2 (Apl.  1983), 85-107. 

 

GENRE THEORY

 

  • Allen,  Roger,  "Narrative Genres and Nomenclature:  a  comparative study," Journal of Arabic Literature XXIII part 3 (1992): 208-14. 
  • Fusul VII, 3 & 4 Issue of Literary terms
  • Gamal,  Adel  Suleiman,   "Narrative  Poetry  in  Classical  Arabic Literature," in In Quest of an Islamic Humanism,  Cairo:  American University in Cairo Press, 1985, 25-38. 
  • van Gelder, G.J.H., "The Abstracted Self in Arabic Poetry," Journal of Arabic Literature XIV (1983), 22-30. 
  • ------------------, "Genres in Collision: Nasib and Hija'," Journal of Arabic Literature Vol. XXI no. 1 (Mar. 1990), 14-25.
  • Greis,  Ibrahim,  "`Al-Adab'  wa-al-ajnas al-adabiyya," Al-Karmil 6 (1975), 43-72. 
  • Hallaq, Boutros, "Transgenerique et modernite dans la litterature arabe," Asian and Middle Eastern Literatures, Vol. 4 no. 2 (July 2001): 157-66.
  • Khouri,  Mounah A.,  "The Prose Poem as a new form in Modern Arabic Poetry,"  Edebiyat,  reprinted  in  Studies in Contemporary Arabic Poetry & Criticism, Piedmont, Cal.: Jahan Book Co., 1987, 101-121. 
  • Monroe,  James T.,  The  Art  of  Badi`  az-Zaman  al-Hamadhani  as Picaresque  Narrative,  Beirut:  Center  for  Arab and Middle East Studies, American University in Beirut, 1983. 
  • Stetkevych,  Jaroslav,  "The Arabic Lyrical Phenomenon in Context," Journal of Arabic Literature Vi (1975), 57-77. 
  • Stetkevych, Suzanne Pinckney, "The Su`luk and His Poem:  A Paradigm of  Passage Manque," Journal of the American Oriental Society Vol. 104 no. 4 (Oct.-Dec. 1984), 661-678. 

 

HERMENEUTICS

 

  • Heath,  Peter,  "Creative  Hermeneutics:  A comparative analysis of three Islamic approaches," Arabica XXVI (1989), 173-210. 

IMAGERY/MYTH/SYMBOL

  • Abahsain, M.M.  "The Supra-symbolic Moth in Arabic Religious Poetry from the Late Ottoman Period," Journal of Arabic  Literature  Vol. XXIV no. 1 (March 1993): 21-27. 
  • Abu Ahmad, Khalid, "Al-Shi`r al-`Arabi:  hal huwa asl al-ramziyya," Al-`Arabi 305 (Apl. 1984), 39-43. 
  • Abu  Deeb,  Kamal,  "Al-Fa`iliyya al-ma`nawiyya wa-al-fa`iliyya al- nafsiyya li-al-sura: Dirasa fi al-bunya," Mawaqif 27 (Spr.  1974), 15-56. 
  • Al-`Allaq,  `Ali, "Modern Iraqi Poet's Personal Symbols and Myths," Gilgamesh 1 (Spring 1990), 51-56. 
  • `Asfur,  Jabir,  Al-Surah al-fanniyyah fi al-turath al-naqdi wa-al- balaghi, Cairo, 1974. 
  • Burgel, J.C., "The Lady Gazelle and her murderous glances," Journal of Arabic Literature Vol. XX no. 1 (1989), 1-11.
  • Musa, Munif, "Mithulujiyya fi al-shi`r al-Lubnani," Afaq `Arabiyya Vol. 12 no * (Aug. 1987), 52-9. 
  • Pinault,  David,  "Images of Christ in Arabic Literature," Die Welt des Islams NS XXVII (19 7(m 103-25. 
  • al-Qitt, `Abd al-Qadir, AL-Kalima wa-al-sura, Cairo, 1989.
  • Al-Ruba`i,  `Abd al-Qadir, "Tashkil al-sura fi shi`r Zuhayr ibn Abi  Sulma," Majallat Kulliyat al-Adab, Jami`at al-Malik Sa`ud,  Vol 11  no. 2 (1984) 599-658. 
  • Sells, Michael, "Like the arms of a drowning man: simile and symbol worlds in the Naqa sectin of Bashama's Hajarta Umama," Festschrift  Ewald Wagner zum 65. Geburtstag [Studien zur arabischen Dictung], Beirut, 1994, pp. 18-41.
  • Smyth, William, "Some quick rules Ut pictura poesis: the rules for simile in Miftah al-`ulum," Oriens Vol. 33 (1992): 215-29.
  • Stetkevych,   Jaroslav,  "Name  and  Epithet:   The  Philology  and Semiotics of Animal Nomenclature in Early Arabic Poetry,"  Journal of Near Eastern Studies Vol. 45 no. 2 (Apl. 1986), 89-124. 
  • Zeidan,  Joseph, "Myth and Symbol in the poetry of Adunis and Yusuf al-Khal, Journal of Arabic Literature X (1979), 70-94. 

 

 

INTERTEXTUALITY

 

  • Bauer,  Thomas,   "Formel   und   Zitat:   Zwei   Spielarten  von Intertextualitat in der altarabischer Dichtung," Journal of Arabic Literature XXIV no. 2 (July 1993): 117-38.
  • Ibrahim,  Abdulla, "Aspects of  Inter-textuality  in  Iraqi  Short Story," Gilgamesh 4 (1989), 63-70. 

 

IRONY

 

  • Draz, C.K.  "In quest of new narrative forms: irony in the works of four Egyptian writers (1967-1979): al-Ghitani, Yahya T.  `Abdalah, Tubya,  Sun`allah  Ibrahim,"  Journal  of  Arabic  Literature  XII (1981): 137-44;
  • Ibrahim  Nabilah,  "Al-Mufaraqah,"  Fusul  7 nos.  3 & 4 (Aug.-Sep. 1987): 131-41. 
  • Mehrez, Samia, "Al-Mufaraqah `inda James Joyce  wa-Emil  Habibi," Alif 4 (Spring 1984): 33-54. 
  • Qasim,   Siza  [=Draz],  "Al-mufaraqah  fi  al-qass  al-`Arabi  al-mu`asir," Fusul 2 no. 2 (Jan.-Mar. 1982): 143-51. 

 

LINGUISTICS     

                                                     

  • Alwahab,  Abbas  Sadik,  "A generative phonological analysis of one thousand and one nights," Majallat Kulliyat  al-adab,  Basrah  9 (1974), 1-24. 

 

METRICS

 

  • `Abd al-Hayy,  Muhammad, "Hawl iqa` al-shi`r al-`Arabi," Mawaqif 26 (Mar.-Apl. 1973), 77-79. 
  • Abu Deeb, Kamal, "Nahwa badil jidhri li-`arud al-Khalil," Mawaqif 22 (Jul.-Aug. 1972), 17-67. 
  • ---------------,  Fi al-bunya al-iqa`iyya li-al-shi`r  al-`Arabi:  nahwa  badil  jadhri li`arud al-Khalil wa-muqaddima fi `ilm al-iqa` al-muqaran, Beirut: Dar  al-`ilm li-al-malayin, 1974. 
  • Armistead,  S.  and Monroe,  J.,  "Beached Whales and Roaring Mice:  Additional Remarks on Hispano-Arabic Strophic Poetry," La Cronica XIII (1985), 206-242. 
  • `Ayyad, Shukri, Musiqa al-shi`r, Cairo: Dar al-ma`rifa, 1968. 
  • Borg,  Gert,  "A  Jahili Generation Conflict," Journal of Arabic Literature XXV no. 1 (Mar. 1994): 1-15. 
  • Corriente, F.,  "The Metres of the Muwassah,  an Andalusian Adaptation of `Arud (A Bridging Hypothesis)," Journal of Arabic Literature XIII (1982), 76-82. 
  • -------------, "Again on the Metrical System of Muwassah and Zajal," Journal of Arabic literature XVII (1986), 34-49. 
  • -------------, "Further Remarks on the Modified `arud of Arabic Stanzaic Poetry (Andalusi  and non-Andalusi," Journal of Arabic LIterature Vol.  XXVIII no.  2 (1997): 123-140. 
  • Frolov,  D.  "The Place of Rajaz in the History of Arabic  Verse,"  Journal  of  Arabic Literature XVIII no. 3 (Oct. 197): 242-90. 
  • Gorton, T.J.   "The metre of Ibn Quzman:  a `Classical' Approach,"  Journal  of Arabic Literature VI (1975), 1-29. 
  • -----------,  "Zajal and Muwassah:  the Continuing Metrical Debate," Journal of Arabic Literature IX (1978), 32-40. 
  • Halle,  Morris,  "On  the  Metrics  of  Pre-Islamic Arabic Poetry,"
  • Quarterly  Progress  Report  of   the   Research   Laboratory   of Electronics, No. 83.  Cambridge, Mass.: Massachusetts Institute of  Technology. 
  • Hitchcock,  R.,   The  Kharjas,   Research,   Bibliographies,   and Checklists, London, 1077. 
  • Jamal al-din,  Mustafa, Al-iqa` fi al-shi`r al-`Arabi:  Min al-bayt ila al-taf`ila, Baghdad: Matba`at al-Nu`man, 1970. 
  • Jones, Alan,  "Sunbeams from Cucumbers:  An Arabist's Assessment of the State of the Kharja," La Cronica X (1981-2), 38-53. 
  • Maling,  Joan,  "The Theory of  Classical  Arabic  Metrics,"  Diss. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1973. 
  • Al-Nattafi,   Muhammad  Dhayb,   "Harakat  al-rawi  fi  shi`r   al- Mutanabbi,"  Majallat  Kulliyyat al-Adab,  Jami`at al-Malik Sa`ud, Vol. 11 no. 2 (1984), 697-728. 
  • Palva,  Heikki,  "Metrical  Problems  of  the  Contemporary Bedouin Qasida: a linguistic approach," Asian Folklore Studies Vol.  52 no 1 (1993): 75-92. 
  • Al-Radi,  `Abd al-Hamid, Sharh tuhfat al-Khalil fi al-`arud wa-al-qafiya, Baghdad: Mu`assassat al-Risala, 1975. 
  • Sbait, Dirgham H., "Poetic and Musical Structure in the Improvised- sung Qasidih of the  Palestinian  Poet-Singers,"  Al-`Arabiyya  19 nos. 1 & 2 (1986), 75-108. 
  • Semah,  D.,  "Quantity  and  syllabic  parity in the Hispano-Arabic  Muwassah," Arabic 31 no. 1 (March 1984), 80-107. 
  • ----------, "Al-`Arud fi shi`r ghayr al-mu`arrab," Al-Karmil 11 (1990): 93-128.
  • ----------, "`Arud al-waraqah li-al-Jawhari: badil li-nizam al-Khalil?" Al-Karmil 14 (1993): 105-32.
  • Stoetzer,   Willem,   "Some  Observations  on  Quantity  in  Arabic Metrics," Journal of Arabic Literature XIII (1982), 66-75. 
  • ----------------,  "Sur  les  quatrains  arabes  nommes  `dubait'," Quaderni di studi arabi 5-6 (1987-88), 718-25. 
  • Weil,  Gotthold,  Grundriss  und  System  der altarabischen Metren, Wiesbaden: Harrassowiz, 1958. 
  • Ziadeh, Farhat J.,  "Prosody and the Initial Formation of Classical Arabic," Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt Vol. 106 no. 2 (Apl.-Jun. 1986), 333-38. 

 

MUSIC

 

  • Bencheikh, J.E., "Les musiciens et la poesie," Arabica 22 (1975): 134-35.
  • "Musiki," In Encyclopedia of Islam 2nd ed. (Owen Wright), Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1954-  .
  • Rowson, Everett,  "The Effeminates of Early Medina," Journal of the American Oriental Society Vol. 11 no. 4 (Oct.-Dec. 1991): 671-693. 
  • Sawa,  George  Dimirti,  Music  Performance  Practice  in the Early `Abbasid  Era  132-320  /  AH  750-932  AD,  Toronto:   Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies, 1989. 
  • Shiloah, Amnon, Music the World of Islam: a Socio-cultural Study, Aldershot, 1995.
  • Shura,  Nabil, "Al-Musiqa wa-al-ghina' fi al-`asr al-`Abbasi," Afaq `Arabiyya Vol. 12 no. 3 (Mar.  1987), 100-103. 

 

MYTH

 

  • Al-Dabbagh,  `Abdallah  Mu`tasim,   "Al-Ustura  wa-al-Adab  fi  al- nazariyya  al-adabiyya al-haditha," Afaq `Arabiyya Vol.  11 no.  9 (Sept. 1986), 98-103. 
  • Zeidan,  Joseph, "Myth and Symbol in the poetry of Adunis and Yusuf al-Khal," Journal of Arabic Literature X (1979), 70-94.   

                

NARRATOLOGY

 

  • `Abd  al-da'im,   Yahya,   "Tayat  al-wa`y  fi  al-riwayah  al-Lubnaniyyah  al- mu`asirah," Fusul 2 no. 2 (Jan.-Mar. 1982):153-72. 
  • Abu  Nadir,  Maurice,  Al-Alsuniyya  wa-al-naqd al-adabi fi al-nazariyya wa-al- mumarasa, Beirut: Dar al-Nahar li-al-Nashr, 1979, 16-59. 
  • Gamal, Adel Suleiman,  "Narrative Poetry in Classical Arabic Literature," in In Quest of an Islamic Humanism, Cairo: American University in Cairo Press, 1985, 25-38. 
  • Hafiz,  Sabry,  "Al-Bidayat  wa-wazifatuha  fi al-nass al-qasasi," Al-Karmil 21 Dec. 1986. 
  •  Kilito, `Abd al-Fattah, L`auteur et ses doubles, Paris:  Seuil,  1984. 
  • Monroe,  James  T.,  The  Art  of  Badi`  az-Zaman  al-Hamadhani  as Picaresque Narrative,  Beirut:   Center  for  Arab  and  Middle  East  Studies,  American University in Beirut, 1983. 
  • Peled,  Mattityahu,  "Mafhum  al-jamaliyya  fi  muftaraq al-turuq," Al-Karmil 5 (1984), 15-20. 
  • Schippers,  Arie,  "`Tales with a good ending' in Arabic Literature:  Narrative art and theory of the Arabic World," Quaderni di studi arabi 4 (1986), 57-69. 
  • Stern,  M.S.,  "Muhammad and Joseph:  A Study in Koranic Narrative," Journal of Near Eastern Studies 44 no. 3 (July 1985), 193-204. 
  • The Thousand and ONe Nights in Arabic literature and  society  ed.  Richard  C. Hovannisian and Georges Sabbagh, Cambridge: Camnbridge University Press, 1997.
  • Taha,  Ibrahim,  "Nizam al-"Tafjiyyah" wa-hiwariyyat al-qira'ah," Al-Karmel  14 (1993): 95-129. 
  • Toorawa,  Shawkat M.,  "Now You See Me,  Now You Don't:  Point of View and  the Embedded  Narrator  in  at-tayyib  Salih's  "Dumat Wad hamid"," Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt XXVIII (1991), 213-22. 

 

ORAL-FORMULAIC    

                                                   

  • `Asfur, Gabir, "Al-qalam wa-al-lisan," Al-`Arabi 435 (Feb. 1995): 73-77. 
  • Alwaya,  Semha,  "Formulas and Themes in  Contemporary  Bedouin  Oral  Poetry," Journal of Arabic Literature VIII (1977), 48-76. 
  • Bauer,  Thomas, "Formel und Zitat:  Zwei Spielarten von Intertextualitat in der altarabischer Dichtung," Journal of Arabic Literature XXIV no.  2 (July 1993): 117-38. 
  • William A.  Graham,  Beyond  the  Written  Word:  oral  aspects  of scripture  in  the  history  of  religion,  Cambridge:   Cambridge University Press, 1987. 
  • Monroe, James, "Oral Composition in Pre-Islamic Poetry," Journal of Arabic Literature III (1972), 1-53. 
  • Zwettler,  Michael,  The Oral tradition of Classical Arabic Poetry, Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1978. 

 

POETICS/RHETORIC

 

  • Abu Deeb, Kamal, "Studies in Arabic Literary Criticism: The Concept of Organic Unity," Edebiyat Vol. 2 no. 1 (1977), 57-90.
  • --------------, "Al-Jurjani's Classification of isti`ara," Journal of Arabic Literature II (1971), 48-75.
  • ---------------, "Bahth fi al-shi`riyya," Mawaqif 46 (Spr. 1983), 85-114.
  • Adunis, Introduction a la poetique arabe, Paris: Sindbad, 1985.
  • ------, "Ta'sis kitaba jadida" I Mawaqif 15 (May-June 1971) 3-6; II ibid. 16 (Jul.-Aug. 1971), 9-27; III ibid. 17-18 (Sept.-Dec. 1971), 6-10.
  • Ajami,  Mansour,  The Neckveins of winter:  the  controversay  over natural   and   artificial  poetry  in  medieval  Arabic  literary criticism, Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1984
  • `Asfur, Jabir, Mafhum al-shi`r, Cairo, 1978.
  • Badawi, M.M., "The Function of Rhetoric in Medieval Arabic Poetry: Abu Tammam's Ode on Amorium," Journal of Arabic Literature IX (1978), 43-56.
  • Blachere, Regis, "Vue d'ensemble sur la poetique classique  des  arabes,"   Revue   des   etudes
  • semitiques, 1938), 1 ff. 
  • Bonebakker, S., :Notes on some old manuscripts of the Adab al-katib of Ibn Qutayba,  the Kitab al-sina`atyan of Al-`askari & Al-Mathal al-sa'ir of Diya' al-din ibn Athir," Oriens 13-14 (1961), 159-174. 
  • Boullata, Issa J., "Adonis: Revolt in  Modern  Arabic  Poetics," Edebiyat Vol. 2 no. 1 (1977), 1-14.
  •  Al-Bustani,  Subhi,  "Surat  al-shi`riyya  wa-al-balagha,"   Afaq `Arabiyya 12 (Dec. 1987), 24-9
  •  van  Gelder,  G.J.H.,  Beyond  the Line:  Classical Arabic Literary Critics on the Coherence and  Unity  of  the  Poem,  Leiden:  E.J.  Brill, 1982. 
  • Haddawy, Husain, "Avicenna on style," Alif 1 (Spring 1981), 21-37. 
  • `Id,  Yumna,  "Fi al-qawl al-shi`ri," Mawqif 50 (Spring 1984),  71- 106. 
  • Hatim,  Basil,  "Rescuing  Arabic  Rhetoric  from  Neglect:  A  Text-Ligniustic  Approach," in Tradition and Modernity in Arabic Language  and  Literature  ed.  J.  M.  Smart, London: Curzon Press, 1996, pp. 293-301. 
  • Heinrichs,  Wolfhart,  The Hand  of  the  North-Wind:  Opinions  on Metaphor  and  the  Early  Meaning  of Isti`ara in Arabic Poetics, Wiesbaden, 1977. 
  • Isma`il, Sidqi,  "Fi al-bahth `an nazariyya li-al-shi`r al-`Arabi," Al-Mawqif al-adabi July-Aug. 1972, 14-15. 
  • Kemal, Salim, "Philosophy and Theory in Arabic Poetics," Journal of Arabic Literature XX/2 (1989), 128-147.
  • Kilito,  `Abd  al-Fattah,  "Sur  le  metalangage  metaphorique  des poeticiens arabes," Poetique 38 (April 1979), 162-174. 
  • Mansur, Munaf, `Aqliyyat al-hadatha al-`arabiyya:  Al-Bahth `an al- bu`d al-thalith, Beirut: Maktabat Sadir, 1986. 
  • Meisami, Julie, "Arabic Poetics Revisited," Journal of the American Oriental Society Vol. 112 no. 2 (April-June 1992): 254-68.
  •  Mubarak,  Muhammad Rida, "Al-Lughat al-shi`riyya fi qalb al-sira`," Afaq `Arabiyya 15 no. 12 (1990), 92-99. 
  • Munir, Sami, Malamih wahdat al-qasida fi al-shi`r al-`Arabi bayn al-qadim wa-al-hadith, Alexandria, 1979.
  • Al-Nuwayhi,  Muhammad,  "A Reappraisal of the Relation between Form and  Content in Classical Arabic Poetry," Atti del terzo congresso di studi arabi (Ravello), Naples, 1976. 
  • Sammoud,  Hamadi et Rachid Ghozzi, "La definition de la poesie dans l'ancienne poetique arabe," Poetique 38 (April 1979), 149-161. 
  • Sanni, Amidu, "Interpretations in a Theoretical Tradition: On Ita' in Arabic Poetics," Journal of Arabic Literature XXI pt. 2 (1990), 155-62.
  • ------------, "Did tarafa actually steal from Imru' al-Qays? On Coincidence of thoughts and expression (tawarud) in Arabic Literary Theory," Asian and Middle Eastern Literatures, Vol. 4 no. 2 (July 2001): 117-36.
  • n.a., "Al-shi`riyya al-`Arabiyya al-mu`asira," Afaq `Arabiyya 12 no. 12 (Dec. 1987), 132-6.
  • Smyth,   William,   "Early  Persian  Works  on  Poetics  and  Their Relationship to Similar Studies in Arabic," Studia iranica Tome 18 fasc. 1 (1989), 27-53. 
  • Somekh,  S.  "The  Concept  of  "Third  Language" and its Impact on Modern Arabic Poetry," Journal of Arabic  Literature  XII  (1981),  74-86. 
  • Stetkevych, Jaroslav, "Arabic Poetry and Assorted Poetics," in M.H.  Kerr ed.,  Islamic Studies:  A Tradition and its Problems 7th Levi  Della Vida Conference, Malibu, California, 1980, 103-23. 
  • --------------------, "The Arabic qasidah: Form and Content to Word and Meaning," in Euchariston:  Essays presented to Amljan  Pritsak on his 60th Birthday,  pt.  2, Harvard Ukranian Studies 3-4 (1979- 80), 782-85. 
  • Tahhan,  Raymond,  "Al-Ta`bir  al-lughawi  al-`Arabi--tahliluhu wa- bunyatuhu," Mawaqif 24-25 (Oct. 1972-Jan. 1973), 145-153. 
  • Tulayma (Talima`),  `Abd al-Mun`im,  "Al-Shi`riyya al-`Arabiyya al-mu`asira," Afaq `Arabiyya 12 (dec. 1987), 130-6. 
  • Von Grunebaum,  Gustave,  "The  Concept  of  Plagiarism  in  Arabic Theory," Journal of Near Eastern Studies, III (1944), 234 ff. 
  • Wadi,   Taha,   Jamaliyyat  al-qasida  al-mu`asira,   Cairo,  1982. 
  • Wansborough, J. "Arabic Rhetoric and Qur'anic Exegesis," Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 31 (1968),  469-485. 
  • ---------------, "A Note on Arabic Rhetoric," in Lebende Antike: Symposion fur Rudolf Suhnel, Berlin:  Erich Schmidt Verlag,  1967, 55-63. 

 

POST-COLONIAL

 

  • Hassan, Wael, “Post-colonial theory and modern Arabic Literature,” Journal of Arabic Literature   Vol. XXXIII no. 1 (2002): 45-64.

 

RECEPTION THEORY

 

  • Aqdad, Muhammad, "Al-riwayah al-maghribiyyah bi=sadad insha' al-qari'," in Muqaddimat/Prologues, "Le renouveau du roman maghrebin," 13-14 (Aut. 1998):119-25.
  • `Usfur,  Jabir,  "Bayna  al-sha`ir wa-al-mutalaqqi fi al-turath al-`arabi," Afaq `Arabiyya Vol. 12 no. 3 (March 1987), 76-83. 

 

RHYME

 

  •  van Gelder, Geert Jan, "Rhyme in Maqamat: or too many exceptions do not prove a rule," Journal of Semitic Studies Vol. 44 no. 1 (1999): 75-82. 

 

SEMIOTICS

 

  •  Abu Deeb, Kamal, "Al-Sima'iyya:  ahdath al-`ulum al-insaniyya," Al-`Arabiyya 334 (Sept. 1986), 58-62. 

 

STYLISTICS

 

  • Dayf, Shawqi, Al-adab al-`arabi al-mu`asir fi Misr, Cairo:  Dar al- Ma`arif, 1957, 169-171. 
  • Cachia, Pierre,  "The Development of a Modern Prose Style in Arabic  Literature,"  in  An  Overview of Modern Arabic Literature Islamic Surveys 17, Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh Press, 1990, 43-58. 
  • Al-Disuqi, `Umar, Nash`at al-nathr al-hadith wa-tatawwuruhu, Cairo: Ma`had al-dirasat al-`Arabiyya al-`aliya, 1962. 
  • Fakhr al-din,  Jawdat,  "Al-Shakl wa-al-Uslub," Mawaqif 51-2  (Sum-Fall 1984), 61-76. 
  • van Gelder, G.J., "Rhyme in Maqamat or too many exceptions do not prove a rule," Journal of Semitic Studies Vol. 44 no. 1 (1999):75-82.
  • Jali,  Mahrus  Minshawi,  Tatawwur al-nathr al-fanni fi Misr fi al- qarn al-tasi` `ashar, Cairo: Dar al-fikr al-`Arabi, 1986. 
  • Jubran, Sulaiman, "The Function of Rhyming Prose in Al-Saq `ala al- Saq," Journal of Arabic Literatrue XX/2 (1989), 148-158. 
  • Al-Makdisi,  Anis,  Al-Ittijahat al-Adabiyya fi al-`Alam  al-`Arabi al-Hadith, Beirut: Dar al-`Ilm li-al-malayin, 1967. 
  • ----------------,  Tatawwur  al-asalib  al-nathriyya fi al-adab al- `arabi, Beirut: Dar al-`Ilm li-al-malayin, 1968. 
  • Somekh, Sasson, "Al-Tashabuk al-lughawi fi `Yasin wa-Bahiyya'," Al-Karmil 9 (1988), 35-47.
  • Stewart, Devin, "Saj` in the QUr'an: Prosody and Structure," Journal of Arabic Literature  XXI pt. 2 (1990), 101-139.
  • Zahran, Badrawi, Uslub Taha Husayn fi daw' al-dars al-lughawi al-hadith, Cairo: Dar al-Ma`arif, 1989.     

                                 

TERMINOLOGY

 

  •  Problems of technical terms in literature studies (conference), report in Akhbar al-adab 254 (24 May 1998): 6-7.