quintet novel “cities of salt” is considered as a turning point in arabic story-writing literature. in this novel under the influence by story- writing modern stream, munif (1933-2004) has tried to create neology and innovation in some story artistic elements by being committed to some of arab story- writing principles. he tries in this novel to follow russian structuralists, particularly mikha...

literature severely needs innovation and renewal to exit from weakness and inanition mood and there must be a strong connection between renewal and literal- cultural heritage. the renewal must prepare context to create new literal genres in addition to utilizing positive aspects of other cultures. so, this type of renewal is positive. hadith of isa ibn hisham, essay of mohammad al mavilhi is co...

In this paper Taqi Modarresi’s life and his works are discussed briefly. He is one of the early Persian writers in diaspora who left Iran decades before the Islamic Revolution.  His novels have been published both in English and Persian. Azra-ye Khalvatneshin [The Virgin of Solitude], which was published posthumously in an English translation in 2008 and in the original Persian in 2010, both in...

Pericles Lewis, Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Yale University, is the author of Modernism, Nationalism, and the Novel (Cambridge University Press, 2000). He is currently working on two projects, The Cambridge Introduction to Modernism and a book on religious experience in the modernist novel, from which the essay in this issue is drawn. Churchgoing in the Modern N...

it is now generally accepted that the rise of the genre of novel required a kind of worldview as well as a philosophical theory of man which had not been in existence until recent centuries, after severe changes which resulted into modern civilization. novel and realistic novel in particular, is a genre dealing with individual man and his possibilities in facing with problems and issues of the ...

Ahmed Saadawi’s third and last novel Frankenstein in Baghdad was originally published in Arabic in 2013 and has since been translated into several languages, including an English translation by Jonathan Wright in 2018. The novel, which won the 2014 International Prize for Arabic Fiction, is a heart-rending story of a country blighted by an unending cycle of war, violence, and misery. Saadawi’s ...

one of the most outstanding authors and poets of algeria is kateb yasin who revealed his unfortunate country’s condition toward people. he has several trace of writing to french language in novel, poem and scenario fields. but spirit based on his work, mixing with islamic culture, is arabic spirit originated from aljazeera culture. the most important of his novels, which is a new experience in ...