TY - BOOK ID - 80815850 TI - Poetics of Love in the Arabic Novel PY - 2022 SN - 9780748655052 0748655050 9780748655069 0748655069 0748655077 9780748655076 9780748655076 9780748642731 0748642730 1282002368 9781282002364 9786613795540 6613795542 PB - Edinburgh DB - UniCat KW - Arabic fiction KW - Love in literature. KW - History and criticism. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:80815850 AB - Considers the Arabic novel within the triangle of the nation-state, modernity and tradition.The novel is now a major genre in the Arabic literary field; this book explores the development of the novel, especially the ways in which the genre engages with aesthetics, ethics and politics in a cross-cultural context and from a transnational perspective.It takes love and desire as the central tropes through which the Arabic novel tells the tale of its search for form in a world mapped by conflicting ideas. As it falls in love with the nation-state, the Arabic novel flirts with modernity and lives u ER -