National-Specific Features of the New Avant-Garde Egyptian Prose of the Late 20th Century

Rashida R El Sabruti

doi:10.5539/jsd.v8n5p19

Abstract

The fact is that up-to date there are no researches concerning avant-garde prose of Egypt aimed at defining its national-specific features, the prose is hardly known to domestic and western literary criticism. Therefore the object of the study is to reveal the best samples of avant-garde Egyptian prose, reflecting postmodernism esthetics and to show their national and specific features. At the present time the integrated method of the analysis of the literary text is of great importance. The main method of our research is a conceptual and contextual analysis of the chosen works of art from the position of hermeneutic and esthetic direction of philological researches. The results of the research show that modern Egyptian prose, mastering the intellectual experience of world culture within the frame of the national cultural heritage, revealed a new technique and brought new contents to literature. The innovation is defined by orientation of the authors to mythological transplantation of figurative system. There is a multilevel organization of the text, an encryption of semantic layers, destruction of a traditional subject basis. The materials of the article can be useful for the development of the manual on the world literature, stylistics of the Arabic language and translation practice.

Highlights

1.1 Relevance of the Dialogue of Ethnic Contents Culture with World CultureAccording to the most literary critics postmodernism became one of the leading directions in the world culture and the culture of the latest quarter of the 20th century (Kubareva, 2002)
The fact is that up-to date there are no researches concerning avant-garde prose of Egypt aimed at defining its national-specific features, the prose is hardly known to domestic and western literary criticism
The object of the study is to reveal the best samples of avant-garde Egyptian prose, reflecting postmodernism esthetics and to show their national and specific features

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Introduction

1.1 Relevance of the Dialogue of Ethnic Contents Culture with World CultureAccording to the most literary critics postmodernism became one of the leading directions in the world culture and the culture of the latest quarter of the 20th century (Kubareva, 2002). The features of postmodernism in the world literature were revealed in the 60s of the 20th century (Ilyin & Tsurganova, 2006). The writers of this school were oriented on perception of the world as the chaos. The prose of Egypt is the result of centuries-old Arab literary tradition. The Arab philologists note that the forms of the Arab prose have qualitatively changed (Kassim, 1994). They are far from a classical form based on substantial centers. In comparison with traditional paradigms, the existential organization of the art world became complicated (Abu Uf, 1994)

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