Critical Readings in Modernist Poetry

About this book

Dr. Desouky Ibrahim is a former associate professor at the Faculty of Islamic Sciences at Ataturk University and Bayburt University in Turkey. This book is one of his distinguished research works in the field of modern literary criticism. The book begins by tracing the development of literary criticism across the ages, from the emergence of Arabic poetry before Islam up to the twentieth century. It then moves to reviewing the philosophical roots and epistemological shifts that established the emergence of modern critical methodologies such as structuralism, semiotics, stylistics, reception theory, deconstruction, and cultural criticism, focusing on how these methodologies entered Arab culture in the 1970s and 1980s. The book then turns to multi-methodological critical readings of the poetic text in the Arab modernist stage, benefiting from these modern methodologies suited to the aesthetics of creative language in that stage, aiming to add something new to the field of modern literary criticism. The writings of Dr. Desouky Ibrahim are marked by depth and originality, and this book affirms his prominent standing in the field of contemporary Arabic literary criticism.