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The Aesthetic of Revolution in the Film and Literature of Naguib Mahfouz (1952-1967) / Nathaniel Greenberg.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Lanham : Lexington Books, [2014]Description: xxxi, 95 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780739183694 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0739183699 (cloth : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 892/.736 23
LOC classification:
  • PJ7846.A46 Z653 2014
Contents:
Introduction: The aesthetic of revolution circa 1952 -- Criminality and the public sphere: notes on a post-revolutionary aesthetics of film (1953-1957) -- The aesthetic of revolution in Naguib Mahfouz's Children of the alley -- The criminal inclinations of the good society: Naguib Mahfouz and the 1960s -- Partial politics: sectarianism and the new woman question in Naguib Mahfouz's post-revolutionary film and literature -- Conclusion: Mahfouz's wheel.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: The aesthetic of revolution circa 1952 -- Criminality and the public sphere: notes on a post-revolutionary aesthetics of film (1953-1957) -- The aesthetic of revolution in Naguib Mahfouz's Children of the alley -- The criminal inclinations of the good society: Naguib Mahfouz and the 1960s -- Partial politics: sectarianism and the new woman question in Naguib Mahfouz's post-revolutionary film and literature -- Conclusion: Mahfouz's wheel.

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