A Semiotic Representation of Arabic Literature

Ibrahim Taha (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

312 Seiten

2025 | Unabridged edition
Cambridge Scholars Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-0364-5722-8 (ISBN)

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Arab writers have no other option but to deal with their harsh reality, shaped by non-stop wars, both as individuals and as a national collective. The differences between them are associated with the ways they represent their respective severe realities. This book continues the semiotic approach to literature, according to which literature is the art of representation. By this I mean that the whole "truth" is not limited to textual reality itself, but could be hidden in the way it is re-presented in a text. Semiotic representation is a productive approach, meant to produce meanings from techniques, devices, styles, structures, forms, modes and genres. Semiotics seems to be the most efficient discipline to connect "form" and "content" in a productive way. The key semiotic term involved in this insight is representation. We thus ask: How can we understand the way Arabic literature represents its agenda, whatever that may be?

Ibrahim Taha (b. 1960) is (full) Prof of literary semiotics and Arabic literature at the University of Haifa, Israel. His principle research areas include a variety of interests: semiotics, anthroposemiotics and theory of literature, comparative literature, heroism in literature, Arabic literature, Palestinian literature, Arabic feminist literature and Arabic minimalist literature. His books and monographs include: The Palestinian Novel: A Communication Study (2002); Arabic Minimalist Story: Genre, Politics and Poetics in the Self-colonial Era (2009); Brevity in Rhetoric and Holy Quran (2012) [Arabic]; Heroizability: An Anthroposemiotic Theory of Literary Characters (2015) and The Capture of Meaning: An Introduction to Composite Semiotics in Arabic Discourse (2022) [Arabic].

Erscheinungsdatum	04.11.2025
Verlagsort	Newcastle upon Tyne
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 212 mm
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-0364-5722-2 / 1036457222
ISBN-13	978-1-0364-5722-8 / 9781036457228
Zustand	Neuware