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MØNA1300 Litteraturhistorie og språkforhold i Midtøsten og Nordafrika

STEPHAN GUTH (IKOS)

Forelesning_04 – vår17

14. feb. 2017

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8 hovedperioder

(1-2) Før 1. vk.

kontemplativitet, ‘romantisk’ idealisme, sentimentalisme Muṣṭafā L. al-Manfalūṭī, Jubrān Khalīl Jubrān

tåredryppende (avmaktig) rebellion, anti-despotisme,

sentimentalt utrop al-Manfalūṭī, J. Kh. Jubrān

klassisisme, neo-maqāma Agnon, Muḥ. & Ibr. al-Muwayliḥī

tidlig nasjonallitteratur, landsbyliv => 29.feb./7.mars

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14. feb.

Klassisisme

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Muḥammad al-Muwayliḥī 1858?-1930

Ḥadīth ʽĪsà b. Hishām (A Period of Time, 1898 ff / 1907)

title, name of narrator, style: = direct reference to, and reverence

for, al-Hamaḏāni

but: no “trickster” stories, eloquence without key function

instead description/portray/survey of

– colonial Cairo

– fatra min al-zaman “Period of Time” (R. Allen) at the turn of the century

= assessment of >15 years of British occupation (since 1881) and

many decades of reform, advanced westernization:

Where were we when the reforms started (Muḥ. ʕAlī’s

time), and where are we now?

A growing city Cairo during the 19th c.

1888 L. Thuillier

Itinéraire de l'Orient

1806

M. Niebuhr

Ichnography of the city Kahira,

together with Bulak, Masr el Attike and Gizé

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Urban planning Cairo mid-1880s

Ismāʕīliyya

Old City

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Muḥammad al-Muwayliḥī

Ḥadīth ʽĪsà b. Hishām (1898 ff / 1907)

Neo-Classicism

asserts own Arabness ...

– ...against colonialism and British occupation (Lord Cromer) => political

– ...in face of increased Westernization => cultural

revives an (almost dated) tradition in order to prove that “own” cultural

equipment is sufficient to meet challenges of modernity...

...but only if reformed, adjusted to modern conditions

cf. roles of narrator (ʽĪsà) and (ex-)‘trickster’ (pasha)

– pasha: not dislikable, but ignorant, ridiculous in his old-fashionedness

(≠ eloquent pícaro of classical maqāma)

– ʽĪsà: convinced of many achievements of modernization and reform (human

rights, democracy, ...), is the pasha’s guide and teacher !

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”Hjemmelekse” til i dag (14.feb.)

TEKST

Shmuel Yosef Agnon, “Agunot” (1908)

introdusert av: Silje

BAKGRUNN

00-Reading modMEL = arbeidsarket

Allen1992_Period_Precedents (bakgrunn til Muḥ. al-Muwayliḥīs

A Period of Time)

Spørsmål

innholdsmessige og strukturelle kjennetegn i “Agunot” = ?

Wiki https://wiki.uio.no/hf/ikos/moena1300/

For kontroll http://folk.uio.no/guthst/MENA1300/

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Shmuel Yosef Agnon (1888-1970) Agunot (1908)

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Forfatteren

* 17.07.1888 Buczacz/Galicia (Ukraina)

1907 bosetter seg i Palestina

† 17.02.1970 Rechovot (Israel)

•regnes som viktigste hebraiske forfatter,

”God-like figure” (K. Grumberg)

•Nobelpris i litteratur 1966

•biografi → en.wikipedia

Novellen Agunot

•er første novelle skrevet av Agnon etter i

Palestina

•Analyse & tolkning (sammendrag) →

MØNA1300s wiki

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Pensum 21.feb.

TEKSTER

Moḥ.- ‘Ali Jamālzādeh, “Persian is Sugar” (1921) introdusert av: Synnøve

& Adam

Hayim Nahman Bialik, “The Short Friday” (1925) introdusert av: Sindre

BAKGRUNN

Daragahi1984_JamalzadehPreface

Brendemoen1989_TyrkiskSpråkreform eller Brendemoen1990_TurkishLanguageReform

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