Arabic and Language Ideology Comprehensive Exam

Language Ideology

Michael Silverstein

______Cultural Knowledge, Discourse Poetics, and the Performance of Social Relations.

_______The Poetics of Politics: “Theirs” and “Ours.”

Living Memory: The Social Aesthetics of Language in a Northern Italian Town Jillian R. Cavanaugh

Language and Symbolic Power - Pierre Bourdieu

Language, Usage and Cognition - Joan Bybee

Arabic Language and Reading History

Arabic Sociolinguistics - Reem Bassiouney

The Written Word in the Medieval Arabic Lands: A Social and Cultural History of Reading Practices - Konrad Hirschler

The Calligraphic State: Textual Domination and History in a Muslim Society - Brinkley Messick

An Introduction to Arab Poetics - Adonis

Engaging Tradition in Modern Arab Poetics  - Muhsin Jassim al-Musawi

Arabic Literary History and Criticism

The Novel and the Rural Imaginary in Egypt, 1880-1985 - Samah Selim

The Genesis Of Arabic Narrative Discourse. - Sabry Hafez

Arab Culture and the Novel: Genre, Identity and Agency in Egyptian Fiction.  - Muhammad Siddiq

The Experimental Arabic Novel - Stefan Meyer

Iterations of Loss: Mutilation and Aesthetic Form, Al-Shidyaq to Darwish - Jeffrey Sacks

"The Narrative Craft: Realism and Fiction in the Arabic Canon." - Samah Selim

Egyptian Colloquial Poetry in the Modern Arabic Canon - N. Radwan

Primary Texts

الأرض - الشرقاوي

بين القصرين - نجيب المحفوظ

البيان والتبيين - الجاحظ

رسالة الغفران -المعري

الباب المفتوح - لطيفة الزايات

في حضرة الغياب - محمود درويش

رأيت رام الله -  مريد البرغوثي