title: City as an Art Space in Modern Arabic Prose
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metadata.value: Shuyskaya, Natalia M.
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metadata.value: Jakovenko, Ella V.
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metadata.value: 2023-08-10T20:16:06Z
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metadata.value: 2023-08-10T20:16:06Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2023-03
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metadata.value: Shuyskaya N. M., Jakovenko E. V. City as an Art Space in Modern Arabic Prose. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Asian and African Studies, 2023, vol. 15, issue 1, pp. 100–117. https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu13.2023.107 (In Russian)
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu13.2023.107
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/43728
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metadata.value: To study the stated topic, we considered it appropriate to draw on the textual material of two
  works of modern Arabic-language literature in the genre of the novel, written by masters of
  the word, well-known not only to the reading audience of the Arab countries, but also foreign ones. These are “Frankenstein in Baghdad” (2013) by Iraqi writer ’Ahmad Sa‘adawi and “Incredible
  novel. Damascus Mosaic” (1997) by the Syrian-Lebanese writer Gada as-Samman.
  The text of “Frankenstein…” will be studied most fully, the other novel — in part. Exploring
  the question of how artistic space is depicted in modern Arabic-language prose, the authors
  of the article point out that the theme of space and time has not gone out of sight of scientists
  and thinkers for more than one hundred years. Representatives of various sciences, including
  philologists, show interest in it. The contribution to the development of this topic by
  M. M. Bakhtin, Yu. M. Lotman and others. Attention is drawn to a large arsenal of terms and
  concepts used by philologists in its study. The novel by ’Ahmad Sa‘adawi, who became the winner
  of the “Arab Booker” in 2014, the authors made the subject of particularly close attention.
  The artistic space in it is depicted most voluminously — in its toponymic, color, acoustic, odor
  characteristics, which allows the reader to create a visible image of the environment where the
  characters live and act, as well as get an idea of the situation not only in the described locus —
  Baghdad, but also in the country as a whole, and at a critical period in its history. The textual
  material of the novel G. as-Samman considered from the point of view of the locus-character
  correlation, deepens and clarifies the reader’s and philological understanding of the artistic
  space. It is concluded that modern Arabic writers pay considerable attention to the image of
  artistic space, use its various references, due to which this image appears capacious and realistic.
  This achieves the goal of the masters of the artistic word — to convey the truth about their
  country and its people, to draw attention to the tragedy of their current situation.
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metadata.value: ru
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metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Asian and African Studies;Volume 15; Issue 1
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: space
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: locus
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: topos
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: house
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Baghdad
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: place names
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Iraqi novel
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metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: City as an Art Space in Modern Arabic Prose
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metadata.value: Article
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