caa a22 4500 386324670 CHVBK 20180307111644.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e198902 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0041977X00023065 doi S0041977X00023065 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0041977X00023065 Cachia Pierre The development of a modern prose style in Arabic literature [Elektronische Daten] [Pierre Cachia] The Arab literary establishment of the period immediately preceding the nineteenth century had reached such stability in social status, such homogeneity in education, and such unanimity in cultural values that it was no longer searching for innovative ideas, and of its men of letters—poets and prose writers alike—it expected not originality but consummate skill in the use of words. The prose that it favoured was not only rhymed, but laden with tropes, especially those developed in the branch of Rhetoric known as badī, which concerns itself not so much with imagery as with verbal artifices2 (such as the paronomasia, the double entendre, the palindrome) of which by then over 150 varieties had been devised. Copyright © School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London 1989 Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies Cambridge University Press 52/1(1989-02), 65-76 0041-977X 52:1<65 1989 52 BSO https://doi.org/10.1017/S0041977X00023065 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0041977X00023065 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Cachia Pierre NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies Cambridge University Press 52/1(1989-02), 65-76 0041-977X 52:1<65 1989 52 BSO CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge