نحو جمالية عربية جديدة: تقاطعات مفهوم الحداثة لدى أدونيس والخراط وبرشيد

Mas'ud Hamdan's article "Toward a new concept of aesthetics in Arabic literature: Modern as seen by Adonis, E. al-Kharrat and Birshid" deals with dominant theoretical attempts to reach a new poetical perception of Arabic literature in its major forms. Main efforts in the fields of poetry, prose and theater began to develop since 1970s. The author first compares the leading streams of change with the traditional Arabic poetics, and than assesses the most important influences - eastern as well as western - that directed and shaped the basic new poetical orientation. The article seeks to trace in particular the common philosophical backgroud of recent theoretical challenges in the three types of expression. Thus, analysis concentrates on three of the most remarkable Arab creators/thinkers as representative of a wide group: the Syrian poet Adonis ('Ali Ahmad Sa'id), the Egyptian novelist Idwar al-Kharrat (b. 1926) and the contemporary Moroccan dramatist 'Abd al-Karim Birshid (b. ?). The author then uses his findings to shed light upon the main question the article raises: is it possible, by exploring the similarities between the poetical ideas of the three mentioned authors, to arrive at some general priciples for a new poetic poetic vision that may be seen as inspiring the current changing in the three modes of Arab literary art?