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This course deals with studies that define the concepts of comparison, comparative literature, and influence, as well as the western schools of comparative literature. The course intends to highlight the prominent figures of the field of modern Arab criticism, not to mention highlighting some comparative literary studies between Arabic and other foreign languages, like the letter of forgiveness and Dante's Inferno and Lost Paradise, T.s. Elliott works and their impact on modern Arabic poetry movement, the impact of the French prose-poem on Arabic prose-poem, the impact of American free poetry on unrhymed free Arabic poetry, the impact of Jacques Prévert on Nizar Qabbani and others, the impact of Ernest Hemingway on modern Arabic novel, and the impact of Gogol on Arabic short story writers. |