الشرخ الحضاري بين الأنا و الآخر إشكالية الخطاب النقد العربي المعاصر

Abstract

The first point that attracts our attention in Modernism, and what followed it, criticize is that they have no definite definition because the definitions that are given for Modernism by the western thinkers and philosophers indicted that there was no agreement upon the concept of modernism in the West itself .Here we are care for modernism not as a literary direction, rather as a conceptual theory that does not interested in the creative movement alone rather it called for revolt against all the political, social and economic aspects .

This study tackles two aspects of the issues of contemporary Arabic critical discourse ; namely, the theory and the approach. Both are well-represented by two common trends: traditional and new. The former belongs to our heritage focusing on the possibility of re-reading all that has been inherited making use of the western approaches after having them adapted to the extent they can match with the contemporary mental and cultural Arabic vision.

The second trend has completely departed from the heritage. Moreover, it follows the western modernistic approach instead. It undertakes all western theoretical principles, mechanisms, and terminologies. The application of the modernistic western approach to the reading of Arabic literature as well as the innovation of Arab men of literature that have turned their literary work into a phenomenon which is a mere mimicry of the western phenomenon if not an appendix or an extension of it.

As a matter of fact, a critical theory should reflect literature and literary creative aspects since a literary theory of this type must be the gist of the features of the Arabic literature including its syntactic, stylistic and aesthetic components.

In conclusion, the present study is a practical attempt calling

for re-visiting the western literary critical approaches and making all possible use of them on the condition that one should reserve the identity of Arabic literature including its thought and aesthetics