Although more than a century has passed since the emergence of the short story as a literary genre in contemporary Arab culture, literary criticism still suffers from a noticeable inadequacy in keeping up with short story production. It has recently been observed that novel criticism has dominated short story criticism, to the extent that critics are said to have turned away from the short story, preoccupied instead with the novel. The publication of this book, "Narrative Evasion and Transformations of Meaning," comes as an indirect response to this neglect, which has led some to boldly mourn the death of the short story. It contains studies in which the author traces artistic phenomena in the stories of writers from Jordan, Palestine, and the Arab world, such as Mohamed Zafzaf, Mahmoud al-Rimawi, Jamal Naji, Al-Zahra Ramij, Najwa Kawar Farah, Samia Al-Atout, Gelnar Zein, Yousef Damra, Jamal Abu Hamdan, Juma'a Shanab, Mohammed Khalil, Mahmoud Shuqair, and others. This exploration confirms the authenticity of the art of the short story and its capacity for continuity, and even for surpassing and transcending, as a self-contained literary genre with its own principles, rules, rhetoric, and advantages, both in form and content.

• Author: Dr. Ibrahim Khalil
• Publisher: Alaan Publishers and Distributors
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Edition: 1
• Number of Pages: 224
• Dimensions (cm): 14.5 x 21
• Weight (g): 275
• ISBN: 978-9957-625-24-5