19th edition 2024-2025

literary studies and criticism

اللوحة للفنان : إبراهيم العبدلي – العراق

Hamid Lahmadani

Place and Date of Birth: 1950, Bouarfa, Figuig Province, Morocco

  • Bachelor’s degree in Arabic Literature, 1972
  • Diploma, École Normale Supérieure, 1972
  • Diploma of Advanced Studies (Narratology), 1982
  • Doctorat d’État in Modern and Contemporary Critical Methods (Narrative Criticism)
  • Head of the Unit for Contemporary Literary Criticism: Methods and Issues
  • Responsible for implementing a scientific programme supported by the National Centre for the Coordination of Scientific and Technical Research, Rabat
  • Member of the Editorial Board of Literary and Linguistic Studies (1985–1987)
  • Editor-in-Chief of Studies in Literary and Linguistic Semiotics (1987–1989)
  • Member of the National Committee for the Agrégation in Translation (1993–1995)
  • Member of the Union of Moroccan Writers
  • Fields of Specialisation: Modern and contemporary literary criticism, critical methodologies, literary theory, narratology, semiotics, stylistics, and reception theory.
  • Academic contributions: Participation in numerous specialised symposia
  • Several of his extended essays on “Levels of Reception of the Narrative Text” have been translated into English
  • He took part in supervising numerous university theses and dissertations

Major Works:

  • The Stylistics of the Novel: A Theoretical Introduction
  • Analytical Literary Translation (Baudelaire’s Poetry)
  • The Moroccan Novel and the Vision of Social Reality: A Structural-Genetic Study
  • Women’s Fiction in the Arab World: Origins and Continuities
  • The Vision from Within in the Structure of the Narrative Text
  • Women’s Narrative: From Monologue to Dialogue
  • Contemporary Literary Critical Thought: Methods, Theories, and Positions
  • Reading and Generating Meaning: Changing Our Habits of Reading the Literary Text
  • The Short Story in the Arab World: Structural and Semantic Phenomena
  • Literary Criticism and the Human Sciences (Study: Core Critical Approaches as an Interactive Entity)
  • Historical Criticism in Literature: A New Perspective
  • Narrative Criticism and Ideology
  • Textual Criticism and Reading Strategies (Study: The Spectrum of Narrative Structure and Its Dimensions)
  • Contemporary Psychological Criticism
  • The Real and the Imaginary in Classical Arabic Poetry
  • The Rhetoric of Historical Discourse (Study: The Historical Text as a Host of Diverse Knowledge)
  • The Structure of the Narrative Text from the Perspective of Literary Criticism
  • The Aesthetics of Communication (Study: Patterns of Temporal Construction in Narrative)
  • The Charm of the Theme: On Thematic Criticism in the Novel and Poetry
  • The Imaginary and the Fantastic from the Perspective of Literary Anthropology
  • On Theory and Practice: Studies in the Moroccan Novel
  • Women’s Writing: From Monologue to Dialogue
  • Full Ears of Grain (Study: The Arabic Novel between Reality and the Possible)
  • Skills in Analysing Narrative Structures
  • Towards an Open Theory of the Very Short Story
  • Novel Criticism between Psychology and Psychoanalysis