
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