METHODS AND TECHNIQUES OF DR. SHAWQI DAYF IN THE LITERARY CRITICISM

Ahmad Shawqi Abd Al-Salam Dayf (13 January 1910 – 13 March 2005), was one of the most influential 20th century Egyptian writers and intellectuals, and a figurehead for the Renaissance and the modernist movement in the Arab World. He had deep knowledge in the western literature and criticism. He became one of the towering personalities in Arabic literary criticism. In literary criticism, he largely followed the styles and methods of the great like Taha Hussain, Abbas Mahmud al-Aqqad and Mohammad Hussain Haikal.