المنهج النقدي التاريخي بين المفاهيم و الإشكاليات تحليل رواية "الكرنك" لنجيب محفوظ أنموذجا

Abstract EN

This article discusses a number of concepts and problems of the practical historical approach as an externally-oriented critical approach that depends on contextualization of various elements affecting the composition of literary works including environment, race, and time.

this research uses Naguib Mahfouz’s ‘Karnak’ novella as a model that enables deciphering particular concepts and problems in the approach.

this paper, which highlights the interaction between literary works and their historical contexts, concludes that the critical historical approach has proven its worthiness compared to other approaches in the literary criticism arena due to its rich methodological tools which are based on positivist and empirical philosophy but also characterized by objectivity that overcomes many methodological problems of the traditional historical approach.