كتاب (محاولات في النقد)‎ لمحمد محمد علي : قراءة نقدية

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Endeavors in Criticism by Muhammad Muhammad Ali is a significant book in the literary criticism movement in the Sudan.

It puts us with a talented, educated, and farsighted critic who is equipped with an appealing style.

This paper aims at showing the value of the book which has long stood the years; its introduction includes daring literary and critical articles characterized with seriousness and wit which the writer presented in the Sudanese press in the years 1952-1958 AD.

He tried to depict a realistic, efficient, clear, and transparent image of the Sudanese literature in a style that incorporates thought in a literary discourse that follows the standards of scientific criticism, powered by his extensive education and self confidence in his views that maintain truth.

He has not been underpowered by the great critics in the Arabic literature.

He had an original criticism of his own that expresses his ideas.

The study incorporates an introduction of the book, variety of its chapters, the critic's methodology in explaining his views, text analysis, and consensus of various viewpoints, resulting in a valuable original book considered as a product in criticism whose ideas and views still attract people for further study, analysis, and revision as if they were written just now.

The study ends with results that see Muhammad Muhammad's viewpoints a variety of criticism, criticism of criticism, in addition to the idea his book explores: criticism is a human effort that fluctuates from strength to weakness.

Finally, a recommendation for further studies explores those modernist thoughts that are transparent in the book, Endeavors in Criticism, and foretell his viewpoints in literary criticism generally.