Open AccessEpidemics and Literature (The Novel as A Model)
Author(s) -
Ahmed G. Naef
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
mağallaẗ kulliyyaẗ al-maʿrīf al-ğāmiʿaẗ/maǧallaẗ kulliyyaẗ al-maʻārif al-ǧāmiʻaẗ
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2709-1155
pISSN - 1815-3364
DOI - 10.51345/.v31i1.246.g141
Subject(s) - the imaginary , history , literature , sociology , psychology , psychoanalysis , art
The literature in general and epidemiological literature especially represents the reflection of the health status of society and the health crises that the world has witnessed since ancient times. Those epidemics were the engine for many authors and novelists pens in particular. Thus, many novels touched on those diseases that caused violent shocks in the whole world, which left behind them many tragedies that remain stuck in the global memory. Since the novel is the mostrealistic literary art, it took the initiative to be the most prominent literary art that dealt with these topics and dealt with them, whether they were stories transmitted from reality or imaginary that predicted the future.