Cover -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Foreword by Dr Afag Asadova -- Introduction -- Historical background: new Arabic literature and the Syro-American School -- Studies by Russian and Soviet scholars -- Studies in the Arabic-speaking world -- Studies by Western and other scholars -- Chapter 1: Arab émigré literature in the USA: origins and influences -- Social and political life in Lebanon in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and the origins of Arab émigré literature -- The influence of foreign literature on the Syro-American School -- Chapter 2: Kahlil Gibran: the development of the Romantic method -- Introduction -- Sentimentalism in Gibran's early works -- The formation of Gibran's Romantic world-view and his assimilation of English and American methods -- Romanticism as the fundamental method in Gibran's work -- The Prophet: a new stage in Gibran's work -- Chapter 3: Ameen Rihani and his role in the formation of Arab Romanticism -- Introduction -- Rihani's Romantic apprehension of reality and his experience of the American Romantics -- Romanticism in Rihani's story Jahan and short prose genres -- Chapter 4: Mikhail Naimy and nineteenth- century Russian literature -- Introduction -- The aesthetics of Belinsky in Naimy's views as a critic -- The influence of Leo Tolstoy's world-view on Naimy's work -- Fathers and Sons: Naimy's play and Turgenev's novel -- Naimy's short stories and the Chekhovian tradition -- Conclusion -- Endnotes -- Bibliography -- Index.