Criticism of the story and the novel in the Journal of the New Culture Read some critical articles

Abstract

The first edition of The New Culture Magazine was published in 1953, making it one of the earliest scientific and cultural publications to exist in Iraq. It was also one of the first periodicals in the Middle East. Dr. Salah Khalis, the owner and editor-in-chief of the magazine, introduced the concept of innovation in literature and art, which led to the gradual expansion of critical models following the journal’s publication. The rise of narrative critique in Iraq parallels the spread of the art of the story in most Arab nations. The New Culture Magazine threw open the doors to this form's in-depth literary and aesthetic critique in its numerous orientations. Researchers often conflate the terms trend, doctrine, current, and school. The current trend is a methodical branching within a core curriculum. Many currents exist within realism, structuralism, semiotics, etc. Due to the rigour of the two preceding phrases, these terms cannot be regarded as synonymous. The space that literature occupied in the magazine's pages merited critical articles analyzing it. This research examines the most significant trends of story and novel critique in the New Culture Magazine since contextual tendencies were prevalent at the beginning of the publication's emergence. This is accomplished by tracing the movement of critical creativity in the journal during a period regarded as the most fertile for the development of criticism in Iraq. The research focuses on two directions: the historical, which derives from Western critique and has attracted much attention from writers and critics. It seeks to connect literature with its historical elements. Ghayib Tohma Farman', Abd al-Malik Nuri, Zuhair al-Jazaery, and others are among the names recorded in the pages of the new culture that have a significant presence in Iraq and the Arab world.