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Author: Kamran Rastegar
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2007-09-12
Total Pages: 193
ISBN-13: 1134094264
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is a comparative study of the development of English, Persian and Arabic literature and their interrelations with specific reference to modernity, nationalism and social value.
Author: Olszok Charis Olszok
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 2020-06-18
Total Pages: 338
ISBN-13: 1474457487
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAnalysing prominent novelists such as Ibrahim al-Kuni and Hisham Matar, alongside lesser-known and emerging voices, this book introduces the themes and genres of the Libyan novel during the al-Qadhafi era. Exploring latent political protest and environmental lament in the writing of novelists in exile and in the Jamahiriyya, Charis Olszok focuses on the prominence of encounters between humans, animals and the land, the poetics of vulnerability that emerge from them, and the vision of humans as creatures (makhluqat) in which they are framed.
Author: Beatrice Gruendler
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-12-19
Total Pages: 366
ISBN-13: 131783237X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book gives an insight into panegyrics, a genre central to understanding medieval Near Eastern Society. Poets in this multi-ethnic society would address the majority of their verse to rulers, generals, officials, and the urban upper classes, its tone ranging from celebration to reprimand and even to threat.
Author: Allen Webb
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2012-03-15
Total Pages: 252
ISBN-13: 1136837132
DOWNLOAD EBOOKProviding a gateway into the real literature emerging from the Middle East, this book shows teachers how to make the topic authentic, powerful, and relevant. Teaching the Literature of Today’s Middle East: • Introduces teachers to this literature and how to teach it • Brings to the reader a tremendous diversity of teachable texts and materials by Middle Eastern writers • Takes a thematic approach that allows students to understand and engage with the region and address key issues • Includes stories from the author’s own classroom, and shares student insight and reactions • Utilizes contemporary teaching methods, including cultural studies, literary circles, blogs, YouTube, class speakers, and film analysis • Directly and powerfully models how to address controversial issues in the region Written in an open, personal, and engaging style, theoretically informed and academically smart, highly relevant across the field of literacy education, this text offers teachers and teacher-educators a much needed resource for helping students to think deeply and critically about the politics and culture of the Middle East through literary engagements.
Author: Willis Barnstone
Publisher: Pearson
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 516
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis text ... gathers together a ... selection of representative, authoritative writings - spanning antiquity to the present. It combines extensive introductions, headnotes, and bibliographies with ... literary translations of ... contemporary and classic writers.-Back cover. In addition to literary texts, [this book] includes selections from religious and philosophical texts that have literary merit, such as the Old Testament, the New Testament, the Dead Sea Scrolls, Gnostic and other intertestamental scriptures, and the Quran, as well as Sufi poems and teaching stories.-Pref.
Author: Geert Jan van Gelder
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-04-04
Total Pages: 187
ISBN-13: 131783240X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKConsiders how Arab and Islamic culinary culture may be represented in literary forms. Scholars of the medieval Islamic period are keenly aware of the importance of food and wine as themes in literature. Van Gelder's witty and subtle approach teases the most out of texts as well as enabling the reader to enjoy a panorama of medieval Arabo-Islamic culture from a most unexpected, yet immediately appreciable, perspective.
Author: Akiko Motoyoshi Sumi
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 284
ISBN-13: 9789004129221
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis work deals with "wasf" or description which is one of the salient characteristics of the "qasidah" (classical Arabic poetry) tradition. It examines descriptive passages in a selected group of Arabic "qasidah" from different ages, with the motifs of horses, and bees and honey-gathering.
Author: Lara Harb
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2020-05-14
Total Pages: 321
ISBN-13: 1108490212
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhat makes language beautiful? Arabic Poetics offers an answer to what this pertinent question looked like at the height of the Islamic civilization. In this novel argument, Lara Harb suggests that literary quality depended on the ability of linguistic expression to produce an experience of discovery and wonder in the listener. Analysing theories of how rhetorical figures, simile, metaphor, and sentence construction are able to achieve this effect of wonder, Harb shows how this aesthetic theory, first articulated at the turn of the 11th century CE, represented a major paradigm shift from earlier Arabic criticism which based its judgement on criteria of truthfulness and naturalness. In doing so, this study poses a major challenge to the misconception in modern scholarship that Arabic criticism was "traditionalist" or "static," exposing an elegant widespread conceptual framework of literary beauty in the post-10th-century Islamicate world which is central to poetic criticism, the interpretation of Aristotle's Poetics in Arabic philosophy and the rationale underlying discussions about the inimitability of the Quran.
Author: Carl S. Ehrlich
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 523
ISBN-13: 074254334X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSumerian literature / Gonzalo Rubio -- Egyptian literature / Susan Tower Hollis -- Akkadian literature / Benjamin R. Foster -- Hittite literature / Gary Beckman -- Canaanite literature / Wayne T. Pitard -- Hebrew/Israelite literature / Carl S. Ehrlich -- Aramaic literature / Ingo Kottsieper.
Author: Shawkat M. Toorawa
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2004-08-02
Total Pages: 186
ISBN-13: 1134430531
DOWNLOAD EBOOKToorawa re-evaluates the literary history and landscape of third to ninth century Baghdad by demonstrating and emphasizing the significance of the important transition from a predominantly oral-aural culture to an increasingly literate one. This transformation had a profound influence on the production of learned and literary culture; modes of transmission of learning; nature and types of literary production; nature of scholarly and professional occupations and alliances; and ranges of meanings of certain key concepts, such as plagiarism. In order to better understand these, attention is focused on a central but understudied figure, Ibn Abi Tahir Tayfur (d. 280 to 893), a writer, schoolmaster, scholar and copyist, member of important literary circles, and a significant anthologist and chronicler. This book will appeal to anyone interested in Arabic literary culture and history, and those with an interest in books, writing, authorship and patronage.
