Arabic Literary Thresholds : Sites of Rhetorical Turn in Contemporary Scholarship

Muhsin Al-Musawi

ISBN 10: 9004176896 / ISBN 13: 9789004176898

Published by Brill Aug 2009, 2009

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Neuware - This volume, dedicated to Jaroslav Stetkevych, includes a number of original contributions that signify a rhetorical shift in the social sciences and Arabic studies. The articles and essays deal with Orientalism, classical Arabic tradition, Andalusian poetry, Francophone literature, translation, architecture and poetry, comparative studies, and Sufism. Literary production is studied in its own terms to situate these literary concerns in the mainstream of cultural studies. The outcome is a solid and highly sophisticated scholarship that makes this book one of the most needed among scholars and students of comparative literature, Arabic poetics and politics, Orientalism, Afro-Asian studies, East/West encounters and translation.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Arabic Literary Thresholds : Sites of Rhetorical Turn in Contemporary Scholarship
• Publisher: Brill Aug 2009
• Publication Date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9004176896
• ISBN 13: 9789004176898
• Binding: Buch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 241W x 160H x 23D millimeters 241 millimeters width by 160 millimeters height by 23 millimeters depth
• Weight: 658 grams

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Synopsis

This volume, dedicated to Jaroslav Stetkevych, includes a number of original contributions that signify a rhetorical shift in the social sciences and Arabic studies. The articles and essays deal with Orientalism, classical Arabic tradition, Andalusian poetry, Francophone literature, translation, architecture and poetry, comparative studies, and Sufism. Literary production is studied in its own terms to situate these literary concerns in the mainstream of cultural studies. The outcome is a solid and highly sophisticated scholarship that makes this book one of the most needed among scholars and students of comparative literature, Arabic poetics and politics, Orientalism, Afro-Asian studies, East/West encounters and translation.

About the Author

Muhsin J. al-Musawi is professor of Arabic and comparative studies at Columbia University, New York. He is the Executive Editor of Journal of Arabic Literature, and has taught in a number of Universities, including the American University of Sharjah, the University of Manouba in Tunis, and Baghdad University. His publications in Arabic and English are numerous, including The Postcolonial Arabic Novel. Debating Ambivalence (Brill, 2003).