Literary modernity between the Middle East and Europe : textual transactions in nineteenth-century Arabic, English, and Persian literatures
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Literary modernity between the Middle East and Europe : textual transactions in nineteenth-century Arabic, English, and Persian literatures
(Routledge studies in Middle Eastern literatures, 17)
Routledge, 2007
- : hbk
- : pbk
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Note
Bibliography: p. 162-172
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Providing a broad ranging and unique comparative study of the development of English, Persian and Arabic literature, this book looks at their interrelations with specific reference to modernity, nationalism and social value. It gives a strong theoretical underpinning to the development of Middle Eastern literature in the modern period.
Table of Contents
Introduction 1. The Literary Abacus: Transactions in Nineteenth-Century Arabic, English and Persian Literatures Part 1: Nineteenth-Century Arabian Nights' Biographies 2. Biographies of the Arabian Nights, An English Chapter 3. Modern Arabic and Persian Biographies of the Arabian Nights Part 2: Writing Travels and Other Transactions 4. The Inner Subjects of Arabic and Persian Travel Texts on Europe 5. On Nothing and Everything: Travel, Conversion, and the Transformation of (Ahmad) Faris al-Shidyaq, Arab Observer of Europe 6. Transactions and Translations: Hajji Baba Ispahani's Value Between English and Persian Readerships. Epilogue: Towards Critical Philology
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