Arabic Literary Thresholds

Author : Muḥsin JÅasim MÅusawÅi,Muḥsin Jāsim Mūsawī
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004176898

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Arabic Literary Thresholds by Muḥsin JÅasim MÅusawÅi,Muḥsin Jāsim Mūsawī Pdf

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.

Author : Adam Talib
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2018-01-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004350533

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How Do You Say “Epigram” in Arabic?: Literary History at the Limits of Comparison by Adam Talib Pdf

How Do You Say “Epigram” in Arabic? is the first study of one of the most popular and enduring genres in the history of Arabic poetry, the maqṭūʿah, and a contribution toward a decolonized comparative literature.

Author : Geert Jan van Gelder
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780814771204

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Classical Arabic Literature by Geert Jan van Gelder Pdf

A major translation achievement, this anthology presents a rich assortment of classical Arabic poems and literary prose, from pre-Islamic times until the eighteenth century, with short introductions to guide non-specialist students and informative endnotes and bibliography for advanced scholars. Both entertaining and informative, Classical Arabic Literature ranges from the early Bedouin poems with their evocation of desert life to refined urban lyrical verse, from tender love poetry to sonorous eulogy and vicious lampoon, and from the heights of mystical rapture to the frivolity of comic verse. Prose selections include anecdotes, entertaining or edifying tales and parables, a fairy-tale, a bawdy story, samples of literary criticism, and much more. With this anthology, distinguished Arabist Geert Jan van Gelder brings together well-known texts as well as less familiar pieces new even to scholars. Classical Arabic Literature reveals the rich variety of pre-modern Arabic social and cultural life, where secular texts flourished alongside religious ones. This masterful anthology introduces this vibrant literary heritage—including pieces translated into English for the first time—to a wide spectrum of new readers. An English-only edition.

Author : G. J. H. Van Gelder
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9004068546

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Beyond the Line by G. J. H. Van Gelder Pdf

Author : Reuven Snir
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2017-06-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781474420532

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Modern Arabic Literature by Reuven Snir Pdf

The study of Arabic literature is blossoming. This book provides a comprehensive theoretical framework to help research this highly prolific and diverse production of contemporary literary texts. Based on the achievements of historical poetics, in particular those of Russian formalism and its theoretical legacy, this framework offers flexible, transparent, and unbiased tools to understand the relevant contexts within the literary system. The aim is to enhance our understanding of Arabic literature, throw light on areas of literary production that traditionally have been neglected, and stimulate others to take up the fascinating challenge of mapping out and exploring them.

Author : Muhsin J. al-Musawi
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 437 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2021-08-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108474856

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The Arabian Nights in Contemporary World Cultures by Muhsin J. al-Musawi Pdf

A rich and nuanced study of the Arabian Nights in world cultures, analysing the celebration, appropriation, and translation of the stories over time.

Author : Iman Mersal
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2022-10-18
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780374604288

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The Threshold by Iman Mersal Pdf

A selection of luminous, fiercely intelligent verse from Egypt’s premier poet. Iman Mersal is Egypt’s—indeed, the Arab world’s—great outsider poet. Over the past three decades, she has crafted a voice that is ferocious and tender, street-smart and vulnerable. Her early work captures the energies of Cairo’s legendary literary bohème, a home for “Lovers of cheap weed and awkward confessions / Anti-State agitators” and “People like me.” These are poems of wit and rage, freaked by moments of sudden beauty, like “the smell of guava” mysteriously wafting through the City of the Dead. Other poems bear witness to agonizing loss and erotic temptation, “the breath of two bodies that never had enough time / and so took pleasure in their mounting terror.” Mersal’s most recent work illuminates the trials of displacement and migration, as well as the risks of crossing boundaries, personal and political, in literature and in life. The Threshold gathers poems from Mersal’s first four collections of poetry: A Dark Alley Suitable for Dance Lessons (1995), Walking as Long as Possible (1997), Alternative Geography (2006), and Until I Give Up the Idea of Home (2013). Taken together, these works chart a poetic itinerary from defiance and antagonism to the establishment of a new, self-created sensibility. At their center is the poet: indefatigably intelligent, funny, flawed, and impossible to pin down. As she writes, “I’m pretty sure / my self-exposures / are for me to hide behind.”

Author : Nicole Moore
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2015-08-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781628920109

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Censorship and the Limits of the Literary by Nicole Moore Pdf

Though literature and censorship have been conceived as long-time adversaries, this collection seeks to understand the degree to which they have been dialectical terms, each producing the other, coeval and mutually constitutive. On the one hand, literary censorship has been posited as not only inescapable but definitive, even foundational to speech itself. One the other, especially after the opening of the USSR's spekstrahn, those enormous collections of literature forbidden under the Soviets, the push to redefine censorship expansively has encountered cogent criticism. Scholars describing the centralised control of East German print publication, for example, have wanted to insist on the difference of pre-publication state censorship from more mundane forms of speech regulation in democracies. Work on South African apartheid censorship and book banning in colonial countries also demonstrates censorship's formative role in the institutional structures of literature beyond the metropole. Censorship and the Limits of the Literary examines these and other developments across twelve countries, from the Enlightenment to the present day, offering case studies from the French revolution to Internet China. Is literature ever without censorship? Does censorship need the literary? In a globalizing era for culture, does censorship represent the final, failed version of national control?

Author : Alexander Mallett
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2024-03-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004690127

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Arabic Textual Sources for the Crusades by Alexander Mallett Pdf

Building upon previous volumes by the same editor, this book contains studies of nine of the most important writers of Arabic-language textual sources for the Crusades and the Frankish presence in the eastern Mediterranean in the period 1097-1291.

Author : Marjorie N. Feld
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2024-05-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781479829347

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The Threshold of Dissent by Marjorie N. Feld Pdf

Explores the long history of anti-Zionist and non-Zionist American Jews Throughout the twentieth century, American Jewish communal leaders projected a unified position of unconditional support for Israel, cementing it as a cornerstone of American Jewish identity. This unwavering position served to marginalize and label dissenters as antisemitic, systematically limiting the threshold of acceptable criticism. In pursuit of this forced consensus, these leaders entered Cold War alliances, distanced themselves from progressive civil rights and anti-colonial movements, and turned a blind eye to human rights abuses in Israel. In The Threshold of Dissent, Marjorie N. Feld instead shows that today’s vociferous arguments among American Jews over Israel and Zionism are but the newest chapter in a fraught history that stretches from the nineteenth century. Drawing on rich archival research and examining wide-ranging intellectual currents—from the Reform movement and the Yiddish left to anti-colonialism and Jewish feminism—Feld explores American Jewish critics of Zionism and Israel from the 1880s to the 1980s. The book argues that the tireless policing of contrary perspectives led each generation of dissenters to believe that it was the first to question unqualified support for Israel. The Threshold of Dissent positions contemporary critics within a century-long debate about the priorities of the American Jewish community, one which holds profound implications for inclusion in American Jewish communal life and for American Jews’ participation in coalitions working for justice. At a time when American Jewish support for Israel has been diminishing, The Threshold of Dissent uncovers a deeper—and deeply contested—history of intracommunal debate over Zionism among American Jews.

Author : Mat Immerzeel,Jacques van der Vliet
Publisher : Peeters Publishers
Page : 752 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 9042914092

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Coptic Studies on the Threshold of a New Millennium by Mat Immerzeel,Jacques van der Vliet Pdf

The congresses organised every four years under the auspices of the International Association for Coptic Studies (IACS) are the main forum for scholars of Egyptian Christian life and culture through the ages. The proceedings of the seventh congress, which was held in Leiden in 2000, comprise ninety-nine papers, reflecting the growth and diversification of Coptic studies worldwide. They include valuable and sometimes groundbreaking essays in topics of, for example, Coptic language, literature, monasticism and archaeology. A particularly noteworthy and important feature of the present proceedings are the state-of-the-art reviews of current trends and achievements in the main fields of the discipline, written by invited experts and accompanied by extensive bibliographies. These review articles cover aspects of Coptic studies as diverse as papyrology, gnosticism, liturgy, Copto-Arabic and art history. They turn these two volumes into real reference books, indispensable for every scholar of early Church history, late antiquity and Near Eastern Christianity.

Author : Julie Scott Meisami,Paul Starkey
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0415185718

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Encyclopedia of Arabic Literature by Julie Scott Meisami,Paul Starkey Pdf

This reference work covers the classical, transitional and modern periods. Editors and contributors cover an international scope of Arabic literature in many countries.

Author : Allen Dunn,Thomas Haddox
Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2012-02-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781572338319

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The Limits of Literary Historicism by Allen Dunn,Thomas Haddox Pdf

The Limits of Literary Historicism is a collection of essays arguing that historicism, which has come to dominate the professional study of literature in recent decades, has become ossified. By drawing attention to the limits of historicism—its blind spots, overreach, and reluctance to acknowledge its commitments—this provocative new book seeks a clearer understanding of what historicism can and cannot teach us about literary narrative. Editors Allen Dunn and Thomas F. Haddox have gathered contributions from leading scholars that challenge the dominance of contemporary historicism. These pieces critique historicism as it is generally practiced, propose alternative historicist models that transcend mere formula, and suggest alternatives to historicism altogether. The volume begins with the editors’ extended introduction, “The Enigma of Critical Distance; or, Why Historicists Need Convictions,” and then is divided into three sections: “The Limits of Historicism,” “Engagements with History,” and “Alternatives to History.” Defying convention, The Limits of Literary Historicism shakes up established modes to move beyond the claustrophobic analyses of contemporary historicism and to ask larger questions that envision more fulfilling and more responsible possibilities in the practice of literary scholarship.

Author : Susan Sinclair,C. H. Bleaney,Pablo García Suárez
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 1510 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9789004170582

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Bibliography of Art and Architecture in the Islamic World (2 Vol. Set) by Susan Sinclair,C. H. Bleaney,Pablo García Suárez Pdf

Following the tradition and style of the acclaimed Index Islamicus, the editors have created this new Bibliography of Art and Architecture in the Islamic World. The editors have surveyed and annotated a wide range of books and articles from collected volumes and journals published in all European languages (except Turkish) between 1906 and 2011. This comprehensive bibliography is an indispensable tool for everyone involved in the study of material culture in Muslim societies.

Author : Muḥammad Muṣṭafá Badawī
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 586 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521331978

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Modern Arabic Literature by Muḥammad Muṣṭafá Badawī Pdf

This volume provides an authoritative survey of creative writing in Arabic from the mid-nineteenth century to the present day.