Kamran Rastegar

Literary Modernity Between the Middle East and Europe

Textual Transactions in 19th Century Arabic, English and Persian Literatures

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 196
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. September 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 466g
• ISBN-13: 9780415425650
• ISBN-10: 0415425654
• Artikelnr.: 23594559

Autorenporträt

Kamran Rastegar is lecturer in Arabic and Persian at the University of Edinburgh. He researches cultural history, postcolonial studies, and the cinemas of Iran and the Arab world.

Inhaltsangabe

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