Hany Rashwan

Rediscovering Ancient Egyptian Literature through Arabic Poetics (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

A groundbreaking study of the relationship between ancient Egyptian literary devices and their Arabic counterparts

This book is the first of its kind to thoroughly and systematically compare ancient Egyptian and Arabic literary devices. Hany Rashwan compares the stylistic Arabic literary device of jinas, or word play, a key literary device pervading medieval and modern Arabic poetry, literary prose, songs, and proverbs, with its counterpart in ancient Egyptian. Through the deployment of Arabic literary and critical methods he therefore makes possible the rediscovery of ancient literary register and tone in a way that has eluded Western scholarship. Since Arabic, along with other Semitic languages, such as Hebrew and Akkadian, belongs, like ancient Egyptian, to the Afro-Asiatic linguistic phylum, this vital study also proposes an Arabic-based textual analytic method as a viable comparative critical method for working across these kindred languages.

Rediscovering Ancient Egyptian Literature through Arabic Poetics offers a groundbreaking postcolonial perspective on Egyptological method and theory by challenging the use of Eurocentric literary theories, terms, and concepts, and refreshing the study of ancient Egyptian and Arabic poetics. This innovative approach also speaks to, and challenges, a broader audience, including scholars of comparative poetics, comparative literature, world literature, Arabic poetics, and constructive rhetoric.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Kind World Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. September 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781649031785
• Artikelnr.: 67470543

Autorenporträt

Hany Rashwan is assistant professor of Arabic Language and Literature at United Arab Emirates University (UAEU) and an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Birmingham. He was aresearch fellow of Arabic literary theory at the University of Birmingham,where he led the Arabic poetics strand of the Global Literary Theory project funded by the European Research Council. He previously held an Andrew Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship at the American University of Beirut. The recipient of an International Society for the History of Rhetoric (ISHR) Research Fellowship, Rashwan earned his PhD in Cultural, Literary, and Postcolonial Studies from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London.

Stephen Quirke is professor of Egyptology at the Institute of Archaeology, University College London. His publications include Going out in Daylight - prt m hrw: The Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead - translation, sources, meanings (2013).

Ayman A. El-Desouky is associate professor of Modern Arabic and Comparative Literature at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies in Qatar. He is the author of The Intellectual and the People in Egyptian Literature and Culture: Amara and the 2011 Revolution (2014).

Inhaltsangabe

A Note on Dates, Translations, Transliterations, and Comparative Scope 1. Indigenous Egyptologists and Eurocentric Monopoly Eurocentric AE literary theories 2. The Bible as a Motor of AE Comparisons Eurocentric comparative disciplines The Birth of Comparative Bal
gha AE Bal
gha and Eurocentric Literary Criticism 3. Jin
s through the Lens of Eurocentrism From Pure Greco-Roman to the Modern Colonial Languages The Artificial Universality of Eurocentric Literary Terms The Conceptual Resonance of Arabic Literary Terms 4. Writing versus Language in the AE Culture The Pictorial Realism of AE Writing Visual Morphology Generates New Semantics The Realms of mAA 'to see' in Reading the AE Writing Aesthetical Calligraphy of AE Scripts 5. Linguistic Classification of the AE Language AE-Semitic Relationship Rethinking Phonetics of the AE Writing 6. The Death of AE Writers and Readers Euro-American scholarship of AE literature Literariness between Eurocentrism and modernism The Premodern Concept of Arabic Adab 7. Definition of Bal
gha (linguistically and conceptually) Vocal form (laf
) and poetic meaning (män
) in bal
gha AE Literary mdt-kal
m 8. Definitions of Jin
s within Early Bal
gha Jin
s through the Disciplines of Bal
gha Various Types of Arabic Jin
s 9. Partial Jin
s (
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) 10. Morphological Jin
s (
) 11. Reversed Jin
s (
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) 12. Major morphological jin
s (
) 13. Resemblance Jin
s (
) 14. Beginning Letters Jin
s (
) 15. Visual Jin
s (
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) Related Determinatives Contrasted Words with the Same Determinative Contrasted Words with Contrasting Determinatives Different Words with the Same Determinative Using an Unusual Determinative 16. General categories and functions of jin
s Jin
s is Intentional or Accidental? Reconstructing Ancient Egyptian Jin
s Functions (1) A device of literary enjoyment (2) Framing the highlighted message AE framing jin
s on the sentence level AE framing jin
s on the stanza level (3) A device for reader Immersion (4) Persuasive literary device (5) Informative literary device Conclusion Bibliography