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Middle East Literature in Translation Ser.: Author & His Doubles : Essays on Classical Arabic Culture by Abdelfattah Kilito (2001, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherSyracuse University Press
ISBN-100815629311
ISBN-139780815629313
eBay Product ID (ePID)2026184
Product Key Features
Number of Pages154 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameAuthor & His Doubles : Essays on Classical Arabic Culture
Publication Year2001
SubjectMiddle Eastern, Essays, Subjects & Themes / General
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaLiterary Criticism, Literary Collections
AuthorAbdelfattah Kilito
SeriesMiddle East Literature in Translation Ser.
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.4 in
Item Weight8 Oz
Item Length8 in
Item Width5.6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN2001-049782
TitleLeadingThe
ReviewsCooperson's is a bold translation. . . . This is the most important introduction to Arabic culture we have in any language, a book of riqor, intelligence, elegance, and uncanny charm.
Original LanguageArabic
Table Of ContentForeword by Roger Allen Translator's Preface Note on Names and Dates Introduction 1. Verses and Reverses 2. Adoption 3. The Polyandrous Ode 4. The Paths of the Prophetic Hadith 5. Poetry and Coin 6. The Poetics of the Anecdote 7. Confessions of a Forger 8. A Letter from Beyond the Grave 7 9. Voice and Palimpsest Conclusion Notes References
SynopsisMichael Cooperson's translation makes Abdelfattah Kilito's masterpiece available to English-speaking audiences for the first time. Called the most inventive and provocative critic of Arabic literature writing in the Middle East today, Kilito opens our perception with the same breadth of vision, seeking to define the traditional and historical forces that bind one writer to another and that inextricably link an author to a text. This volume benefits from Cooperson's accomplished translation. While rigorously precise, it also allows the wit and humor and the lyricism of Kilito's prose full expression. Drawing on major themes of classical Arabic literature, the essays use simple, poetic language to argue that genre, not authorship, is the single most important feature of classical works. Kilito discusses love poetry and panegyric, the Prophet's Hadith, and the literary anecdote, as well as offering novel readings of recurrent themes such as memorization, plagiarism, forgery, and dream visions of the dead., In this text Kilito argues that genre - not authorship - is at the heart of classic Arabic literature. He examines love poetry and panegyric, the Prophet's Hadith and the literary anecdote, as well as such themes as memorization, plagiarism and forgery and the dream visions of the dead.
LC Classification NumberPJ7542.P53K5513 2001
