Reflections on Reflections: Near Eastern Writers Reading Literature Contributor(s): Islebe, Andreas Christian (Editor), Neuwirth, Angelika (Editor) |
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ISBN: 3895003697 ISBN-13: 9783895003691 Publisher: Dr Ludwig Reichert OUR PRICE: $125.40 Product Type: Hardcover Published: July 2006 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Middle Eastern |
Series: Literaturen Im Kontext. Arabisch - Persisch - Turkisch |
Physical Information: 408 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - Middle East |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: This volume assembles the papers read at a symposium on the diverse forms of literature reception and intertextuality in Middle Eastern literatures and Arabic literature in particular. Arabic studies are continuously confronted with powerful traditions and notions of canon. Yet questions of intertextuality have only rarely been systematically pursued and a comprehensive study in the various modes of literary reception is equally missed. This book intends to alert to a desideratum in that subject. |