The City in Arabic Literature : : Classical and Modern Perspectives /

The City in Arabic Literature : : Classical and Modern Perspectives / / Nizar F. Hermes, Gretchen Head.

Addresses the literary representation and cultural interpretation of the city in Arabic literatureShows how the city has been explored in works of literature by classical and modern ‘Arab’ authors from different theosophical and ideological backgroundsViews the entirety of the tradition as an evolvi...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2018
VerfasserIn:
Hermes, Nizar F. ,
Head, Gretchen,
MitwirkendeR:
Anishchenkova, Valerie,
Cruz, Anna,
Fakhreddine, Huda,
Hayek, Ghenwa,
Head, Gretchen,
Hermes, Nizar,
Hutchins, William,
Khaldi, Boutheina,
Munt, Harry,
Orfali, Bilal,
Ramadan, Yasmine,
Rossetti, Chip,
Salama, Mohammad,
Samman, Hanadi,
Talib, Adam,
Tuttle, Kelly,
Tyeer, Sarah,
Place / Publishing House:Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]
©2018
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (360 p.) :; 7 B/W illustrations 7 B/W line art
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Figures
  • Preface
  • 1. The Untranslatability of the Qurʾānic City
  • 2. Local Historians and their Cities: the Urban Topography of al-Azdī’s Mosul and al-Sahmī’s Jurjan
  • 3. Against Cities: On Hijāʾ al-Mudun in Arabic Poetry
  • 4. The Literary Geography of Meaning in the Maqāmāt of al-Hamadhānī and al-Óarīrī
  • 5. “Woe is me for Qayrawan!” Ibn Sharaf ’s Lāmiyya, the Plight of Refugees and the Cityscape
  • 6. In Memory of al-Andalus: Using the Elegy to Reimagine the Literary and Literal Geography of Cordoba
  • 7. The Mamluk City as Overlapping Personal Networks
  • 8. Citystruck
  • 9. Between Utopia and Dystopia in Marrakech
  • 10. Revolutionary Cityscapes: Yūsuf Idrīs and the National Imaginary
  • 11. Lost Cities, Vanished Worlds: Configurations of Urban Autobiographical Identity in the Arabic Literature of the 1980s
  • 12. The Sufis of Baghdad: A Topographical Index of the City
  • 13. Ba‚rayātha: Self-portrait as a City
  • 14. Of Cities and Canons in an Age of Comparative Consumption
  • 15. Everyday Writing in an Extraordinary City
  • 16. Translating Cairo’s Hidden Lines: The City as Visual Text in Magdy El Shafee’s Metro
  • About the Contributors
  • Index

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