Arabic literary thresholds : : sites of rhetorical turn in contemporary scholarship / / edited by Muhsin al-Musawi.

• TeilnehmendeR: Musawi, Muhsin Jasim.; Stetkevych, Jaroslav.
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Language: English
• Series: Brill ebook titles
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (357 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

This volume, dedicated to Jaroslav Stetkevych, includes a number of original contributions that signify a rhetorical shift in the social sciences and Arabic studies. The articles and essays deal with Orientalism, classical Arabic tradition, Andalusian poetry, Francophone literature, translation, architecture and poetry, comparative studies, and Sufism. Literary production is studied in its own terms to situate these literary concerns in the mainstream of cultural studies. The outcome is a solid and highly sophisticated scholarship that makes this book one of the most needed among scholars and students of comparative literature, Arabic poetics and politics, Orientalism, Afro-Asian studies, East/West encounters and translation.

Table of Contents

Arabic literary thresholds: sites of rhetorical turn in contemporary scholarship / Muhsin al-Musawi -- Rewriting literary history: the case of the Arabic novel / Roger Allen -- Abbasid popular narrative: the formation of readership and cultural production / Muhsin al-Musawi -- Al-Sharif al-Radi and the poetics of Alid legitimacy elegy for al-Husayn ibn Ali on Ashura', 391 A.H. / Suzanne Pinckney Stetkevych -- Early Islam: monotheism or henotheism? A view from the court / Samer M. Ali -- Literary hybridization in the zajal: Ibn Quzman's Zajal 88 (The visit of Sir Gold) / James T. Monroe -- "On the battleground:" Al-Nabulusi's encounters with a poem by Ibn al-Farid / Th. Emil Homerin -- Return to the flash rock plain of Thahmad: two nasibs by Ibn al-Arabi / Michael Sells -- Poetry and architecture: a double imitation in the Siniyyah of Ahmad Shawqi / Akiko M. Sumi -- Metapoetry between East and West: Abd al-Wahhab al-Bayati and the western composers of metapoetry: a study in analogies / Aida O. Azouqa -- "In a language that was not his own": on Ahlam Mustaghanami's Dhakirat al-Jasad and its French translation Memoires de la Chair / Elizabeth M. Holt -- Curriculum vitae : Jaroslav Stetkevych.