Articles liés à The Author and His Doubles: Essays on Classical Arabic...

The Author and His Doubles: Essays on Classical Arabic Culture - Couverture rigide

Kilito, Abdelfattah

 
9780815629368: The Author and His Doubles: Essays on Classical Arabic Culture
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0815629362 ISBN 13 : 9780815629368
Editeur : Syracuse University Press, 2001

Synopsis

Michael 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.

Les informations fournies dans la section « Synopsis » peuvent faire référence à une autre édition de ce titre.

À propos de l'auteur

Abdelfattah Kilito, professor in the department of French at Muhammad V University in Rabat, Morocco, has published extensively on Arabic literature. He has been a visiting scholar at the Ecole des Hautcs Etudes en Science Sociales, the College de France, and Harvard University. In 1989 he was awarded the Grand Prix du Maroc.

Michael Cooperson teaches at the University of California at Los Angeles and is the author of Classic Arabic Biography: The Heirs of the Prophets in the Age of al-Ma'mun.

Les informations fournies dans la section « A propos du livre » peuvent faire référence à une autre édition de ce titre.

Éditeur
Syracuse University Press
Date d'édition
2001
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0815629362
ISBN 13 
9780815629368
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
129
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
non disponible