Author and His Doubles
Kilito, Abdelfattah
| Autor: | Kilito, Abdelfattah |
|---|---|
| Themengebiete: | Literature - Classics / Criticism |
| Veröffentlichungsdatum: | 01.11.2001 |
| EAN: | 9780815629368 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Seitenzahl: | 154 |
| Produktart: | Gebunden |
| Verlag: | Syracuse University Press |
| Untertitel: | Essays on Classical Arabic Culture |
Produktinformationen "Author and His Doubles"
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.
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