Literary modernity between the Middle East and Europe : textual transactions in nineteenth-century Arabic, English, and Persian literatures / Kamran Rastegar

Author:: Rastegar, Kamran
Published:: London ; New York : Routledge, 2007.
Physical Description:: xv, 176 pages ; 24 cm.

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Routledge studies in Middle Eastern literatures

Contents:

The literary abacus : transactions in nineteenth-century Arabic, English, and Persian literatures -- Biographies of the Arabian nights, an English chapter -- Modern Arabic and Persian biographies of the Arabian nights -- The inner subjects of Arabic and Persian travel texts on Europe -- On nothing and everything : travel, conversion, and the transformation of (Ahmad) Faris al-Shidyaq, Arab observer of Europe -- Transactions and translations: Hajji Baba Ispahani's value between English and Persian readerships -- Conclusion : towards critical philology.

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ISBN:

0415425654 (hbk.)
0203939786 (ebk.)
9780415425650 (hbk.)
9780203939789 (ebk.)

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 162-172) and index.

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