The Arabian Nights in English Literary Theory (1704-1910)

29.04.2022

Englisch

9781433197574

Peter Lang Publishing Inc. New York

Nein

Muhsin al-Musawi

238

Broschiert

Scheherazade in England. An Expanded and Updated Version of the 1981 Edition

Muhsin J. al-Musawi is professor of classical and modern Arabic literature, comparative and cultural studies at Columbia University. He is the author of over thirty books (including 6 novels) and over sixty scholarly articles. His books include: The Islamic Context of the Thousand and One Nights (2009); The Postcolonial Arabic Novel: Debating Ambivalence (2003); Arabic Poetry: Trajectories of Modernity and Tradition (2006); Reading Iraq: Culture and Power in Conflict (2006); Islam on the Street: Religion in Arabic Literature (2009), selected as a Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2010; The Medieval Islamic Republic of Letters: Arabic Knowledge Construction (2015); Arabic Disclosures: The Postcolonial Autobiographical Atlas (July 2022); The Arabian Nights in Contemporary World Cultures (Aug. 2021). His edited volumes include Arabic Literary Thresholds: Sites of Rhetorical Turn in Contemporary Scholarship (2009) and Arabic Literature for the Classroom (2017). He is the editor of the Journal of Arabic Literature, the foremost academic journal in the field of Arabic literature. He has also served as academic consultant for numerous academic institutions in the United States and abroad. Professor al-Musawi is the recipient of numerous awards and honors, including the highly prestigious 2002 Owais Award in Literary Criticism, the 2018 Kuwait Prize in Arabic Language and Literature, and King Faisal Prize in Arabic Literature in English, 2022.

The Arabian Nights in English Literary Theory (1704-1910): Scheherazade in England, Muhsin J. al-Musawi, Arabian Nights, 18th century criticism, 19th century literary theory, Galland, Grub Street translator, Edward W. Lane, John Payne, R.F. Burton, Leigh Hunt, William Henley, Beckford, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Walter Bagehot, the Victorians, Romanticism, Dickens, Utilitarianism

DB - Texte: Antike und Mittelalter DDA - Klassische Dramen und Dramen (vor 1900) DSB - Literaturwissenschaft, allgemein

210 mm

14.8 cm