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Document Type: | Book |
Title: | Literary modernity between the Middle East and Europe :textual transactions in nineteenth-century Arabic, English, and Persian literatures / Kamran Rastegar. |
Author: | Rastegar, Kamran. |
Publisher: | London ; New York : Routledge, 2007. |
Pages: | xv, 176 p : ill. |
Language: | English |
ISBN: | 0415425654978041542565 |
Notes: | Includes index.c2007 Kamran Rastegar |
Bibliographic Note: | Bibliography: p. 162-172 |
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. |
Author as Subject: | Shidyaq, Ahmad Faris, 1804?-1887.al-Muwaylihi, Muhammad, 1858?-1930 |
Descriptors: | Thousand and one nights Thousand and one nights -- English criticism Literature, English -- Arab influences. Literature, Arabic -- English influences. Literature, Comparative -- Arabic and English. |
Series: | Routledge studies in Middle Eastern literatures 17 |
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