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How Do You Say Epigram in Arabic? : Literary History at the Limits of Comparison.

Talib, Adam.

How Do You Say Epigram in Arabic? : Literary History at the Limits of Comparison. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (351 pages) - Brill Studies in Middle Eastern Literatures Series ; v.40 . - Brill Studies in Middle Eastern Literatures Series .

Intro -- Note to Readers -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Preamble: Growth and Graft -- Part 1 -- On Wholeness -- A Bounding Line -- The Sum of its Parts -- Part 2 -- Arabic Poetry, Greek Terminology -- Preliminary Remarks -- Epigrams in the World -- Hegemonic Presumptions and Atomic Fallout -- Epigrams in Parallax -- Appendix -- Corpus of Maqāṭīʿ-Material -- Annotated Bibliography of Unpublished Sources -- Sources -- Index.

How Do You Say "Epigram" in Arabic? is the first study of one of the most popular and enduring genres in the history of Arabic poetry, the maqṭūʿah, and a contribution toward a decolonized comparative literature.

9789004350533


Epigrams, Arabic-History and criticism.
Arabic poetry-1258-1800-History and criticism.
Arabic poetry-19th century-History and criticism.


Electronic books.

PJ7542.E62 .T355 2018

892.780209

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