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The Reader in Al-Jahiz : The Epistolary Rhetoric of an Arabic Prose Master.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Edinburgh Studies in Classical Arabic Literature SeriesPublisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2014Copyright date: ©2014Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (289 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780748692750
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Reader in Al-JahizDDC classification:
  • 892.783409
LOC classification:
  • PJ7745.J3 -- .H448 2014eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Title page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 The Addressee and the Occasion of Writing -- 2 Epistolary Confrontations and Dialectics of Parody -- 3 Undisclosed Origins and Homelands -- 4 Faulting Misers in the Introduction to Kitab al-Bukhala -- 5 Passive Addressee and Critical Reader in the Abu al-ʿAs/Ibn al-Tawʾam Debate -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.
Summary: Thomas Hefter takes a new approach in interpreting some of al-Jāḥiẓ's 'epistolary monographs'. By focussing on the varying ways in which he wrote to the addressee, Hefter shows how al-Jāḥiẓ shaped his conversations on the page in order to guide (or manipulate) his actual readers and encourage them to engage with his complex materials.
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Intro -- Title page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 The Addressee and the Occasion of Writing -- 2 Epistolary Confrontations and Dialectics of Parody -- 3 Undisclosed Origins and Homelands -- 4 Faulting Misers in the Introduction to Kitab al-Bukhala -- 5 Passive Addressee and Critical Reader in the Abu al-ʿAs/Ibn al-Tawʾam Debate -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.

Thomas Hefter takes a new approach in interpreting some of al-Jāḥiẓ's 'epistolary monographs'. By focussing on the varying ways in which he wrote to the addressee, Hefter shows how al-Jāḥiẓ shaped his conversations on the page in order to guide (or manipulate) his actual readers and encourage them to engage with his complex materials.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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