TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hefter,Thomas
TI  - The Reader in Al-Jahiz: The Epistolary Rhetoric of an Arabic Prose Master
T2  - Edinburgh Studies in Classical Arabic Literature Series
SN  - 9780748692750
AV  - PJ7745.J3 -- .H448 2014eb 
U1  - 892.783409 
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Edinburgh
PB  - Edinburgh University Press
KW  - Ja?i?, -- -868 or 869 -- Criticism and interpretation
KW  - Books and reading -- Islamic Empire
KW  - Arabic literature -- 750-1258 -- History and criticism
KW  - Islamic Empire -- Intellectual life
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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
N2  - 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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