Providing a broad ranging and unique comparative study of the development of English, Persian and Arabic literature, this book looks at their interrelations with specific reference to modernity, nationalism and social value. It gives a strong theoretical underpinning to the development of Middle Eastern literature in the modern period.
Author(s): Kamran Rastegar
Year: 2007
Language: English
Pages: 192
BOOK COVER......Page 1
TITLE......Page 8
COPYRIGHT......Page 9
DEDICATION......Page 10
CONTENTS......Page 12
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS......Page 14
NOTE ON TRANSLITERATION......Page 16
Part 1 LITERARY HISTORY AND COMPARATIVE LITERATURE: The Middle East and Europe......Page 18
INTRODUCTION......Page 20
1 THE LITERARY ABACUS: Transactions in nineteenth-century Arabic, English, and Persian literatures......Page 28
Part 2 NINETEENTH-CENTURY ARABIAN NIGHTS’ BIOGRAPHIES......Page 52
2 BIOGRAPHIES OF THE ARABIAN NIGHTS, AN ENGLISH CHAPTER......Page 54
3 MODERN ARABIC AND PERSIAN BIOGRAPHIES OF THE ARABIAN NIGHTS......Page 72
Part 3 WRITING TRAVELS AND OTHER TRANSACTIONS......Page 92
4 THE INNER SUBJECTS OF ARABIC AND PERSIAN TRAVEL TEXTS ON EUROPE......Page 94
5 ON NOTHING AND EVERYTHING: Travel, conversion, and the transformations of (Ahmad) Faris al-Shidyaq, Arab observer of Europe......Page 118
6 TRANSACTIONS AND TRANSLATIONS: Hajji Baba Ispahani’s value between English and Persian readerships......Page 143
CONCLUSION: Toward critical philology......Page 162
NOTES......Page 166
BIBLIOGRAPHY......Page 179
INDEX......Page 190
