Wolfhart Heinrichs Essays and Articles on Arabic Literature - General Issues, Terms

Wolfhart Heinrichs' Essays and Articles on Arabic Literature: General Issues, Terms is the first of two volumes which showcases a great number of Heinrichs¿ writings on his central field of research: Arabic literature. This volume specifically looks at poetry and rhetoric, and their indigenous theories and terminologies.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Frontispiece (A Portrait of the Scholar as a Young Man)
Foreword by Michael Cooperson
Introductory Editorial Remarks
General issues
Literaturtheorie
Einführung
Philology
The Classification of the Sciences and the Consolidation of Philology in Classical Islam
Literary Theory: The Problem of its Efficacy
Poetik, Rhetorik, Literaturkritik, Metrik und Reimlehre
Rhetorical Figures
Klassisch-arabische Theorien dichterischer Rede
Prosimetrical Genres in Classical Arabic Literature
Die altarabische Qä¿de als Dichtkunst
Authority in Arabic Poetry
"Manierismus" in der Arabischen Literatur
Obscurity in Classical Arabic Poetry
Modes of Existence of the Poetry in the Arabian Nights
Early Ornate Prose and the Rhetorization of Poetry in Arabic Literature
Näd
Terms
Isti¿¿rah and Bad¿¿ and their Terminological Relationship in Early Arabic Literary Criticism
Paired Metaphors in Mu¿dath Poetry
On the Genesis of the Haqîqa-Majâz Dichotomy
"Takhy¿l" and its Traditions
Rose Versus Narcissus. Observations on an Arabic Literary Debate
Notes on the Index
Index of Classical Authors, Selected Book Titles, and Key Terms

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Hinrich Biesterfeldt is a retired Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies at Ruhr University Bochum, Germany. He received his PhD in 1970 in Göttingen. He is the author of books and articles on Arabic literature and the history of the sciences in Islam. Together with Sebastian Günther, he is the editor of the series Islamic History and Civilization.
Alma Giese is an Arabist who received her PhD in 1980 in Giessen, Germany; a translator of numerous works from classical Arabic literature into German; and the widow of Wolfhart Heinrichs.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Hinrich Giese Biesterfeldt
• Mitarbeit: Biesterfeldt Hinrich (Herausgeber), Giese Alma (Herausgeber)
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 29.09.2025
• EAN: 9781032046402
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3204640-2
• Seiten: 390
• Serie: Variorum Collected Studies
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Allgemeine und Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft; Philosophy, Society & culture: general, Middle East, Arabic, Religion & beliefs, Regional Studies, Literature: history & criticism, Regional / International studies, Religion and beliefs, Society and culture: general, Language teaching and learning, Literature: history and criticism, Language teaching & learning (other than ELT), LANGUAGE STUDY / General, LANGUAGE STUDY / Arabic