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Drawing on the richness and depth of the literatures from the Islamicate world,
Arabic, Persian, and Turkic Poetics: Towards a Post-Eurocentric Literary Theory paves the way for a more inclusive literary theory that is rooted in Arabic, Persian, and Turkic literary traditions and which fosters a deeper understanding of global literary discourse.
List of contents
- List of Figures and Tables
- Notes on Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: The Challenges of Comparison
- 1: Hany Rashwan: The History of Literary Theory in Medieval Arabo-Islamic Cultures
- 2: Lachen El Yazghi Ezzaher: The Arabic Commentary Tradition on Aristotle's Rhetoric: A New Space for Greek Logical and Rhetorical Terminology
- 3: Linda G. Jones: 'The Central Jewel': The Poetics of the Khuand#7789ba, Khiand#7789and#257ba and Baland#257gha according to Ibn 'Abd Rabbih of Cordoba (d. 328/940)
- 4: Leila Seyed-Ghasem: The Poetics of Preposing and Postposing (taqdim and ta'khir) in The History of Bayhaqi
- 5: Natalia Chalisova: The Beauty of Misleading: Ambiguity in Persian Poetics and Ghazal Poetry
- 6: A.A. Seyed-Gohrab: The Science of Poetics and Persian Literary Riddles: The Case of Majd al-Din Hamgar
- 7: Nicola Carpentieri: A Maghribi Poetics of Ageing? Ibn Rashiq, al-Qartand#257janni and Ibn Hamdis on I^"al-Shayb wa-l-Shaband#257b"
- 8: Marc Toutant: Beyond Eurocentric Turkology: Turkic Poetry, Persian Prosody, and the Making of a Non-language-specific-system
- 9: A. Handan Konar: Exploring the Arabic and Persian Concept of Imitation (Ietebbu) in 16th Century Ottoman Biographies of Poets
- 10: Berat Açil: The Proof of God's Eloquence in the Poetics of Seyh Gâlib (d. 1799)
- 11: Todd Lawson: Metaphorical Literalism and the Poetics of Reality: Ahmad Ahsand#257i, Figuration and the World of Images
- 12: Haifa Alfaisal: From Baland#257gha to Intiqand#257d: Politicising the Science of Literature in Modern Arabic Literary Thought
- 13: Chiara Fontana: Arabic Poetics and Prosody in Practice: Najib Surur's Experimentalism in 'Kalimand#257t fi-l-hubb' [Love Words]
- Index
About the author
Dr Hany Rashwan is a scholar of Arabic and Comparative Poetics. He is an Assistant Professor of Arabic Language and Literature at UAE University as well as an Honorary Research Fellow at The University of Birmingham.
Professor Rebecca Ruth Gould is a Distinguished Professor of Comparative Poetics and Global Politics, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London.
Dr Nasrin Askari is a Research Fellow and Translator on the Persian segment of the European Research Council-funded project Global Literary Theory (GlobalLIT).
Summary
Drawing on the richness and depth of the literatures from the Islamicate world, Arabic, Persian, and Turkic Poetics: Towards a Post-Eurocentric Literary Theory paves the way for a more inclusive literary theory that is rooted in Arabic, Persian, and Turkic literary traditions and which fosters a deeper understanding of global literary discourse.
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A superb collection that details the distinctive characters of the Arabic, Persian, and Turkish literary traditions as well as the numerous and subtle ways in which they have interacted. With depth and nuance, this volume conveys the integrity and logic of a range of literary expression, with examples from the 10th to 20th centuries, in the three languages. In elucidating the conceptual and aesthetic underpinnings of these varied modes of expression in their own terms, this book represents a pioneering and much needed post-Eurocentric exploration of central literary categories of the Arabic, Persian, and Turkish traditions and elucidates what might be termed an Islamicate comparative poetics, enriching the repertoire available for developing a transnational and global literary theory.
