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The reader in al-Jāḥiẓ : the epistolary rhetoric of an Arabic prose master /

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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hefter, Thomas H. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2014]
Colección:Edinburgh studies in classical Arabic literature.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Machine generated contents note: 1. 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-c As/Ibn al-Taw am Debate.