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

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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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Hefter, Thomas H. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2014]
Series:Edinburgh studies in classical Arabic literature.
Subjects:
Jāḥiẓ, > -868 or 869 > Criticism and interpretation.
Jāḥiẓ, > -868 or 869 > Technique.
Jāḥiẓ, > -868 or 869
Ǧāḥiẓ, ʻAmr Ibn-Baḥr al- > 776-869
750-1258
Books and reading > Islamic Empire.
Arabic literature > 750-1258 > History and criticism.
Livres et lecture > Empire islamique.
Littérature arabe > 750-1258 > Histoire et critique.
LITERARY CRITICISM > African.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Middle Eastern.
Arabic literature
Books and reading
Intellectual life
Technique
Islamic Empire > Intellectual life.
Empire islamique > Vie intellectuelle.
Islamic Empire
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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