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Literary Criticism in Medieval Arabic Islamic Culture : The Making of a Tradition /

For the first time this book provides an examination of the impulses that went into the making of literary criticism in medieval Arab-Islamic culture. It traces the resulting characteristics of this area of intellectual enquiry and grounds the field of Arabic literary criticism in its social, intell...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Ouyang, Wen-chin (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2022]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Note on Transliterations, Translations and Dates
  • Introduction
  • 1 Knowledge and Cultural Dialectics
  • 2 Functions of Poetry in Medieval Arabic-Islamic Society
  • 3 Beginnings
  • 4 Fanfare of Controversy: Abū Tammām and al-Mutanabbī
  • 5 Against All Odds: The Making of a Tradition
  • Conclusion
  • APPENDIX I Accounts of Critics in Biographical Dictionaries
  • APPENDIX II Attributes of Critics in Biographical Dictionaries
  • APPENDIX III al-'Āmirī's Classification of the Sciences
  • APPENDIX IV al-Ghazzālī's Classification of the Sciences
  • APPENDIX V Ikhwān al-Ṣ afā's Classification of the Sciences
  • APPENDIX VI Recognition of Literary Criticism in Non-critical Writings
  • Bibliography
  • Index