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How Do You Say “Epigram” in Arabic?: Literary History at the Limits of Comparison, written by Adam Talib

In: Journal of Arabic Literature
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20 Mar 2019
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Adam Talib, (2018) How Do You Say “Epigram” in Arabic?: Literary History at the Limits of Comparison. Brill Studies in Middle Eastern Literatures. Leiden; Boston: Brill. 350 pages. Cloth $149. E-Book $135.

Recent scholarship on Arabic literature of the Mamlūk period has begun to give shape to what was once an amorphous landscape. Nevertheless, the task is hardly easy given that the field remains relatively uncharted territory. The critic has to tread carefully with an awareness of how the biases of our modern vantage point shape this landscape. Our understandings of, and assumptions about genres, aesthetics, and periodization
Title:
How Do You Say “Epigram” in Arabic?: Literary History at the Limits of Comparison, written by Adam Talib
Article Type:
Book Review
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1163/1570064x-12341377
Language:
English
Pages:
85–88
In:
Journal of Arabic Literature
In:
Volume 50: Issue 1
Publisher:
Brill
E-ISSN:
1570-064x
Print ISSN:
0085-2376
Subjects:
Literature, Middle East and Islamic Studies, Comparative Studies & World Literature, Literature and Cultural Studies, Criticism & Theory, Cultural History, Literary Relations

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