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Comparative Approaches to Middle Eastern Literatures
New Comparison, Number 13 (Spring 1992). Edited by Julie Meisami.

Contents
  • Introduction (Julie Meisami, Oxford)
  • Editorial (Holger Klein, Salzburg)

  • Arabic Interference with Medieval Hebrew Literature: A Reconsideration (Rina Drory, Tel-Aviv)
  • The Long and the Short of It: Genre-Specific Rhetoric in the Development of the Long Poem in Latin and Persian Poetries (Dick Davis, Ohio)
  • Reading Ottoman Poetry in the West: Reconstruction, Post-Reconstruction and the Politics of Orientalism (Walter G. Andrews, Washington)
  • The Enigma of Persian Modernism (Nasrin Rahimieh, Edmonton)
  • Arab Fiction in English: A Case of Dual Nationality (Hilary Kilpatrick, Lausanne)

  • The Oriental Roots of the Picaresque (Abdullah al-Dabbagh, Arbil)
  • The Arabic Bildungsroman: A Generic Appraisal (Nedal Al Mousa, Kuwait)
  • Light Motives in the Works of Abu Hamed al-Ghazâli and Jonathan Edwards (Yusur Al-Madani, Kuwait)
  • The Poetic Affinity of 'Abbâs al-'Aqqâd and Thomas Hardy (Samir Elbarbary, Kuwait)
  • The Gaze Returned: Delacroix and the Women of Algiers (Rosemarie Jones, Sussex)
  • Representations of the Peasantry in the Rural Fiction of B. Traven and Nawal el Saadawi (Kenneth Payne, Kuwait)
  • The Dissolution of Coherence: 'Desert' by Adonis in Arabic and in French and English Translation (Amar Al-Jundi and John S. Dixon, Warwick)

Reviews
  • Christopher Smith (ed.), The Teaching of Translation (Beate Herting)
  • Martin M. Winkler (ed.), Classics and the Cinema (Christopher Smith)
  • Annabel Patterson, Fables of Power: Aesopian Writing and Political History (Andrew Hadfield)


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