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Author : Guy Amirthanayagam
Publisher : Springer
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 43,72 MB
Release : 1982-06-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1349049433
Author : Rasheed El-Enany
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 10 pages
File Size : 43,67 MB
Release : 2006-04-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 113432099X
This is one of the first books in English to explore Arab responses to Western culture and values in modern Arab literature. Through in-depth research El-Enany examines the attitudes as expressed mainly through works of fiction written by Arab authors during the twentieth, and, to a lesser extent, nineteenth century. It constitutes an original addition to the age-old East-West debate, and is particularly relevant to the current discussion on Islam and the West. Alongside raising highly topical questions about stereotypical ideas concerning Arabs and Muslims in general, the book explores representations of the West by the foremost Arab intellectuals over a two-century period, up to the present day, and will appeal to those with an interest in Islam, the Middle East, nationalism and the so-called ‘Clash of Civilizations’.
Author : Suzanne Conklin Akbari
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 36,75 MB
Release : 2008-12-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1442693282
Few figures from history evoke such vivid Orientalist associations as Marco Polo, the Venetian merchant, explorer, and writer whose accounts of the "Far East" sparked literary and cultural imaginations. The essays in Marco Polo and the Encounter of East and West challenge what many scholars perceived to be an opposition of "East" and "West" in Polo's writings. These writers argue that Marco Polo's experiences along the Silk Road should instead be considered a fertile interaction of cultural exchange. The volume begins with detailed studies of Marco Polo's narrative in its many medieval forms (including French, Italian, and Latin versions). They place the text in its material and generic contexts, and situate Marco Polo's account within the conventions of travel literature and manuscript illumination. Other essays consider the appropriation of Marco Polo's narrative in adaptations, translation, and cinematic art. The concluding section presents historiographic and poetic accounts of the place of Marco Polo in the context of a global world literature. By considering the production and reception of The Travels, this collection lays the groundwork for new histories of world literature written from the perspective of cultural, economic, and linguistic exchange, rather than conquest and conflict.
Author : Salman Rushdie
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 43,7 MB
Release : 2014-01-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0804152330
From the Booker Prize-winning, bestselling author of Midnight's Children and The Satanic Verses comes nine stories that reveal the oceanic distances and the unexpected intimacies between East and West. Daring, extravagant, comical and humane, this book renews Rushdie's stature as a storyteller who can enthrall and instruct us with the same sentence. "Richly nuanced, full or humor, bitter anger, an embracing tenderness, and a buyancy of language." —Boston Globe
Author : Jaydipsinh Dodiya
Publisher : Sarup & Sons
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 18,49 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Indic fiction (English)
ISBN : 9788176250726
Contributed essays.
Author : Sylvie Blum-Reid
Publisher : Wallflower Press
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 47,3 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781903364673
This book examines Franco-Asian film and literary productions in the context of France's colonial history. Includes analysis of such key film texts as Indochine, Cyclo and The Lover.
Author : Amar Nath Prasad
Publisher : Sarup & Sons
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 21,9 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Indic literature (English)
ISBN : 9788176255172
Author : Eugene Benson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1950 pages
File Size : 49,77 MB
Release : 2004-11-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1134468482
" ... Documents the history and development of [Post-colonial literatures in English, together with English and American literature] and includes original research relating to the literatures of some 50 countries and territories. In more than 1,600 entries written by more than 600 internationally recognized scholars, it explores the effect of the colonial and post-colonial experience on literatures in English worldwide.
Author : Rasheed El-Enany
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 16,58 MB
Release : 2006-04-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1134320981
This is one of the first books in English to explore Arab responses to Western culture and values in modern Arab literature. Through in-depth research El-Enany examines the attitudes as expressed mainly through works of fiction written by Arab authors during the twentieth, and, to a lesser extent, nineteenth century. It constitutes an original addition to the age-old East-West debate, and is particularly relevant to the current discussion on Islam and the West. Alongside raising highly topical questions about stereotypical ideas concerning Arabs and Muslims in general, the book explores representations of the West by the foremost Arab intellectuals over a two-century period, up to the present day, and will appeal to those with an interest in Islam, the Middle East, nationalism and the so-called ‘Clash of Civilizations’.
Author : Cindy Gabrielle
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 35,72 MB
Release : 2015-06-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1443879762
Though New Zealand author Janet Frame (1924–2004) lived at a time of growing dissatisfaction with European cultural models, and though her (auto-)biography, fiction and letters all testify to the fact that a direct encounter between herself and Buddhism occurred, her work has, so far, never been examined from the vantage point of its indebtedness to Buddhism. It is of the utmost significance, however, that a Buddhist navigation of Frame’s texts should shed fresh light on large segments of the Framean corpus which have tended to remain obdurately mysterious. This includes passages centering on such themes as the existence of a non-dual world or a character’s sudden embrace of a non-ego-like self. Of equal significance is the conclusion one then draws that this unharnessed world which human beings are often unable to embrace has always been right under their nose, for, whenever the aspect of the intellect that filters perceptions into mutually excluding categories fails to function, he or she finds a place of subjective arrival in, and sees, this supposedly unknowable ‘beyond’. Thus, possibly against the grain of mainstream criticism, this study argues that Janet Frame constantly seeks ways through which the infinite and the Other can be approached, though not corrupted, by the perceiving self, and that she found in the Buddhist epistemology a pathway towards evoking such alterity.