"Quite simply: these are seminal essays.... Distinguishedscholarship, erudite, and full of innovative ways of interpreting Arabic and Persianpoetry." -- Omar Pound
"(This book) reads Arabic andPersian poetry in a refreshingly new and significant way.... raises ourunderstanding... to a new level." -- James T.Monroe
Innovative methodologies reorient critical readings ofclassical Middle Eastern literature.
"Quite simply: these are seminal essays.... Distinguishedscholarship, erudite, and full of innovative ways of interpreting Arabic and Persianpoetry." -- Omar Pound
"(This book) reads Arabic andPersian poetry in a refreshingly new and significant way.... raises ourunderstanding... to a new level." -- James T.Monroe
Innovative methodologies reorient critical readings ofclassical Middle Eastern literature.
Innovative methodologies reorient critical readings of classical Middle Eastern literature.
Suzanne Pinckney Stetkevych is Professor of Arabic Literature
and Adjunct Professor of Comparative Literature at Indiana
University, Bloomington. She is author of Abu Tammam and the
Poetics of the Abbasid Age (Brill, 1991); The Mute Immortals Speak
(Cornell, 1993); and editor of Reorientations/Arabic and Persian
Poetry
(Indiana University Press, 1994). She serves as editor of the
Journal of Arabic Literature.
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