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The Modern Arabic Short Story: Shahrazad Returns
Mohammad Shaheen
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Description for The Modern Arabic Short Story: Shahrazad Returns
Hardcover. This fully revised second edition of "The Modern Arabic Short Story" is an anthology offering English translations of previously unavailable Arabic texts. Each story has been translated and collected with an introduction and overview of this classical form of storytelling. Num Pages: 299 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FBX; 2CSR; DSBH; DSK; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 138 x 23. Weight in Grams: 579.
This fully revised second edition of The Modern Arabic Short Story is a unique anthology offering English translations of previously unavailable Arabic texts. Each story has been beautifully translated and carefully collected in this unique updated edition. The Modern Arabic Short Story provides a valuable introduction and overview of this classical form of storytelling.
This fully revised second edition of The Modern Arabic Short Story is a unique anthology offering English translations of previously unavailable Arabic texts. Each story has been beautifully translated and carefully collected in this unique updated edition. The Modern Arabic Short Story provides a valuable introduction and overview of this classical form of storytelling.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
Number of Pages
285
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780333641361
SKU
V9780333641361
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-15
About Mohammad Shaheen
MOHAMMAD SHAHEEN is Professor of English at the University of Jordan, and Vice President of Mu'tah University. He was educated at King's College, Cambridge University, and is the author of George Meredith: A Reappraisal of the Novels, and Selected Letters of George Meredith. His contributions to journals include articles on Forster, Conrad, Tayeb Salih, Munif, Eliot and Pound.
Reviews for The Modern Arabic Short Story: Shahrazad Returns
Reviews of previous edition 'Shaheen does well to draw attention to the increasingly close links which have developed between poetry and the short story, both in their use of myth and folklore, and in the general development of the language of literature. These translations have genuine literary quality, and those of Kahlil Hawi's poem and Zakariyya Tamir's ... Read more