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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.
Paperback. 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: 285 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 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 380.
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
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
285
Condition
New
Number of Pages
285
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780333641378
SKU
V9780333641378
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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