Sensibilities of the Islamic Mediterranean : self-expression in a Muslim culture from post-classical times to the present day /: self-expression in a Muslim culture from post-classical times to the present day. (©2008)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Robin Ostle.
• Other Names: Ostle, Robin
• Contents: Persons and passions / Robin Ostle -- Challenging symbols of power : palaces and castles in the Thousand and one nights / Richard van Leeuwen -- Fools and rogues in discourse and disguise : two studies / Geert Jan van Gelder -- Ibrahim Pasha and sculpture as subversion in art / Filiz Yenișhirlioğlu -- The journey as metaphor / Richard van Leeuwen -- Myths and signs of alienation between 19th-century rihlat and Europe / Daniel Newman -- Portrait of the traveller as a young man : Mustafa Sâmi Efendi and his Essay on Europe / Laurent Mignon -- Voyages on self-definion : the case of (Ahmad) Faris al-Shidyaq / Paul Starkey -- The journey in two Arabic novels / Richard van Leeuwen -- Bildungsroman, individual, and society / Boutros Hallaq -- Individual sentiment and national ideology / Robin Ostle -- Mapping Arab womanhood : subject, subjectivity, and identity politics in the biographies of Malak Hifni Nasif / Wen-chin Ouyang -- Male author, female protagonist : aspects of literary representation in Reșat Nuri Güntekin's C̦alikușu / Stephan Guth -- Marginalities in Palestinian literature : two case studies : Imil Habibi and Tawfiq Fayyad / Anna Zambelli-Sessona -- The representation of the Coptic Christians of Alexandria in Turabuha za ʻfaran and Ya banat iskandariya by Idwar al-Kharrat / Emma Westney -- Marginalised communities, marginalised individuals in the short stories of Yusuf al-Sharuni / Kate Daniels -- Language, individual, and community in Lebanese women's literature written in French / Michelle Hartman -- Redefining urban spaces in Cairo at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries / Jean-Luc Arnaud and Jean-Charles Depaule -- Imagining Beirut's reconstructed city centre / Michael F. Davie -- Text, space, and the individual in the poetry of Badr Shakir al-Sayyab : nationalism, revolution, and subjectivity / Wen-chin Ouyang -- Urban change and literary transformation : the Egyptian novel in the 1990s / Sabry Hafez.
• Publisher Details: London New York Strasbourg, France : I.B. Tauris European Science Foundation
• Publication Date: 2008
• Copyright Date: 2008
• Extent: 1 online resource (xii, 392 pages), illustrations, maps
• Subjects: 809/.933581182/2; Islamic literature -- Mediterranean Region -- History and criticism; Islam and culture -- Mediterranean Region -- History; Expression (Philosophy); TRAVEL -- Special Interest -- Literary; LITERARY CRITICISM -- General; Expression (Philosophy); Islam and culture; Islamic literature; Mediterranean Region; Electronic books; Criticism, interpretation, etc; History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781441605825; 1441605827; 9780857716736; 0857716735
• Related ISBNs: 9781845116507; 184511650X
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
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• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.