Sachgebiete

Beschreibung:

216 S. Gebundene Ausgabe.

Bemerkung:

Tadellos. - Inhalt: Marianne Marroum / Ibn al-Muqaffac's Kalîla wa-Dimna and Boccaccio's On Poetry: A Hybrid Poetics and Avant-garde Hermeneutics -- Jaakko Hämeen-Anttila / Short Stories in Classical Arabic Literature: The Case of Khàlid and Umm Salama -- Geert Jan van Gelder / Literary Criticism as Literature -- Philip F. Kennedy / Love in the Time of Pilgrimage or A Lost Maqäma of Ibn Durayd? -- Beatrice Gruendler / Tawqf (Apostille): Royal Brevity in the Pre-modern Islamic Appeals Court -- Everett K. Rowson / The Aesthetics of Pure Formalism: A Letter of Qabüs b. Vushmgïr -- Vahid Behmardi / Rhetorical Values in Buyid Persia According to Badic al-Zaman al-Hamadhani -- Lale Behzadi / The Art of Entertainment: Forty Nights with Abu Hayyân al-Tawhïdî -- Bilal Orfali / The Art of the Muqaddima in the Works of Abu Mansür al-Thacâlibï -- Angelika Neuwirth / The double entendre (tawriya) as a Hermeneutical Stratagem: A 'Forensic Maqäma' by Abu Muhammad al-Qäsim b. cAli al-Harîrï. - The object of this collection of essays is to present various approaches to the evolution of Arabic prose in the Abbasid age when the art of writing reached the climax of artificiality under the influence of several cultural factors. While poetry always had the virtue of being the essence of verbal arts among Arabs, prose, for a long time, maintained its role as a major vehicle for transmitting information, presenting historical or scientific material or elaborating theological issues. However, as time passed during the Abbasid age, with all the social and cultural changes it involved, prose was gaining merits similar to those that poetry manipulated in Arabic literature for centuries. The essays focus on types of prose in Arabic literature which evidently demonstrate certain artistic features that can be classified within the framework of rhetoric. This applies to both form and theme. In this volume, the editors are interested in presenting some aspects that pertain to the evolution and the progress of artistic prose, not only as a transmitter of knowledge and information, but also as a genre which was chosen and seen, intentionally, by the authors as a means for achieving a specific purpose through specific stylistic and thematic effects. (Vwerlagstext). ISBN 9783899136784