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The reader in al-Jāḥiẓ : the epistolary rhetoric of an Arabic prose master / Thomas Hefter.

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Thomas Hefter takes a new approach in interpreting some of al-Jāḥiẓ's "epistolary monographs." By focussing on the varying ways in which he wrote to the addressee, Hefter shows how al-Jāḥiẓ shaped his conversations on the page in order to guide (or manipulate) his actual readers and...

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Main Author: Hefter, Thomas H. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2014]
Series:Edinburgh studies in classical Arabic literature.
Subjects:
Jāḥiẓ, > -868 or 869 > Criticism and interpretation.
Jāḥiẓ, > -868 or 869 > Technique.
Books and reading > Islamic Empire.
Arabic literature > 750-1258 > History and criticism.
Islamic Empire > Intellectual life.
Jāḥiẓ, > -868 or 869.
Arabic literature.
Books and reading.
Intellectual life.
Technique.
Islamic Empire.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.

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Call Number: PJ7745.J3 Z753 2014
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