The Rhetoric of Biography: Narrating Lives in Persianate Societies - Brossura

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ISBN 10: 0674060660 ISBN 13: 9780674060661

Casa editrice: Harvard Univ Center for Hellenic, 2011

Riassunto

In the context of a growing scholarly literature devoted to the topics of biography and autobiography, especially in the Arabic literary tradition, the essays in this volume explore the forms and meanings of these genres with particular reference to Persian writings, as well as to writings in Arabic and Turkish that were also composed in Persianate societies.

The authors address, among other topics, biographies and autobiographies of women; biographies of specific occupational groups, such as poets; the relation of traditional “lives of poets” to the reception of their literary works; intertextuality across biographical and autobiographical writings and across languages; and the processes involved in translating written biographies for the contemporary television screen.

Readers are invited to glimpse the lives of figures from the past and to appreciate the historical, cultural, and literary contexts that shaped their biographical and autobiographical narratives, and to reflect on the continuing significance of these narratives into the modern era.

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Narrating Lives in Persianate Societies

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• Editore: Harvard Univ Center for Hellenic
• Data di pubblicazione: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0674060660
• ISBN 13: 9780674060661
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 177
• Redattore: Marlow L.