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

Published Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2014]

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Description 1 online resource (288 pages) Series Edinburgh studies in classical Arabic literature Edinburgh studies in classical Arabic literature. Contents Machine generated contents note: 1. Addressee and the Occasion of Writing -- 2. Epistolary Confrontations and Dialectics of Parody -- 3. Undisclosed Origins and Homelands -- 4. Faulting Misers in the Introduction to Kitab al-Bukhala -- 5. Passive Addressee and Critical Reader in the Abu al-c As/Ibn al-Taw am Debate Summary 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 encourage them to engage with his complex materials Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-271) and index Notes English Print version record Subject Jāḥiẓ, -868 or 869 -- Criticism and interpretation Jāḥiẓ, -868 or 869 -- Technique SUBJECT Jāḥiẓ, -868 or 869 fast Ǧāḥiẓ, ʿAmr Ibn-Baḥr al- 776-869 gnd Subject Books and reading -- Islamic Empire Arabic literature -- 750-1258 -- History and criticism LITERARY CRITICISM -- African. LITERARY CRITICISM -- Middle Eastern. Arabic literature Books and reading Intellectual life Technique SUBJECT Islamic Empire -- Intellectual life Subject Islamic Empire Genre/Form Electronic books Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book ISBN 9780748692750 0748692754 9781306892001 1306892007 1474400965 9781474400961

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