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Arabic Literature to the End of the Umayyad Period
T. M. Johnstone
Hardcover - $380.95
The Cambridge History of Arabic Literature is the first general survey of the field to have been published in English for over fifty years and the first attempted in such detail in a multi-volume form. Guided by an international advisory editorial bo ...
Colonization, Violence, and Narration in White South African Writing : Andre Brink, Breyten Breytenbach, and J.M. Coetzee
Rosemary Jolly
Paperback - $59.95
The Wine Song in Classical Arabic Poetry : Abu Nuwas and the Literary Tradition
Maxwell F. Kennedy
Hardcover - $460.95
Classical Arab civilization produced the most extensive and highly developed bacchic tradition in world literature, In this book, Kennedy traces the history of wine poetry from its origins in sixth century Arabia to its heyday in Baghdad at the turn ...
Kingdom of Strangers (P)
Elias Khoury
Paperback - $40.95
"This mosaic portrayal of its author's native Lebanon besieged by civil war in fact expands into a generalized examination of the chaos and despair suffered by families everywhere during wartime ... (I)n the tale of Widad the Circassian peasant girl ...
Literature of Africa
G. D. Killam
Hardcover - $117.95
As more works of African Literature are being incorporated into the Language Arts and Cultural Studies curriculum, it becomes increasingly important to offer students and educators a meaningful context in which to explore these works. As part of Gree ...
The Epic of Gilgamesh
Maureen G. Kovacs
Hardcover - $107.95
Since the discovery over one hundred years ago of a body of Mesopotamian poetry preserved on clay tablets, what has come to be known as the Epic of Gilgamesh has been considered a masterpiece of ancient literature. It recounts the deeds of a hero-kin ...
The Epic of Gilgamesh
Maureen Gallery Kovacs
Paperback - $25.95
Since the discovery over one hundred years ago of a body of Mesopotamian poetry preserved on clay tablets, what has come to be known as the Epic of Gilgamesh has been considered a masterpiece of ancient literature. It recounts the deeds of a hero-kin ...