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Persian Parables - Form As Philosophy

by Hamid Dabashi

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 A major reassessment of the parable in Persian literature and its contribution to philosophical and creative thinking In this book, Hamid Dabashi offers a radical reconsideration of the parable in Persian literature, arguing that parabolic thinking is a mode of philosophical reflection. Dabashi eschews the conventional focus on the supposed moral or political allusions in these parables—the “moral of the story”—to allow the radical surfaces of their poetic disposition to reveal themselves. He turns his attention instead to what Kafka called “the fabulous yonder” as the defining moment of the parable. Focusing on a sustained course of Persian parables through the ages, Dabashi shows that the genre is not limited to masterpieces by such iconic poets as Sa’di, Rumi, Attar, and Sana’i. In fact, he argues, parabolic thinking has a much wider domain in Persian literature and philosophy and plays a distinct role within Persian and Islamic traditions. The cumulative result of these parables spread across Persian prose and poetry is an alam al-mithal, a parabolic world—a world of parables, similitudes, and verisimilitudes. Dabashi points to the moment in these works when life is absorbed into the formal fabric of the stories, erasing the borderline between fact and fantasy, history and story, the living and the dead, the real and the unreal—and life itself, as we live it, becomes a strange and captivating parable. With this circular self-referentiality, parables enable a way of thinking as a philosophical form.
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City Of Beginnings - Poetic Modernism In Beirut

by Robyn Creswell

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 How poetic modernism shaped Arabic intellectual debates in the twentieth century and beyondCity of Beginnings is an exploration of modernism in Arabic poetry, a movement that emerged in Beirut during the 1950s and became the most influential and controversial Arabic literary development of the twentieth century. Robyn Creswell introduces Englis
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Learning Zulu - A Secret History Of Language In South Africa

by Mark Sanders

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 "Why are you learning Zulu?" When Mark Sanders began studying the language, he was often asked this question. In Learning Zulu, Sanders places his own endeavors within a wider context to uncover how, in the past 150 years of South African history, Zulu became a battleground for issues of property, possession, and deprivation. Sanders combines eleme
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Security - Politics, Humanity, And The Philology Of Care

by John T. Hamilton

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 From national security and social security to homeland and cyber-security, "security" has become one of the most overused words in culture and politics today. Yet it also remains one of the most undefined. What exactly are we talking about when we talk about security? In this original and timely book, John Hamilton examines the discursive versatili
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Dictionary Of Untranslatables - A Philosophical Lexicon

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 Suitable for students, scholars, and general readers interested in the multilingual lives of some of our most influential words and ideas, this title covers close to 400 important philosophical, literary, and political terms that defy easy translation between languages and cultures. It includes terms from more than a dozen languages.
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The Divine Economy - How Religions Compete For Wealth, Power, And People

by Paul Seabright

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 A novel economic interpretation of how religions have become so powerful in the modern world
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The Portable Bunyan - A Transnational History Of The Pilgrim'S Progress

by Isabel Hofmeyr

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 Follows "The Pilgrim's Progress" as it circulates through multiple contexts - and into some 200 languages - focusing on Africa, where 80 of the translations occurred. This book accounts for how "The Pilgrim's Progress" traveled abroad with the Protestant mission movement, and was adapted and reworked by the societies into which it traveled.
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The Spread Of Novels - Translation And Prose Fiction In The Eighteenth Century

by Mary Helen Mcmurran

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 Fiction has always been in a state of transformation and circulation: how does this history of mobility inform the emergence of the novel? This title explores the active movements of English and French fiction in the eighteenth century and argues that the new literary form of the novel was the result of a shift in translation.
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The Translation Zone - A New Comparative Literature

by Emily Apter

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 Organized around a series of propositions that range from the idea that nothing is translatable to the idea that everything is translatable, this book examines the vital role of translation studies in the "invention" of comparative literature as a discipline.
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Translation And Violence

by Tiphaine Samoyault

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Translation Multiples - From Global Culture To Postcommunist Democracy

by Kasia Szymanska

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Translation Multiples - From Global Culture To Postcommunist Democracy

by Kasia Szymanska

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Literatureâ€™S Refuge - Rewriting The Mediterranean Borderscape

by William Stroebel

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Literatureâ€™S Refuge - Rewriting The Mediterranean Borderscape

by William Stroebel

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The Making Of Barbarians - Chinese Literature And Multilingual Asia

by Haun Saussy

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Translation And Violence

by Tiphaine Samoyault

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Persian Parables - Form As Philosophy

by Hamid Dabashi

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Persian Parables - Form As Philosophy

by Hamid Dabashi

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Sacred Language, Vernacular Difference - Global Arabic And Counter-Imperial Literatures

by Annette Damayanti Lienau

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Sacred Language, Vernacular Difference - Global Arabic And Counter-Imperial Literatures

by Annette Damayanti Lienau

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The Ecology Of Collective Behavior

by Deborah M. Gordon

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The Making Of Barbarians - Chinese Literature And Multilingual Asia

by Haun Saussy

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Vernacular English - Reading The Anglophone In Postcolonial India

by Akshya Saxena

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Vernacular English - Reading The Anglophone In Postcolonial India

by Akshya Saxena

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