Ginza Rba

Ginza Rba
Author: Majid Fandi Al-Mubaraki
Publisher:
Total Pages: 171
Release: 1998
Genre: Mandaean language
ISBN: 9780958570527

Classical Arabic Humanities in Their Own Terms

Classical Arabic Humanities in Their Own Terms
Author: Beatrice Gruendler
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 648
Release: 2008-06-30
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 904742381X

The volume brings together approaches to different elements of Arabic-Islamic civilization, mainly in the areas of linguistics, literature, literary theory, and prosody, but also including religion, ritual, economics, and zoology. Contributions also touch upon the adjacent areas of the Old Iranian, Persian, Greek and Byzantine written traditions. Some take as their points of departure specific Arabic words (cat, giraffe) or morphemes; others explore literary genres, subgenres (oration, ode, macaronic poem, travel narrative) or figures within them (the trickster, the devil). Cultural concepts such as wishing, gift-giving or discourse are treated, as are aspects of broader phenomena, such as the role of gender in dream interpretation or the relative merits of luxury goods and mass-produced commodities.

The Memoirs of Lady Hyegyong

The Memoirs of Lady Hyegyong
Author: JaHyun Kim Haboush
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 400
Release: 2013-09-14
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0520957296

Lady Hyegyong's memoirs, which recount the chilling murder of her husband by his father, form one of the best known and most popular classics of Korean literature. From 1795 until 1805 Lady Hyegyong composed this masterpiece, depicting a court life Shakespearean in its pathos, drama, and grandeur. Presented in its social, cultural, and historical contexts, this first complete English translation opens a door into a world teeming with conflicting passions, political intrigue, and the daily preoccupations of a deeply intelligent and articulate woman. JaHyun Kim Haboush's accurate, fluid translation captures the intimate and expressive voice of this consummate storyteller. Reissued nearly twenty years after its initial publication with a new foreword by Dorothy Ko, The Memoirs of Lady Hyegyong is a unique exploration of Korean selfhood and an extraordinary example of autobiography in the premodern era.