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  1. Mar 8, 2015 · In applying the standards of modern literary criticism to medieval Arabic literature, Andras Hamori concentrates on those aspects of the literature that appear most alien to modern Western taste: the limitation of themes, the sedimentation with conventions, and the use of elusive patterns of composition. The first part of the book approaches Arabic literature from the historical point of view ...

    • Andras Hamori
    • March 08, 2015
  2. 66 ANDRAS HAMORI culture it is a comfortingly long way to perplexities about the Dark Lady's person. Embedded in the chronicles of 'Umar ibn an-Nu'min and his descendants in the Thousand and One Nights, are the twin tales of 'Aziz and 'Aziza, and Princess Dunya and Tij al-Mulfik. (1) The first one tells a story of innocent devotion wasted on a ...

  3. Andras Hamori. Cleveland E. Dodge Professor of Near Eastern Studies, Emeritus. Email. hamori@princeton.edu. I did my undergraduate work at Princeton in what was then called the Department of Oriental Languages and Literatures; then went to Harvard, studied Arabic and ancient Semitic languages, and wrote a dissertation in comparative Semitic ...

  4. The third part of the book deals with methods of composition in prose through an examination of the orders and disorders in two tales from the Arabian Nights. Originally published in 1974. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press.

    • Andras Hamori
    • 1974
  5. Apr 19, 2016 · The third part of the book deals with methods of composition in prose through an examination of the orders and disorders in two tales from the Arabian Nights. Originally published in 1974. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press.

  6. András’s pioneering book, On the Art of Medieval Arabic Literature, was published in 1974. One reviewer described the book as explaining the “alien aesthetic phenomena” of Arabic poetry “in terms familiar to a Western reader,” and gave it high marks as “the only accessible introduction to the field, the only one that gives the nonspecialist reader the sense of what the Arabic ...

  7. The third part of the book deals with methods of composition in prose through an examination of the orders and disorders in two tales from the Arabian Nights . Originally published in 1974. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press.

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