Readings in oriental literature : arabian, indian, and islamic / Jalal Uddin Khan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Khan, Jalal Uddin, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Arabic literature--History and criticism.

Arabic literature.

Arabic literature--20th century--History and criticism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (495 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne, England : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Readings in Oriental Literature: Arabian, Indian, and Islamic is an up-to-date elucidation of some diverse and discrete, yet common and classic, subjects and authors, and the distinctive oriental elements present in them. The book, composed of fourteen essays, includes ancient Arabian poetry; the Arabian Nights; the Arabian desert; the Arabian influence on Melville; Shelley's Orientalia; Coleridge's Kubla Khan; the influence of English Romantics on the Bengali Tagore; Bangladesh's national anthem, and her exiled daughter Taslima Nasreen; the Victorian reaction to British India; religious diver

Contents:

""CONTENTS""; ""FOREWORD""; ""ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS""; ""PART 1""; ""CHAPTER ONE""; ""CHAPTER TWO""; ""CHAPTER THREE""; ""CHAPTER FOUR""; ""CHAPTER FIVE""; ""PART 2""; ""CHAPTER SIX""; ""CHAPTER SEVEN""; ""CHAPTER EIGHT""; ""CHAPTER NINE""; ""PART 3""; ""CHAPTER TEN""; ""CHAPTER ELEVEN""; ""CHAPTER TWELVE""; ""CHAPTER THIRTEEN""; ""CHAPTER FOURTEEN""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed February 18, 2015).

ISBN:

1-4438-7516-3

OCLC:

905864016