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Stranger fictions : a history of the novel in Arabic translation / Rebecca C. Johnson.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Johnson, Rebecca C. (Rebecca Carol), author.
Contributor:
JSTOR (Online Service)
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Arabic fiction--European influences.
Arabic fiction.
Arabic fiction--1801---History and criticism.
Translating and interpreting.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (xiii, 270 pages) : illustrations
Place of Publication:
Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2020.
[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [2020]
System Details:
text file
Contents:
Introduction: a history of the novel in mistranslation
Crusoe's Babel, missionaries' mistakes: translated origins
Stranger publics: the structural translation of the print sphere
Errant readers: the serialized novel's modern subject
Fictions of connectivity: the literary economy of Monte Cristo
Age of the comparative world picture: Jules Verne's colonial worlds
The melodramatic state: popular translation and the erring nation
Conclusion: invader fictions: national literature after translation.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 04, 2021).
Other Format:
Print version: Johnson, Rebecca C. (Rebecca Carol). Stranger fictions
ISBN:
9781501753305
1501753304
9781501753077
150175307X
Publisher Number:
99986265602
Access Restriction:
Restricted for use by site license.

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