{"product_id":"the-author-and-his-doubles-abdelfattah-kilito-9780815629313","title":"The Author and His Doubles: Essays on Classical Arabic Culture","description":"\u003cp\u003eMichael Cooperson's translation makes Abdelfattah Kilito's masterpiece available to English-speaking audiences for the first time. Called the most inventive and provocative critic of Arabic literature writing in the Middle East today, Kilito opens our perception with the same breadth of vision, seeking to define the traditional and historical forces that bind one writer to another and that inextricably link an author to a text. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis volume benefits from Cooperson's accomplished translation. While rigorously precise, it also allows the wit and humor and the lyricism of Kilito's prose full expression. Drawing on major themes of classical Arabic literature, the essays use simple, poetic language to argue that genre, not authorship, is the single most important feature of classical works. Kilito discusses love poetry and panegyric, the Prophet's Hadith, and the literary anecdote, as well as offering novel readings of recurrent themes such as memorization, plagiarism, forgery, and dream visions of the dead.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Abdelfattah Kilito\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0815629311\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780815629313\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Syracuse University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/01\/2001\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 154\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.43lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.02h x 5.57w x 0.50d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/01\/2002 pg. 1416","brand":"Abdelfattah Kilito","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43992496439551,"sku":"9780815629313","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_077df575-4ac1-4305-abe7-82b6820aae15.jpg?v=1683319257","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-author-and-his-doubles-abdelfattah-kilito-9780815629313","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}