Readings in Oriental Literature

Arabian, Indian, and Islamic

Jalal Uddin Khan (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

495 Seiten

2015 | Unabridged edition
Cambridge Scholars Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-4438-7209-6 (ISBN)

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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 diversity and Islam in the West; the Muslim East in English literature; and reading literature from an Islamic point of view. Marked by an originality of approach and a freshness and simplicity, the book takes note of contemporary theoretical, interdisciplinary and cultural discourse drawn from literature, history, politics and religion as necessary. However, it is far from being unnecessarily weighed down by the loaded clichés, oft-repeated jargon and overused euphemisms of modern literary or critical theory. The result is, regardless of its specialized treatment of otherwise commonplace or well-known texts or topics, that the overall discussion is as lucid, introductory and expository as it is deep and scholarly, making the book accessible and understandable to non-specialist readers, in addition to specialist researchers and academics.

A graduate from New York University, Dr Jalal Uddin Khan is a Professor of English at the University of Nizwa, Oman. He has published numerous articles in various Asian and Western journals. His recent publications include this book and its companion, Perspectives: Romantic, Victorian, and Modern Literature, also published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing (2015). Dr Khan’s teaching and research interests include Old and Middle English; Shakespeare; the long and late eighteenth century; Romantic/Victorian poetry; Romantic women poets; children’s literature; Western travel literature about the Middle East through the nineteenth century; and the growth and development of Canadian literature in the early nineteenth century. He has vast experience of teaching a broad range of literature courses in all the major periods and genres of English and American literature, both at introductory/survey and higher levels. This enables him to teach as a generalist as well as a specialist, and contribute to multicultural and interdisciplinary offerings at an institution of higher learning. To both his teaching and scholarship, he brings a sense of global literary relations and international cultural connections, which helps him to participate in the enlightened endeavor of fostering mutual understanding between the Oriental and the Western.

Verlagsort	Newcastle upon Tyne
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 212 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-4438-7209-1 / 1443872091
ISBN-13	978-1-4438-7209-6 / 9781443872096
Zustand	Neuware