Recognition in the Arabic narrative tradition : discovery, deliverance and delusion /
According to Aristotle, a well-crafted recognition scene is one of the basic constituents of a successful narrative. It is the point when hidden facts and identities come to light. In the classic instance, a son discovers in horror that his wife is his mother and his children are his siblings. Arist...
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Edinburgh :
Edinburgh University Press,
[2016]
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| Series: | Edinburgh studies in classical Arabic literature.
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Table of Contents:
- A cognitive reading of the Qur'ānic story of Joseph
- Joseph in the Life of Muḥammad : prophecy in Tafsīr (exegesis), Sīrah (biography) and Ḥadīth (tradition)
- Joseph and his avatars
- Intertextuality and reading : the myth of deliverance in al-Faraj ba'd al-Shiddah
- Imposture and allusion in the picaresque maqāmah.