Writing and cultural influence studies in rhetorical history, orientalist discourse, and post-colonial criticism /
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
P. Lang,
2003.
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| Series: | Comparative cultures and literatures ;
v. 18. |
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Table of Contents:
- Ch. 1. The Ancient Near East in Classical Rhetoric
- Plato and the Egyptian Myth of Writing
- Solon's Egyptian Story
- Roman Rhetoric and the Controversy over Asianism
- Ch. 2. From Greek into Arabic
- The Rhetoric in the Commentary Tradition of Averroes
- Ch. 3. Imperial Grammars: The Rhetoric of Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Orientalist Discourse
- Sir William Jones's A Grammar of the Persian Language
- Nathaniel Halhed's A Grammar of the Bengal Language
- Duncan Forbes's A Grammar of the Hindustani Language
- Ch. 4. The Colonial Subject Speaks Back: Chinua Achebe's Critique of Conrad's Heart of Darkness
- The Colonial Encounter in Heart of Darkness
- Chinua Achebe's Critique of Heart of Darkness
- Arrow of God: An African Counter-Narrative
- Ch. 5. Writing in Exile: Constructing Audiences and Identities in Foreign Lands
- Manoucher Parvin's Cry for My Revolution, Iran
- Hala Deeb Jabbour's A Woman of Nazareth
- Taghi Modarressi's The Pilgrim's Rules of Etiquette
- Marwan Hassan's The Confusion of Stones.