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Title: THE RHETORIC OF BIOGRAPHY
NARRATING LIVES IN PERSIANATE SOCIETIES
By: L. Marlow (Editor), Michael Cooperson, Stephen F. Dale
Format: Paperback

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ISBN 10: 0674060660
ISBN 13: 9780674060661
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Publisher: HARVARD UNIVERSITY, CENTER FOR HELLENIC STUDIES
Pub. date: 1 March, 2011
Series: Ilex Series
Pages: 184
Description: Within a growing scholarly literature devoted to the topics of biography and autobiography, especially in the Arabic literary tradition, the essays in this volume explore the forms and meanings of these genres with particular reference to Persian writings, as well as to writings in Arabic and Turkish that were also composed in Persianate societies.
Synopsis: In the context of a growing scholarly literature devoted to the topics of biography and autobiography, especially in the Arabic literary tradition, the essays in this volume explore the forms and meanings of these genres with particular reference to Persian writings, as well as to writings in Arabic and Turkish that were also composed in Persianate societies. The authors address, among other topics, biographies and autobiographies of women; biographies of specific occupational groups, such as poets; the relation of traditional "lives of poets" to the reception of their literary works; intertextuality across biographical and autobiographical writings and across languages; and the processes involved in translating written biographies for the contemporary television screen. Readers are invited to glimpse the lives of figures from the past and to appreciate the historical, cultural, and literary contexts that shaped their biographical and autobiographical narratives, and to reflect on the continuing significance of these narratives into the modern era.
Illustrations: 6 halftones
Publication: US
Imprint: Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies
Returns: Returnable
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