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Literary Criticism in Medieval Arabic Islamic Culture
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Knowledge and cultural dialects; function of poetry in medieval Arab-Islamic society; beginnings; fanfare of controversy; against all odds - the making of a tradition.

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Wen-chin Ouyang is Reader in Arabic Literature at SOAS. She is author of Literary Criticism in Medieval Arabic Islamic Culture: The Making of a Tradition (Edinburgh University Press, 1997), editor of New Perspectives on the Arabian Nights (Routledge, 2005) and co-editor (with Stephen Hart) of Companion to Magical Realism (Tamesis, 2005).

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The main virtue of this study is that it asks the sources questions never asked before and I know of no comparable book that deals with the status of the pre-modern Arab critic. -- Pierre Cachia, Columbia University, NewYork The main virtue of this study is that it asks the sources questions never asked before and I know of no comparable book that deals with the status of the pre-modern Arab critic.

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