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[null,null,"Autore",null,"Hefter Thomas H."]
[null,null,"Titolo",null,"The reader in al-Jāḥiẓ : the epistolary rhetoric of an Arabic prose master / / Thomas Hefter [[electronic resource]]"]
[null,null,"Pubbl/distr/stampa",null,"Edinburgh : , : Edinburgh University Press, , 2014"]
[null,null,"ISBN",null,"1-4744-0096-5"]
[{"$nulls":4},"0-7486-9275-4"]
[null,null,"Descrizione fisica",null,"1 online resource (vii, 277 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)"]
[null,null,"Collana",null,"Edinburgh studies in classical Arabic literature"]
[null,null,"Disciplina",null,"892/.783408"]
[null,null,"Soggetti",null,"Books and reading - Islamic Empire"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Arabic literature - 750-1258 - History and criticism"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Islamic Empire Intellectual life"]
[null,null,"Lingua di pubblicazione",null,"Inglese"]
[null,null,"Formato",null,"Materiale a stampa"]
[null,null,null,"Livello bibliografico","Monografia"]
[null,null,null,"Note generali","Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Sep 2016)."]
[null,null,null,"Nota di bibliografia","Includes bibliographical references and index."]
[null,null,"Nota di contenuto",null,"Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1. The Addressee and the Occasion of Writing -- 2. Epistolary Confrontations and Dialectics of Parody -- 3. Undisclosed Origins and Homelands -- 4. Faulting Misers in the Introduction to Kitāb al-Bukhalāʾ -- 5. Passive Addressee and Critical Reader in the Abū al-ʿĀṣ/Ibn al-Tawʾam Debate -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index"]
[null,null,null,"Sommario/riassunto","The 9th-century essayist, theologian and encyclopaedist Amr b. Bahr al-Jahiz has long been acknowledged as a master of early Arabic prose writing. Many of his most engaging writings were clearly intended for a broad readership but were presented as letters to individuals. Despite the importance and quantity of these letters, surprisingly little academic notice has been paid to them. Now, Thomas Hefter takes a new approach in interpreting some of al-Jahiz's 'epistolary monographs'. By focussing on the varying ways in which he wrote to the addressee, Hefter shows how al-Jahiz hid his conversations on the page in order to guide (or manipulate) his actual readers and encourage them to engage with his complex materials. Key Features * Looks at letters from one of the most unique minds of the Abbasid era that cover sectarian and ethnic rivalries, ethical questions, intoxicating beverages and daily life *Relates al-Jahiz's experiments with the letter frame to his views on occupations, human geography and other issues of his day  *Examines the role of self-parody in al-Jahiz's fictional conversations with his addressees *Explores the rich interplay of "]
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