The Imagination Unbound : Al-Adab Al-'Aja'ibi and the Literature of the Fantastic in the Arabic Tradition

ISBN
9780863566363
Author Abu-Deeb, Kamal
Format Trade Cloth
Details
  • 9.1" x 7.0" x 0.8"
  • Active Record
  • Individual Title
  • Books
  • 2007
  • 240
  • Yes
  • Print
  • 25
  • PJ7531.I4 2007
The fantastic in literature is not a modern European invention; it is present in Arabic narrative dating from the ninth century. The Imagination Unbound contains an Arabic and English study of al-Adab al-'Aja'ibi , with the original Arabic text of Kitab al-Azama (The Book of Greatness) and commentary by the author. Kamel Abu-Deeb holds the chair in Arabic at the University of London. A poet and essayist, he has published many books and papers in both Arabic and English and has been co-editor of the avant-garde journal Mawaqif .