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Looking back at al-Andalus : the poetics of loss and nostalgia in medieval Arabic and Hebrew literature / by Alexander E. Elinson.

Title
Looking back at al-Andalus : the poetics of loss and nostalgia in medieval Arabic and Hebrew literature / by Alexander E. Elinson.
Author
Elinson, Alexander E.
Publication
Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2009.

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Description
x, 185 p.; 25 cm.
Series Statement
Brill studies in Middle Eastern literatures, 1571-5183 ; v. 34
Uniform Title
Brill studies in Middle Eastern literatures ; v. 34.
Subject
  • Arabic literature > History and criticism
  • Hebrew literature > History and criticism
  • Nostalgia in literature
  • Literatur
  • Andalusia (Spain) > In literature
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [171]-180) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
The poetics of loss and nostalgia in Muslim Spain -- Written in stone : the Andalusī rithāʼ al-mudun in the Arabic elegiac tradition -- Weeping over the poetic past : poetry into prose in al-Saraqusṭī's Qayrawan maqāma -- Al-Andalus and Sefarad in the Hebrew qaṣīda -- The view from al-Andalus : looking east, west, and south for Andalusī identity -- A final look back -- Appendix: Select Arabic and Hebrew texts.
ISBN
  • 9789004166806 (hardback : alk. paper)
  • 9004166807 (hardback : alk. paper)
LCCN
^^2008050877
OCLC
  • 276406226
  • SCSB-11248270
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library