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Document Type: | Book |
Title: | Homoeroticism in classical Arabic literature / edited by J.W. Wright Jr. and Everett K. Rowson. |
Added Author: | Wright, J.W. Rowson, Everett K. |
Publisher: | New York : Columbia University Press, c1997. |
Pages: | xix, 239 p. |
ISBN: | 0231105061 |
Notes: | (c) 1997 Columbia University PressIncludes index.Includes biographical notes on contributors. |
Contents: | Masculine allusion and the structure of satire in early 'Abbasid poetry / J.W. Wright JR. -- Male and female: described and compared / Franz Rosenthal -- Hierarchies of gender, ideology, and power in medieval Greek and Arabic dream literature / Steven M. Oberhelman -- The striptease that was blamed on Abu Bakr's Naughty son: was father being shamed, or was the poet having fun? (Ibn Quzman's Zajal No. 133) / James T. Monroe -- al-Sharif al-Taliq, Jacqes Lacan, and the poetics of abbreviation / Richard Serrano -- Two homoerotic narratives from Mamluk literature: al-Safadi's Law'at al-shaki and Ibn Daniyal's al-Mutayyam / Everett K. Rowson -- Le beau garcon sans merci: the homoerotic tale in Arabic and Persian / Paul Sprachman -- Intoxication and immortality: wine and associated imagery in al-Ma'arri's garden / Suzanne Pinckney Stetkevych. |
Descriptors: | Belles-lettres Literature, Ancient -- Erotic Poetry, Ancient -- 'Abbasi Classical literature Tales, Homoerotic Poetry, Homoerotic |
Location: | Oriental Institute, Oxford. OIL PJ7519 WRI |
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