Browning Upon Arabia

A Moveable East
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-3-319-92647-6
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 240 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 3318 g

Browning Upon Arabia charts Robert Browning’s early and enduring engagement with the East, particularly the Arab East. This book highlights the complexities of Browning’s poetry, revealing Browning’s resistance to triumphalist and imperialist forms of Orientalism generated by many nineteenth-century British and European literary and scholarly portrayals of the East. Hédi A. Jaouad argues that Browning extensively researched the literature, history, philosophy, and culture of the East to produce poetry that is sensitive to its Eastern resources and devoted to confirming the interrelation of Northern and Eastern knowledge in pursuit of a new form of transcendental humanism.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Jaouad, Hédi A.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Einzelne Autoren: Monographien & Biographien
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Lyrik und Dichter
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Stoffe, Motive und Themen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction: Browning Upon Arabia.- 2. Browning and the Arabesque.- 3. Abd-el-Kadr, or ‘The Found Leader’.- 4. Browning and Ancient Arabic Poetry.- 5. Muléykeh: A Sufi Parable.- 6. The Return of the Druses: Djabal, Betwixt and Between.- 7. Luria:The Second Coming of the Moor.- 8. A Moveable East: Rabbis, Sages, and Dervishes.- 9. Conclusion: An Incipient Arabism?

Über Autor(innen)

Hédi A. Jaouad is Professor of French and Francophone Studies at Skidmore College, USA. He is also the author of Limitless Undying Love: The Ballad of John and Yoko & The Brownings (2015), The Brownings’ Shadow at Yaddo (2014), and Browningmania, America’s Love for Robert Browning (2016). He is theeditor of Revue CELAAN, a journal dedicated to the promotion of North African literature and art.