Fiction - Middle Eastern Reads
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Stranger Magic: Charmed States and the Arabian Nights
PaperbackOriginal price $24.00Original price $24.00 - Original price $24.00Original price $24.00Current price $21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /Our foremost theorist of myth, fairytales, and folktales explores the magical realm of the imagination where carpets fly, objects speak, dreams r...
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Elf Queens and Holy Friars: Fairy Beliefs and the Medieval Church
PaperbackOriginal price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95$39.99$39.99 - $39.99Current price $39.99| /In Elf Queens and Holy Friars Richard Firth Green investigates an important aspect of medieval culture that has been largely ignored by modern li...
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Gilgamesh: The Life of a Poem
PaperbackOriginal price $16.95 - Original price $16.95Original price $16.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /Reflections on a lost poem and its rediscovery by contemporary poetsGilgamesh is the most ancient long poem known to exist. It is also the newest...
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What Kind of a Thing Is a Middle English Lyric?
HardcoverOriginal price $89.95 - Original price $89.95Original price $89.95$97.99$97.99 - $97.99Current price $97.99| /What Kind of a Thing Is a Middle English Lyric? considers issues pertaining to a corpus of several hundred short poems written in Middle English be...
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The Permeable Self: Five Medieval Relationships
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /How, Barbara Newman asks, did the myth of the separable heart take such a firm hold in the Middle Ages, from lovers exchanging hearts with one an...
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Medieval Mobilities: Gendered Bodies, Spaces, and Movements
HardcoverOriginal price $139.99 - Original price $139.99Original price $139.99$153.99$153.99 - $153.99Current price $153.99| /This collection explores the intersection of gender and mobility across the Global Middle Ages. Medieval Mobilities questions how medieval people, ...
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The Body in Arabic Love Poetry: The Udhri Tradition
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /Jokha Alharthi re-appraises the relationship between love, poetry and Arab society in the 8th to 11th centuries. She avoids familiar clichés about...
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Iranian Literature After the Islamic Revolution: Production and Circulation in Iran and the World
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /In this critical analysis, Laetitia Nanquette explores how Iranian literature has functioned and circulated since the 1979 revolution until the pre...
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The Human-Animal Relationship in Pre-Modern Turkish Literature: A Study of The Book of Dede Korkut and The Masnavi, Book I, II
HardcoverOriginal price $90.00 - Original price $90.00Original price $90.00$112.99$112.99 - $112.99Current price $112.99| /The book covers the medieval Turkic societies' assiduous commitment to build spiritually significant and uninterrupted relationships with nonhuman ...
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Lyric Tactics: Poetry, Genre, and Practice in Later Medieval England
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95$26.99$26.99 - $26.99Current price $26.99| /What shall we make of medieval English lyrics? They have no fixed line or meter, no consistent point of view, and their content may seem misaligned...
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Contemporary Arabic Literature: Heritage and Innovation
HardcoverOriginal price $125.00 - Original price $125.00Original price $125.00$145.99$145.99 - $145.99Current price $145.99| /Volume I examines the ways in which contemporary Arab authors communicate with two major sources of inspiration: the first, is the rich Arabic lite...
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Palestinian and Arab-Jewish Cultures: Language, Literature, and Identity
HardcoverOriginal price $125.00 - Original price $125.00Original price $125.00$145.99$145.99 - $145.99Current price $145.99| /Part of a two-volume set, this volume examines the issues of commitment and hybridization in Arabic literature concentrating on Palestinian literat...
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Persian Literature as World Literature
PaperbackOriginal price $39.95 - Original price $39.95Original price $39.95$55.99$55.99 - $55.99Current price $55.99| /Confronting nationalistic and nativist interpreting practices in Persianate literary scholarship, Persian Literature as World Literature makes a ca...
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The Folktales of Palestine: Cultural Identity, Memory and the Politics of Storytelling
PaperbackOriginal price $39.95 - Original price $39.95Original price $39.95$55.99$55.99 - $55.99Current price $55.99| /Folktales are instrumental in ensuring the survival of oral traditions and strengthening communal bonds. Both the stories and the process of storyt...
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Contemporary Arab Women's Life Writing and the Politics of Resistance
HardcoverOriginal price $110.00 - Original price $110.00Original price $110.00$129.99$129.99 - $129.99Current price $129.99| /Drawing on autobiographical and postcolonial theories, Hiyem Cheurfa examines twenty-first-century Arab women's life writing as sites for the artic...
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The Index of Middle English Prose: Handlist XXIV: Manuscripts in New York City Libraries
HardcoverOriginal price $115.00 - Original price $115.00Original price $115.00$134.99$134.99 - $134.99Current price $134.99| /Handlist to the rich collection of manuscripts contained in five major libraries across New York, giving a full account of their provenance. This v...
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Women's Literary Cultures in the Global Middle Ages: Speaking Internationally
HardcoverOriginal price $140.00 - Original price $140.00Original price $140.00$162.99$162.99 - $162.99Current price $162.99| /Initiates a wider development of inquiries into women's literary cultures to move the reader beyond single geographical, linguistic, cultural and p...
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Post-Arab Spring Narratives: A Minor Literature in the Making
HardcoverOriginal price $119.99 - Original price $119.99Original price $119.99$133.99$133.99 - $133.99Current price $133.99| /This book looks at eight post Arab Spring novels in the context of Gilles Deleuze's and Félix Guattari's theory of minor literature. Ahdaf Soueif,...
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The Worlding of Arabic Literature: Language, Affect, and the Ethics of Translatability
PaperbackOriginal price $32.00 - Original price $32.00Original price $32.00$44.99$44.99 - $44.99Current price $44.99| /Critics have long viewed translating Arabic literature into English as an ethically fraught process of mediating between two wholly incommensurable...
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Female Desire in Chaucer's Legend of Good Women and Middle English Romance
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /An examination of female same-sex desire in Chaucer and medieval romance. In both medieval and modern contexts, women who do not desire men invite ...
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War Remains: Ruination and Resistance in Lebanon
HardcoverOriginal price $80.00 - Original price $80.00Original price $80.00$101.99$101.99 - $101.99Current price $101.99| /War Remains traces the poetics of ruination and resistance in select contemporary Lebanese wartime literature, cultural production, and sites of me...
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War Remains: Ruination and Resistance in Lebanon
PaperbackOriginal price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95$45.99$45.99 - $45.99Current price $45.99| /War Remains traces the poetics of ruination and resistance in select contemporary Lebanese wartime literature, cultural production, and sites of me...
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Transnational Culture in the Iranian Armenian Diaspora
HardcoverOriginal price $110.00 - Original price $110.00Original price $110.00$129.99$129.99 - $129.99Current price $129.99| /Transnational Culture studies the ways that diasporic Iranian Armenian authors and artists negotiate their identities as minoritized population wit...
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Islam, Science Fiction and Extraterrestrial Life: The Culture of Astrobiology in the Muslim World
PaperbackOriginal price $39.95 - Original price $39.95Original price $39.95$55.99$55.99 - $55.99Current price $55.99| /The Muslim world is not commonly associated with science fiction. Religion and repression have often been blamed for a perceived lack of creativity...
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