Literatures of the Middle East: From Antiquity to the PresentWillis Barnstone, Tony Barnstone Prentice Hall, 2003 - 487 pages This extraordinary anthology gathers together a broad selection of representative, authoritative writings--spanning antiquity to the present--from the non-Western civilizations of the Middle East. It combines extensive introductions, headnotes, and bibliographies with excellent literary translations of the best contemporary and classical writers. KEY TOPICS: The selections reflect literary, religious, and philosophical traditions and reveal--despite cultural differences--the universality of life experiences. Primary literary genres (poetry, fiction, and drama) as well as key religions, philosophical, historic, aesthetic, biographical and political texts are covered. MARKET: For readers of Middle Eastern, World, and Non-Western Literature. |
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... mouth . There I found figs and dates , and all excellent kinds of veg- etables . Sycamore figs were there and notched sycamore figs . And cu- cumbers as if they were cultivated . Fish were there and birds . There was not anything which ...
... mouth the snake cast water , a flood behind the woman , so he might sweep her away on the river . 16But the earth helped the woman , and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed the river which the dragon had cast out of his mouth ...
... mouth like the mouth of a lion . And the dragon gave him his power and his throne and fierce power of dominion . 3One of his heads seemed to be stricken to death but the wound causing his death was healed and the whole world marveled ...
Table des matières
Introduction to Section | 5 |
Poetry | 7 |
The Pyramid Texts 24642355 B C | 14 |
Droits d'auteur | |
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