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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... woman and the virgin are anxious about the affairs of the Lord , so that they may be holy in body and spirit ; but ... WOMEN ( 11 : 2-16 ) I commend you because you remember me in everything and maintain the traditions just as I handed ...
... women , and me he has left with an invalid wife to take care of . " A thousand kinds of remorse would sting me for ... women . You don't know Vienna , and if you know it , you know the sort of Jewish women the gentiles wag their tongues ...
... women were sitting before their huts on the dusty ground , busy with the lice and wagging their tongues for all they were worth . An acrid odor of sweat hung about the group . Seedy Doneh was rummaging in the hair of a large woman who ...
Table des matières
Introduction to Section | 5 |
Poetry | 7 |
The Pyramid Texts 24642355 B C | 14 |
Droits d'auteur | |
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