Interpreting the Self
Subtitle: Autobiography in the Arabic Literary Tradition
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: May 7, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 346
ISBN-13: 9780520226678
Subjects: Asian studies; Biography: general; Literary studies: general; Literature: Texts; History and criticism; Autobiography; History; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Arabic; History: World; Middle East; African; History / Middle East; Authors, Arab; Middle East - General; Arabic literature; Biography
First sentence: European scholars from the late eighteenth through the first half of the twentieth century, including Goethe, Herder, and Dilthey, called for the collection and study of autobiographical writings.