Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 The Addressee and the Occasion of Writing
- 2 Epistolary Confrontations and Dialectics of Parody
- 3 Undisclosed Origins and Homelands
- 4 Faulting Misers in the Introduction to Kitāb al-Bukhalāʾ
- 5 Passive Addressee and Critical Reader in the Abū al-ʿĀṣ/Ibn al-Tawʾam Debate
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
Bibliography
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 September 2016
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 The Addressee and the Occasion of Writing
- 2 Epistolary Confrontations and Dialectics of Parody
- 3 Undisclosed Origins and Homelands
- 4 Faulting Misers in the Introduction to Kitāb al-Bukhalāʾ
- 5 Passive Addressee and Critical Reader in the Abū al-ʿĀṣ/Ibn al-Tawʾam Debate
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- The Reader in al-JahizThe Epistolary Rhetoric of an Arabic Prose Master, pp. 263 - 271Publisher: Edinburgh University PressPrint publication year: 2014