Stranger fictions : a history of the novel in Arabic translation / Rebecca C. Johnson.

By:

Johnson, Rebecca C. (Rebecca Carol) [Author]

Material type: Text

text

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computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9781501753305
9781501753077

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Electronic Books.

LOC classification:

PJ7577 .S773 2020

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Contents:

Crusoe's Babel, missionaries' mistakes: translated origins -- Stranger publics: the structural translation of the print sphere -- Errant readers: the serialized novel's modern subject -- Fictions of connectivity: the literary economy of Monte Cristo -- Age of the comparative world picture: Jules Verne's colonial worlds -- The melodramatic state: popular translation and the erring nation -- Conclusion: invader fictions: national literature after translation.

Subject: "This book argues that the circulation of European novels and European-style fiction in the nineteenth century Arabic world, and the multiple translation practices that enabled it, are central to the development of the Arabic novel"--

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Online Book (LOGIN USING YOUR MY CIU LOGIN AND PASSWORD)	G. Allen Fleece Library ONLINE	Non-fiction	PJ7577 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Link to resource	Available		on1147946915

Includes bibliographies and index.

Introduction: a history of the novel in mistranslation -- Crusoe's Babel, missionaries' mistakes: translated origins -- Stranger publics: the structural translation of the print sphere -- Errant readers: the serialized novel's modern subject -- Fictions of connectivity: the literary economy of Monte Cristo -- Age of the comparative world picture: Jules Verne's colonial worlds -- The melodramatic state: popular translation and the erring nation -- Conclusion: invader fictions: national literature after translation.

"This book argues that the circulation of European novels and European-style fiction in the nineteenth century Arabic world, and the multiple translation practices that enabled it, are central to the development of the Arabic novel"--

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