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"Its availability to Anglophone scholars of Arabic literature, as well as students of comparative literature and literary theory, [is] an invaluable service to the literary profession.-- ""Terry DeYoung, author of Placing the Poet: Badr Shakir al-Sayyab and Postcolonial Iraq"" One of the most original and imaginative Arab literary critics working today. A keen close-reader, he is driven by a sense of playfulness and irony, and is untrammeled by Western literary theory today. . . . Essential. -- ""Choice"""

Its availability to Anglophone scholars of Arabic literature, as well as students of comparative literature and literary theory, [is] an invaluable service to the literary profession.--Terry DeYoung, author of Placing the Poet: Badr Shakir al-Sayyab and Postcolonial Iraq One of the most original and imaginative Arab literary critics working today. A keen close-reader, he is driven by a sense of playfulness and irony, and is untrammeled by Western literary theory today. . . . Essential. --Choice

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Abdelfattah Kilito is an acclaimed Moroccan novelist, essayist, and critic. He has written several important works on classical Arabic literature, both in French and Arabic, many of which have been translated into numerous languages, including French, German, Spanish, Italian, and English. He is the recipient of numerous awards, including the French Academy Award in 1996. Wail Hassan is associate professor of comparative literature at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is the author of Tayeb Salih: Ideology and the Craft of Fiction also published by Syracuse University Press.

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