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Author:   Karla Mallette
Publisher:   The University of Chicago Press
Imprint:   University of Chicago Press
ISBN:  

9780226796062

ISBN 10:   022679606
Pages:   264
Publication Date:   17 September 2021
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Part I: Group Portrait with Language Chapter 1: A Poetics of the Cosmopolitan Language Chapter 2: My Tongue Chapter 3: A Cat May Look at a King Part II: Space, Place, and the Cosmopolitan Language Chapter 4: Territory / Frontiers / Routes Chapter 5: Tracks Chapter 6: Tribal Rugs Part III: Translation and Time Chapter 7: The Soul of a New Language Chapter 8: On First Looking into Matta's Aristotle Chapter 9: I Became a Fable Chapter 10: A Spy in the House of Language Part IV: Beyond the Cosmopolitan Language Chapter 11: Silence Chapter 12: The Shadow of Latinity Chapter 13: Life Writing Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index

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Lives of the Great Languages is a keenly original and challenging intervention in the discussion of the life and death of languages. Anyone interested in the history of Arabic language and culture will find it informative and insightful. It is what we need in order to rethink the national and monolingual frame through which we discuss languages, literary traditions, and cultural expressions. --Wen-chin Ouyang, University of London

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Karla Mallette is professor of Mediterranean studies in the Department of Middle East Studies and professor of Italian in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at the University of Michigan. She is the author of European Modernity and the Arab Mediterranean and The Kingdom of Sicily, 1100-1250: A Literary History.

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