Arabic, Persian, and Turkic Poetics: Towards a Post-Eurocentric Literary Theory [Hardcover]

Drawing on the richness and depth of the literatures from the Islamicate world,Arabic, Persian, and Turkic Poetics: Towards a Post-Eurocentric Literary Theorypaves the way for a more inclusive literary theory that is rooted in Arabic, Persian, and Turkic literary traditions and which fosters a deeper understanding of global literary discourse.Arabic, Persian, and Turkic Poetics: Towards a Post-Eurocentric Literary Theoryis a pioneering book that offers a fresh perspective on Arabic, Persian, and Turkic literature in their interrelations. The authors challenge Eurocentric paradigms while creating a framework for exploring these traditions on their own terms. Authored by an international team of scholars, each chapter centres the literary theoretical traditions of their respective literatures, with a focus on the discipline of comparative poetics ('ilm al-balāgha) in the Islamic world. By liberating the study of Islamicate literary texts from Eurocentric theoretical paradigms, the book paves the way for a more inclusive global discourse in literary studies. Specifically, our theoretical roots in comparative poetics and the rhetorical traditions of Arabic, Persian, and Turkic literatures will foster new methods of close reading that are in line with the aesthetic standards intrinsic to these texts and their traditions. Engaging and insightful, this book is essential reading for anyone interested in broadening their understanding of world literature and literary theory. Arabic, Persian, and Turkish poeticsare too often studied in isolation from one another, or in the stifling shadow of European poetics and European literary theory. This volume does the very opposite. It brings a series of important studiesby a wide-ranging, international cadre of scholarsof distinct and distinctive works from the Arabic, Persian, and Turkish traditions into conversation with each other. And, by excavating and foregrounding literary theoretical tl²