Writing and Cultural Influence: Studies in Rhetorical History, Orientalist Discourse, and Post-Colonial Criticism (Comparative Cultures and Literatures, V. 18)

The Ancient Near East In Classical Rhetoric -- Plato And The Egyptian Myth Of Writing -- Solon's Egyptian Story -- Roman Rhetoric And The Controversy Over Asianism -- From Greek Into Arabic -- The Rhetoric In The Commentary Tradition Of Averroes -- Imperial Grammars: The Rhetoric Of Eighteenth- And Nineteenth-century Orientalist Discourse -- Sir William Jones's A Grammar Of The Persian Language -- Nathaniel Halhed's A Grammar Of The Bengal Language -- Duncan Forbes's A Grammar Of The Hindustani Language -- The Colonial Subject Speaks Back: Chinua Achebe's Critique Of Conrad's Heart Of Darkness -- The Colonial Encounter In Heart Of Darkness -- Chinua Achebe's Critique Of Heart Of Darkness -- Arrow Of God: An African Counter-narrative -- Writing In Exile: Constructing Audiences And Identities In Foreign Lands -- Manoucher Parvin's Cry For My Revolution, Iran -- Hala Deeb Jabbour's A Woman Of Nazareth -- Taghi Modarressi's The Pilgrim's Rules Of Etiquette -- Marwan Hassan's The Confusion Of Stones. Lahcen E. Ezzaher. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [137]-142) And Index. The Near East has played an important part in the construction of the western cultural tradition from the classical period to the present. Current scholarship on cultural constructs is caught in more challenging implications of critical theory and is, therefore, becoming more and more irregular, interdisciplinary, and multicultural. Although the chapters in this book treat specific historical situations involving the Near East and the Western world, together they constitute a unifying thread that brings together a series of unique frames of a complex picture.