Democratic criticism: poetics of incitement and the Muslim sacred

The poetics of incitement--a poetics found in texts originating in the West containing themes and representations of Islam hurtful to Muslims--became a "accepted, mainstream, and profitable genre of textual production" in the West. Raja's book urges a cosmopolitan mode of reading for...

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Main Author: Raja, Masood A. 1965- (Author)
Format: Electronic Book
Language:English
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Published: Amherst, Massachusetts Lever Press 2023
In:Year: 2023
Further subjects:B LITERARY CRITICISM / Généraux
B Islamic literature
B Reading
B Poetics
B Islamic literature History and criticism
B Islamic countries
B Criticism, interpretation, etc
B Reading (Islamic countries)
Online Access: Volltext (kostenfrei)

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