[ilds] book DISARMING WORDS query
James Gifford
james.d.gifford at gmail.com
Fri Jul 3 13:36:02 PDT 2015
Ah, she does garner the citation, on p. 323!
https://books.google.ca/books?id=pnCCq7lLUyIC&lpg=PP1&dq=disarming%20words&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q=disarming%20words&f=false
I've just read through what's available online for the book and will
need to dig up a copy. Interesting prospect, but the missing parts look
the meatiest.
Best,
James
On 2015-07-03 1:30 PM, James Gifford wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I just saw this in a review of Shaden M. Tageldin's /DISARMING WORDS:
> EMPIRE AND THE SEDUCTIONS OF TRANSLATION IN EGYPT/ U California P, 2011.
>
> "Other chapters in this work pursue Tageldin’s interpretation of authors
> such as Carlyle, tracing the influence of his On Heroes (and Carlyle’s
> reading of Mohammed) on the influential translator Mohammed Al-Sibai,
> and Lawrence Durrell, engaging a more contemporary discussion of the
> notion of seduction through the main female character in his 1958 novel
> Montolive (one of the works making up the Alexandria Quartet) interwoven
> with a reading of John Ruskin."
>
> I wonder if anyone has seen this book? It makes me ponder if Anne
> Zahlan gets a citation where on is due...
>
> All best,
> James
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