Nina Berman is Professor of Comparative Studies at The Ohio State University.
". . . truly a timely and welcome treatise . . . . A seminal
resource."
--C. L. Dolmetsch, Choice--C. L. Dolmetsch "Choice" (5/12/2012
12:00:00 AM)
"This wide-ranging study successfully brings together not only vast
geographic regions but a multidisciplinary and multifaceted
analysis of literary works embedded within their social, political,
and economic context--a remarkable challenge."
--Douglas McGetchin, The German Quarterly--Douglas McGetchin "The
German Quarterly" (5/1/2012 12:00:00 AM)
"The great strength of this book is the scope of the historical
survey, in terms of the period covered, the variety of source
material (travel reports, high-brow literature, scholarship,
polemics, art works, etc.), and the aspects which indeed comprise,
as the author explains, literary, political, economic, and social
developments." --Anna Akasoy, Journal of Islamic Studies--Anna
Akasoy "Journal of Islamic Studies" (10/25/2012 12:00:00 AM)
"The title alone is ambitious, but the true scope of German
Literature on the Middle East is yet greater: to situate a thousand
years of literature, Nina Berman argues, requires the political,
economic, social and material backgrounds of each era, area and
empire of both the German-speaking and Middle Eastern peoples in
question, as well as their complex, shifting relations. Her study
marshals extraordinary amounts of diverse information to deploy a
narrative of enduring and evolving tropes of the Middle East,
presenting genres from grisly newspaper reports to travelogues,
opera to ethnographies, showing continuities and discontinuities of
the attitudes of elites and masses alike."
--Times Literary Supplement--Lydia Wilson "Times Literary
Supplement" (2/26/2014 12:00:00 AM)
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