Impostures.
- Author / Editor
- Al-Hariri of Basra.
Cooperson, Michael, trans.
Impostures.
- Published
- New York: New York University Press, 2020.
- Physical Description
- li, 492 pp.
- Series
- Library of Arabic Literature, no. 65.
- Description
- Translates al-Harırı's Arabic classic "Maqamat," with sections imitating
or emulating the styles of various writers in English (Mark Twain, Virginia
Woolf, John Lyly, etc.). The "Author's Retraction" is "modeled on" Ret.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion
Chaucer's Retraction