Impostures.

Author / Editor
Al-Hariri of Basra.
Cooperson, Michael, trans.

Title
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