Books in the Studies in Oriental Culture and Literature series

Published in the 1950s-60s, Sh'ir magazine led a change in the role and form of Arabic poetry, supporting modernization in Arab thinking and writing through its articles of literary criticism, translated and original Arabic poetry, all promoting a new kind of secular and personal poetics, including that of prose-poetry and vision and visual poems.

The nine essays of this volume, devoted to the broadly understood problem of the definition and usage of Hindi, tackle the issue of what "Hindi" is, and analyse its various aspects as official language, link language, language of diasporas, language of cultural and religious tradition, language used in economy and business, etc.

The author provides a selection of short stories in Arabic Languages from the Gulf countries (Saudi Arabia, Oman, Bahrain, Qatar, Emirates and Kuwait) as well as an outline of modern writing. The book visualizes a unique literary discourse of social, political and cultural changes.

This book is a hermeneutic analysis of the main themes in the poetry of Ashok Vajpeyi. The author shows how the poet combines both the Indian and Western cultural traditions and locates his poetry "between civilizations". She portrays a significant case of the cultural encounter of the East and the West in the modern globalized world.

The contributions in this book address a vast variety of questions concerning the sources and mutual inspirations in Oriental and European literatures. The authors discuss selected texts from both historical and synchronic perspectives. They reveal and scrutinise the sedimented layers in their search for the original.