Marginal Voices in Literature and Society: Individual and Society in the Mediterranean Muslim World

by Robin Ostle

Paperback

Published January 1, 2000

About the author

Dr Robin C. Ostle

Emeritus Research Fellow in Modern Arabic, Oxford University

FROM THE AUTHOR'S OFFICIAL PAGE:

"I give lectures and classes on modern Arabic Literature since 1850 covering theatre, the short story, the novel and modern poetry. Tutorials on all these topics supplement the lectures and classes, and these I give to students in their 2nd, 3rd and 4th years. I also help undergraduate students to organise and prepare special subjects or dissertations on a variety of themes within modern Arabic literature. Most years I act as an examiner in Arabic either for prelims, or the final honour school.

At the moment I have seven postgraduate students all doing research in modern Arabic literature. I direct a network of European scholars who work on images and representations of the individual in the Islamic Mediterranean world, and am busy editing the resulting publications. I am also in the process of setting up a research unit on Arabic poetry and poetics here in Oxford."