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Routledge is proud to reissue the classicDictionary of Oriental Literatures, a work which continues to be an invaluable reference on the subject. Prepared by the Oriental Institute in Prague under the supervision of a Advisory Editorial Board of leading European and American scholars, this three-volume set is the fruit of the collaboration of over 150 orientalists from many parts of the world. Containing some 2000 articles, the Dictionary provides a concise summary of the literatures of China, Tibet, Japan, Korea, Mongolia, India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines; the literatures of West Asia and North… Africa, including the those of the ancient Near East and Egypt, and Central Asia and the Caucasus, of Turkey, Iran, and Afghanistan, along with Arab countries including Morocco, Tunisia and Algeria. The majority of entries give information about the life and work of the individual writers and poets of theclassical, medieval and modern periods of the literatures included and also attempt to evaluate their writings from the historical and aesthetic point of view. The remaining articles describe literary terms, genres, forms, schools and movements.
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