All Outputs (32)

Framing and Meaning: Coincidence, Entanglement and Wonder in The Thousand and One Nights (2024)
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Ouyang, W.-C. (2024). Framing and Meaning: Coincidence, Entanglement and Wonder in The Thousand and One Nights. Journal of Arabic and Islamic studies, 24(1), 189-208. https://doi.org/10.5617/jais.10127

Framing in The Thousand and One Nights (Alf layla wa-layla) brings together not only people and their stories but also temporalities, geographies and destinies. It stages coincidental encounters of these in en- tangled story lines (story within story... Read More about Framing and Meaning: Coincidence, Entanglement and Wonder in The Thousand and One Nights.

Arabic Posthuman: Bee, Beehive and Beekeeper in a Reconceptualizing of the Human (2023)
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Ouyang, W.-C. (2023). Arabic Posthuman: Bee, Beehive and Beekeeper in a Reconceptualizing of the Human. Middle Eastern Literatures, 26(1), 138-143. https://doi.org/10.1080/1475262X.2023.2286106

Review of: Richard van Leeuwen. The Thousand and One Nights and Twentieth-Century Fiction: Intertextual Readings; and Muhsin J. al-Musawi. The Arabian Nights in Contemporary World Cultures (2022)
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Ouyang, W.-C. Review of: Richard van Leeuwen. The Thousand and One Nights and Twentieth-Century Fiction: Intertextual Readings; and Muhsin J. al-Musawi. The Arabian Nights in Contemporary World Cultures. Middle Eastern Literatures, 25(1), 66-68. https://doi.org/10.1080/1475262x.2022.2131240

Review of: Matthew Reynolds, ed. Prismatic Translation. Oxford: Legenda / Modern Humanities Research Association, 2019. Pp. 396. ISBN: 9781781887257 (2021)
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Ouyang, W.-C. (2021). Review of: Matthew Reynolds, ed. Prismatic Translation. Oxford: Legenda / Modern Humanities Research Association, 2019. Pp. 396. ISBN: 9781781887257

Review of: Rediscovery of the Islamic Classics: How Editors and Print Culture Transformed an Intellectual Tradition, by Ahmed el Shamsy. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2020. 312 pp. ISBN 9780691174563 (2020)
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Ouyang, W.-C. (2020). Review of: Rediscovery of the Islamic Classics: How Editors and Print Culture Transformed an Intellectual Tradition, by Ahmed el Shamsy. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2020. 312 pp. ISBN 9780691174563. Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 83(3), 525-527. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0041977X20002815

The Republic of Arabic Letters: Islam and the European Enlightenment. By Alexander Bevilacqua. Cambridge MA and London: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2018. Pp. 368. HB £28.95. ISBN 9780674975927. (2020)
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Ouyang, W.-C. (2020). The Republic of Arabic Letters: Islam and the European Enlightenment. By Alexander Bevilacqua. Cambridge MA and London: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2018. Pp. 368. HB £28.95. ISBN 9780674975927. Journal of Qur'anic Studies, 22(2), 116-119. https://doi.org/10.3366/jqs.2020.0428

Elizabeth Holt, Fictitious Capital: Silk, Cotton and the Rise of the Arabic Novel (2020)
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Ouyang, W.-C. (2020). Elizabeth Holt, Fictitious Capital: Silk, Cotton and the Rise of the Arabic Novel. Literature & History, 29(1), 132-134. https://doi.org/10.1177/0306197320907463

Review of: Metapoesis in the Arabic tradition: from modernists to Muḥdathū. by Huda Fakhreddine, Leiden/Boston, Brill, 2015 (2019)
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Ouyang, W.-C. (2019). Review of: Metapoesis in the Arabic tradition: from modernists to Muḥdathū. by Huda Fakhreddine, Leiden/Boston, Brill, 2015. Middle Eastern Literatures, 22(1), 59-61. https://doi.org/10.1080/1475262X.2019.1697507

Orientalism and World Literature: a re-reading of Taha Husayn's Cosmopolitanism (2018)
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Ouyang, W.-C. (in press). Orientalism and World Literature: a re-reading of Taha Husayn's Cosmopolitanism. Journal of Arabic Literature, 49, 125-152. https://doi.org/10.1163/1570064x-12341356

A Hairy State of Mind: Creativity in the Arabic Literary Imaginary (2018)
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Ouyang, W.-C. (in press). A Hairy State of Mind: Creativity in the Arabic Literary Imaginary. Al-Masāq: Journal of the Medieval Mediterranean, 30(1), 71-89. https://doi.org/10.1080/09503110.2018.1430456

Foreword (2017)
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Ouyang, W.-C. Foreword. Middle Eastern Literatures, 20(1), 1-1. https://doi.org/10.1080/1475262X.2017.1342439

صداقة الرجال والأخوّة في الثقافتين العربية والصينية / Male Friendship and Brotherhood in Arabic and Chinese Cultures (2015)
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Ouyang, W.-C. (2015). صداقة الرجال والأخوّة في الثقافتين العربية والصينية / Male Friendship and Brotherhood in Arabic and Chinese Cultures. Alif: maǧallaẗ al-balāġaẗ al-muqāranaẗ, 36, 145-172

This article explores the relationship between friendship and brotherhood and unpacks their twining in the literary imaginary in a comparative study of Arabic and Chinese writings. The purpose is to consider the efficacy of East-East comparative stud... Read More about صداقة الرجال والأخوّة في الثقافتين العربية والصينية / Male Friendship and Brotherhood in Arabic and Chinese Cultures.

The Qur'an and Identity in Contemporary Chinese Fiction (2014)
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Ouyang, W.-C. (2014). The Qur'an and Identity in Contemporary Chinese Fiction. Journal of Qur'anic Studies, 16(3), 63-84. https://doi.org/10.3366/jqs.2014.0166

How is it possible to comprehend and assess the impact of the Qur’an on the literary expressions of Chinese Muslims (Hui) when the first full ‘translations’ of the Qur’an in Chinese made by non-Muslims from Japanese and English appeared only in 1927... Read More about The Qur'an and Identity in Contemporary Chinese Fiction.

التناص والتحول: الذاكرة الجماعية في الرواية التاريخية الصينية والعربية / Intertextuality and Transformation: Collective Memory in Chinese and Arabic Historical Novels (2014)
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Ouyang, W.-C. (2014). التناص والتحول: الذاكرة الجماعية في الرواية التاريخية الصينية والعربية / Intertextuality and Transformation: Collective Memory in Chinese and Arabic Historical Novels. Alif: maǧallaẗ al-balāġaẗ al-muqāranaẗ, 109-135

Preface: Utopias, Dystopias and Heterotopias: The Spatiality of Human Experience and Literary Expression (2012)
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Ouyang, W.-C. (2012). Preface: Utopias, Dystopias and Heterotopias: The Spatiality of Human Experience and Literary Expression. Middle Eastern Literatures, 15(3), 227-231. https://doi.org/10.1080/1475262X.2012.726572

An Ethical Underworld?: Legendary Con Artists in Arabic Vernacular Fiction (2009)
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Ouyang, W.-C. (2009). An Ethical Underworld?: Legendary Con Artists in Arabic Vernacular Fiction. Oriente Moderno, 89(2), 407-424. https://doi.org/10.1163/22138617-08902014

Review of Roger Allen and D. S. Richards (eds), 'Arabic literature in the Post-Classical Period' (2008)
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Ouyang, W.-C. (2008). Review of Roger Allen and D. S. Richards (eds), 'Arabic literature in the Post-Classical Period'. International Journal of Middle East Studies, 40(4), 708-710. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0020743808081750

Fictive Mode, ‘Journey to the West’, and Transformation of Space: Discourses of Modernisation in ‘Ali Mubarak’s ‘Alam al-Din (2007)
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Ouyang, W.-C. (2007). Fictive Mode, ‘Journey to the West’, and Transformation of Space: Discourses of Modernisation in ‘Ali Mubarak’s ‘Alam al-Din. Comparative Critical Studies, 4(3), 331-358. https://doi.org/10.3366/E1744185408000062

Interview with Haifa Zangana (2007)
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Ouyang, W.-C. (2007). Interview with Haifa Zangana. Comparative Critical Studies, 4(3), 447-453. https://doi.org/10.3366/E1744185408000128

Conducted in London in May 2007 by Wen-Chin Ouyang

Genre, Ideologies, Genre Ideologies and Narrative Transformation (2004)
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Ouyang, W.-C. (2004). Genre, Ideologies, Genre Ideologies and Narrative Transformation. Middle Eastern Literatures, 7(2), 125-132. https://doi.org/10.1080/1366616042000236824