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PROF Wen-Chin Ouyang's Outputs (10)

Ethical Living Through Stories: Encounters with Adab (2025)
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Ouyang, W.-C. (2025). Ethical Living Through Stories: Encounters with Adab. I. B. Tauris in Association with The Institute of Ismaili Studies. https://doi.org/10.5040/9780755657520

Literature has for thousands of years served as a space in which people have negotiated the ethics of daily life. In the Islamic tradition, the broad concept of adab spans ethical instruction and literary culture. Literature classified asadab was int... Read More about Ethical Living Through Stories: Encounters with Adab.

Multilingual Literature as World Literature (2021)
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Hiddleston, J., & Ouyang, W.-C. (Eds.). Multilingual Literature as World Literature. Bloomsbury. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781501360121

Multilingual Literature as World Literature examines and adjusts current theories and practices of world literature, particularly the conceptions of world, global and local, reflecting on the ways that multilingualism opens up the borders of language... Read More about Multilingual Literature as World Literature.

The Arabian Nights: An Anthology (2014)
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Ouyang, W.-C. (Ed.). (2014). The Arabian Nights: An Anthology. Random House

This unique anthology draws on the best of English translations, from the earliest to the most recent. Pride of place goes to nineteenth-century Orientalists Richard Burton, Edward W. Lane and John Payne, who combined meticulous scholarship with imag... Read More about The Arabian Nights: An Anthology.

Politics of Nostalgia in the Arabic Novel: Nation-State, Modernity and Tradition (2013)
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Ouyang, W.-C. (2013). Politics of Nostalgia in the Arabic Novel: Nation-State, Modernity and Tradition. Edinburgh University Press. https://doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9780748655694.001.0001

Mad love in the Arabic novel is an expression of the anxiety surrounding Arabic novel's search for form. It is symptomatic of nostalgia for the future that, in the absence of a viable trajectory in the Arab world's disappointment in the nation-state... Read More about Politics of Nostalgia in the Arabic Novel: Nation-State, Modernity and Tradition.

New perspectives on Arabian nights: ideological variations and narrative horizons (2005)
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Ouyang, W.-C., & van Gelder, G. J. (Eds.). (2005). New perspectives on Arabian nights: ideological variations and narrative horizons. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315874166

Adopting a multi-disciplinary approach, this comparative study of a selection of The Arabian Nights stories in a cross-cultural context, brings together a number of disciplines and subject areas to examine the workings of narrative. It predominantly... Read More about New perspectives on Arabian nights: ideological variations and narrative horizons.