#  Jan 25 Public Lecture: Maurice Pomerantz (Institute for Advanced Study) 

 



####  calendar\_today Date and Time 

 **January 25, 2016** 

 04:00PM - 05:30PM EST 

####  pin\_drop Location 

 **6 Divinity Ave., #201**  



 

 



 

**Maurice Pomerantz,**

Assistant Prof. of Literature, New York University, Abu Dhabi  
Member 2015-16, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton

presents a lecture:

**"The *Maqāmāt* Between Philology and World Literature"**

**Monday January 25, 4:00pm ~~ 6 Divinity Ave., #201**

*Maqāmāt* relate the exploits of roving trickster protagonists who use ornate linguistic devices to defraud unsuspecting victims. Like their rogue anti-heroes who are always on the move, *Maqāmāt* also manifest an amazing capacity to travel and transform. Over the course of a millennium, versions of *Maqāmat* tales spread to nearly all regions of the Muslim world from West Africa to East India.

Tracing the long life of a literary form now known only to specialists, this lecture argues for the necessity of combining two radically different ways of studying texts and their historical circulation: the close reading of Philology and the distant reading of World Literature. The lecture presents a new model for the study of a pre-modern literary form that explores the textual past and engages with contemporary literary scholarship.



 

 



 

 

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