The Dictionary of Oriental Literatures fills a long-felt gap in
Western literature by presenting a concise summary, in three
volumes and about 2000 articles, of the literatures of Asia and
North Africa. The first volume describes the Chinese, Tibetan,
Japanese, Korean and Mongolian literatures; the second covers the
area of South and South-East Asia, comprising, besides all
literatures of India and Pakistan, those of Nepal, Bangladesh, Sri
Lanka, Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, Indonesia, Malaysia
and the Philippines; and the third is devoted to 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,
Afghanistan and of the various 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 the
classical, 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. The Dictionary has
been prepared by the Oriental Institute in Prague under the
supervision of a Advisory Editorial Board of European and American
scholars of international reputation and is unique in that it is
the fruit of the collaboration of over 150 orientalists from many
parts of the world.
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