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Stephan Guth

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Background

  • studied "Islamwissenschaft", Modern German Literature, and Philosophy at the universities of Bonn & Tübingen (Germany)
  • 1980/81 Listener at Cairo University
  • 1987 MA, 1992 PhD (both from Bonn Univ.), 2003 PD (Privatdozent, Univ. of Bern), 2009 Prof. (Univ. of Oslo)
  • 1992-96 Fellow at the German Institute for Oriental Studies, Istanbul and Beirut
  • 1993 guest lecturer at FU Berlin
  • 1996-2007 teaching and research at the Institute for Islamic and Middle East Studies, University of Bern, Switzerland
  • 2005/06 guest lecturer and vice-head of department at Munich University

Teaching and tutoring

  • Middle Eastern literatures (esp. Arabic and Turkish, modern period)
  • Languages of the 'Islamic World'
  • Conceptual History
  • Islamic and Middle Eastern History

Special fields

  • Modern Arabic and Turkish literature
  • Comparative Literature
  • Conceptual History

For workhop "West Reads East" (23-24 May 09, Berlin) go directly to the project's homepage .

Functions

Tags: Arabic, Turkish

Publications

(For a complete list of publications click here ).

Books

  • Brückenschläge. Eine integrierte 'turkoarabische' Romangeschichte (Mitte 19. bis Mitte 20. Jhdt.). Wiesbaden: Reichert Verlag, 2003 (Literaturen im Kontext; 14). [= Postdoctoral thesis, ‘Habilitation’ Bern 2002] .
  • Zeugen einer Endzeit: Fünf Schriftsteller zum Umbruch in der ägyptischen Gesellschaft nach 1970. Berlin: Kl. Schwarz Verlag, 1992 (Islamkundliche Untersuchungen; Bd. 160). [= Ph.D. thesis] .
  • Liebe und Mannesehre: Szenen einer muslimischen Kleinbürgerehe, beleuchtet anhand des Romans »Der Ölzweig« (Ġuṣn az-zaytūn) von M. ʿAbdalḥalīm ʿAbdallāh. Berlin: Kl. Schwarz Verlag, 1987 (Islamkundliche Untersuchungen; Bd. 122). [= M.A. thesis] .

Co-editorships

  • From New Values to New Aesthetics: Turning Points in Modern Arabic Literature, ed. S. Guth & G. Ramsay. Vol. I: From Modernism to the 1980s; vol. II: Postmodernism and thereafter. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2011 (mîzân; 20,1+2).
  • Verbal Festivity in Arabic and other Semitic Languages. Proceedings of the Workshop at the Universitätsclub Bonn on January 16, 2009, ed. L. Edzard & S. Guth. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2010 (Abhandlungen für die Kunde des Morgenlandes; 72).
  • The Creativity of Exile and the Diaspora. Middle Eastern Authors Re-thinking Literature, Society, Politics, … . Proceedings of the 7th EURAMAL Conference, 16-19 March, 2005, Bern/Switzerland, edited by Stephan Guth, Hilary Kilpatrick, and Sobhi Boustani, special issue of Asiatische Studien/Études Asiatiques 62.4 (2008), pp. 1097-1240.
  • Conscious Voices: concepts of writing in the Middle East, ed. S. Guth, P. Furrer, J. C. Bürgel. Beirut: Orient-Institut & Stuttgart: Steiner, 1999 (= Beiruter Texte und Studien; 72).
  • Gesellschaftlicher Umbruch und Historie im zeitgenössischen Drama der islamischen Welt, ed. Joh. C. Bürgel & S. Guth. Beirut: Orient-Institut & Stuttgart: Steiner, 1995 (= Beiruter Texte und Studien; 60).
  • Permanent co-editor of mîzân - Studies in the literatures of the Islamic World (Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden). Flyer , List of Titles

Articles

  • »Literary Currents in Egypt since the Beginning/Mid-1960s«. In: From New Values to New Aesthetics... (2011, see above, 'Co-editorships') vol. I: 85-112.
  • »Between ʿAwdat al-rūḥ and ʿImārat Yaʿqūbiyān. What has changed in community narratives?« In: From New Values to New Aesthetics... (2011, see above, 'Co-editorships'), vol. II: 95-107.
  • »MahmūdTaymūr (1894-1973)«. In: Essays in Arabic Literary Biography [EALB, vol. III]:1850–1950, ed. Roger Allen, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2010 (mîzân; 17,3): 350-366.
  • »Authenticity as Counter-Strategy: Fighting Sadat’s “Open Door” Politics.Gamal al-Ghitani and The Epistle of Insights into the Destinies«. In: Arabic Literature: Postmodern Perspectives, ed. A. Pflitsch, A. Neuwirth & B. Winckler, London & Beirut: Saqi Books, 2010: 146-157.
  • »Politeness, Höflichkeit, ʾadab – A Comparative Conceptual-Cultural Perspective«. In: Verbal Festivity in Arabic and other Semitic Languages, ed. L. Edzard & S. Guth, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2010 (AKM; 72): 9-30.
  • »Even in a maqāma! The Shift of Focus from “Trickster” to “Narrating Subject” in Fāris al-Shidyāq’s al-Sāq ‘alā ’l-sāq (1855)«. In: Many Ways of Speaking about the Self. Middle Eastern Ego Documents in Arabic, Persian, and Turkish (14th–20th century) [= proceedings of the conference on »Custom and Innovation in Middle Eastern “Ego-Documents” (15th–19th century)«, June 2007, University of Munich/Germany], ed. R. Elger & Y. Köse, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2010 (mîzân; 18): 145-160.
  • »Türkische Prosa seit 1980. Versuch einer Gesamtschau.« In:Der Bosporus zu Besuch am Rhein: Eine Reise durch die zeitgenössische türkische Kultur. Collected lectures of the “Bosporus am Rhein” series, ed. Bekim Agai, Berlin: EB-Verlag, 2010 (Bonner Islamstudien; 20): 27-48.
  • »Introduction: Some Thoughts about Makber (‘The Grave’) and Turkish Postmodernism«(on Cem Mumcu’s novella as translated by Buğra Giritlioğlu). Middle Eastern Literatures, 13.3 (Dec. 2010): 261-267.
  • »Post-Postmoderne oder ...? Ein komponentialanalytischer Versuch zu ʿImārat Yaʿqūbiyān und Banāt ar-Riyāḍ«. In: XXX. Deutscher Orientalistentag, Freiburg, 24.-28. September 2007 : Ausgewählte Vorträge, hrsg. im Auftrag der DMG von Rainer Brunner, Jens Peter Laut und Maurus Reinkowski. Online publication , December 2009.
  • »Individuality Lost, Fun Gained. Some Recurrent Motifs in Late Twentieth-Century Arabic and Turkish Novels«. Journal of Arabic and Islamic Studies 7 (2007) [publ. Feb. 2008]: 25-49. For pre-paper edition click here .
  • »Male Author, Female Protagonist: Aspects of Literary Representation in Reşat Nuri Güntekin's Çalıkuşu«. In: Sensibilities of the Islamic Mediterranean. Self-Expression in a Muslim Culture From Post-Classical Times to the Present Day, ed. Robin Ostle, London & New York: I.B. Tauris, 2008 (The Islamic Mediterranean series): ch. 11 = 195-208.
  • »Appropriating, or Secretly Undermining, the Secular Literary Heritage? Distant echoes of Mawsim al-hijra in a Muslim writer’s novel: Leila Aboulela, The Translator«. In: Intertextuality in Modern Arabic Literature since 1967, ed. L. Deheuvels, B. Michałak-Pikulska and P. Starkey, Durham: Durham Modern Language Series, 2006: 65-82.
  • »Gamāl al-Ġīṭānī und Das Buch der Schicksale (1989): Authentisierung contra Sadatsche Öffnungspolitik«. In: Arabische Literatur, postmodern, ed. A. Pflitsch, A. Neuwirth & B. Winckler, München: edition & kritik, 2004: 108-121.
  • »The Simultaneity of the Non-Simultaneous: The Global Dimensions of Middle Eastern Literature (esp. in the 19th Century)«. In: Crossings and Passages in Genre and Culture, ed. Chr. Szyska & F. Pannewick, Wiesbaden: Reichert Verlag, 2003 (Literaturen im Kontext; 15): 121-137.
  • »The Poetics of Urban Space: Structures of literarising Egyptian metropolis«. – In: Arabica 46 (1999): 454-481.
  • »Why Novels – Not Autobiographies: An essay in the analysis of a historical development«. In: Writing the Self: Autobiographical writing in modern Arabic literature, ed. R. Ostle et al. London: Saqi Books, 1998: 139-147, 308-312.
  • »Das ‘Rätsel’ ʿAşḳ-ı Memnūʿ. Ein Beitrag zur epochalen Lokalisierung der Servet-i Fünūn-Bewegung«. – In: Asiatische Studien 51 (1997): 557-576.
  • »Fa-ġrawraqat ʿuyūnuhum bi-d-dumūʿ... – Some notes on the flood of tears in early modern Arabic prose literature«. – In: Encounters of Words and Texts: Intercultural Studies in Honor of Stefan Wild..., ed. by L. Edzard and Chr. Szyska, Hildesheim [etc.] : Olms, 1997: 111-123.
  • »The Function of Sexual Passages in Some Egyptian Novels of the 1980s«. – In: Love, Marriage and Sexuality in Modern Arabic Literature, ed. R. Allen & H. Kilpatrick, London: Saqi Books, 1994: 123-130, 241-242.

Encyclopedia Entries

  • »Barmherzigkeit«, »Blasphemie«, »Engel«, »Freiheit«, »Gnade«, »Gott«, »Gottesnamen«, »Nächstenliebe«, »Opfer«, »Schicksal«, »Schriftbesitzer«, »Theologie«, »Toleranz«. In: Kleines Islam-Lexikon, ed. Ralf Elger, München: C.H. Beck, 2001 (and later editions).
  • »arabisch: Sprache«, »arabisch: Literatur«, »Maḥfūẓ, Nagīb«. Ibid.
  • Several entries on major works of modern Turkish and Uyghur literature in Kindlers Literatur Lexikon, 3rd, completely revised & enlarged edition, ed. Heinz Ludwig Arnold, Stuttgart: Metzler, 2009.
  • Guth, Stephan (2010). Türkische Prosa seit 1980 -- Versuch einer Gesamtschau, I: Bekim Agai (red.),  Der Bosporus zu Besuch am Rhein: Eine Reise durch die zeitgenössische türkische Kultur.  EB-Verlag.  ISBN 978-3-86893-012-2.  kapitel.  s 27 - 48

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