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Authored Books

Ouyang, Wen-Chin (2025) Ethical Living Through Stories: Encounters with Adab. London: I. B. Tauris in Association with The Institute of Ismaili Studies. (World of Islam) (Forthcoming)

Ouyang, Wen-Chin (2013) Politics of Nostalgia in the Arabic Novel: Nation-State, Modernity and Tradition. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.

Ouyang, Wen-Chin (2012) Poetics of Love in the Arabic Novel: Nation-State, Modernity and Tradition. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.

Ouyang, Wen-Chin (1997) Literary Criticism in Medieval Arabic-Islamic Culture: The Making of a Tradition. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.

Edited Book or Journal Volume

Hiddleston, Jane and Ouyang, Wen-Chin, eds. (2021) Multilingual Literature as World Literature. London: Bloomsbury. (Bloomsbury Literature as World Literature)

Kohl, Katrin, Dudrah, Rajinder, Gosler, Andrew, Graham, Suzanne, Maiden, Martin, Ouyang, Wen-Chin and Reynolds, Matthew, eds. (2020) Creative Multilingualism : A Manifesto. Cambridge: OpenBookPublishers.

Ouyang, Wen-Chin, ed. (2014) The Arabian Nights: An Anthology. London: Random House. (Everyman's Library)

Ouyang, Wen-Chin, ed. (2012) Utopias, Dystopias and Heterotopias: The Spatiality of Human Experience and Literary Expression. London: Taylor and Francis. (Special issue of the Middle Eastern Literatures 15(3))

Omri, Mohamed-Saleh and Ouyang, Wen-Chin, eds. (2007) The Novelization of Islamic Literatures. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. (Comparative Critical Studies, 4 (3))

Hart, Stephen M. and Ouyang, Wen-Chin, eds. (2005) A Companion to Magical Realism. Woodbridge: Tamesis.

Ouyang, Wen-Chin and van Gelder, Geert Jan, eds. (2005) New perspectives on Arabian nights: ideological variations and narrative horizons. London: Routledge.

Ouyang, Wen-Chin, ed. (2004) Ideological Variations and Narrative Horizons: New Perspectives on the Arabian Nights. Basingstoke: Taylor and Francis. (Middle Eastern literatures 7(2). Special issue)

Book Chapters

Ouyang, Wen-Chin (2023) 'The Thousand and One Nights and Rethinking Arabic Literature.' In: Horta, Paulo, (ed.), Approaches to Teaching The Thousand and One Nights. New York: Modern Language Association of America, pp. 40-47. (Approaches to teaching world literature, no. 173)

Ouyang, Wen-Chin (2022) 'Harun al-Rashid in Premodern Arabic Literary Imaginary: Ideology of Monogamy, Harem Politics, and Court Intrigues.' In: van Berkel, Maaike and Osti, Letizia, (eds.), The Historian of Islam at Work: Essays in Honor of Hugh N. Kennedy. Leiden: Brill, pp. 340-355. (Islamic History and Civilization, vol. 198)

Ouyang, Wen-Chin (2022) 'Worlding of Realism: The Case of Naguib Mahfouz.' In: Higonnet, Margaret, Jørgensen, Steen Bille and Larsen, Sven Erik, (eds.), Landscapes of Realism: Rethiking Literary Realisms in Comparative Perspectives. II. Pathways through Realism. Amsterdam, the Netherlands: John Benjamins, pp. 703-720. (ICLA CHLEL Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages)

Ouyang, Wen-Chin (2021) 'The Silk Roads of World Literature.' In: Ganguly, Debjani, (ed.), The Cambridge History of World Literature. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 63-79. (Cambridge Studies in World Literature)

Anjaria, Keya (2021) 'Monolingualising the Multilingual Ottoman Novel: Ahmet Midhat Efendi’s Felatun Bey ile Rakım Efendi.' In: Hiddleston, Jane and Ouyang, Wen-Chin, (eds.), Multilingual Literature as World Literature. London: Bloomsbury, pp. 111-126.

Ouyang, Wen-Chin (2021) 'Configurations of Multilingualism and World Literature.' In: Hiddleston, Jane and Ouyang, Wen-Chin, (eds.), Multilingual Literature as World Literature. London: Bloomsbury, pp. 282-303. (Bloomsbury Literature as World Literature)

Hiddleston, Jane and Ouyang, Wen-Chin (2021) 'Introduction: Multilingual Literature as World Literature.' In: Hiddleston, Jane and Ouyang, Wen-Chin, (eds.), Multilingual Literature as World Literature. London: Bloomsbury, pp. 1-10. (Bloomsbury Literature as World Literature)

Kohl, Katrin and Ouyang, Wen-Chin (2020) 'Introducing Creative Multilingualism.' In: Kohl, Katrin, Dudrah, Rajinder, Gosler, Andrew, Graham, Suzanne, Maiden, Martin, Ouyang, Wen-Chin and Reynolds, Matthew, (eds.), Creative Multilingualism: A Manifesto. Cambridge: OpenBookPublishers, pp. 1-24.

Ouyang, Wen-Chin (2020) 'Multilingualism and Creativity in World Literature.' In: Kohl, Katrin, Dudrah, Rajinder, Gosler, Andrew, Graham, Suzanne, Maiden, Martin, Ouyang, Wen-Chin and Reynolds, Matthew, (eds.), Creative Multilingualism: A Manifesto. Cambridge: OpenBookPublishers, pp. 109-130.

Ouyang, Wen-Chin (2020) 'The Arabian Nights in Chinese and English Translations: Differing Patterns of Cultural Encounter and World Literature.' In: Shi, Flair Donglai and Tan, Gareth Guanming, (eds.), World Literature in Motion: Institution, Recognition, Location. Stuttgart: ibidem-Verlag, pp. 433-472. (Studies in World Literature)

Ouyang, Wen-Chin (2020) 'War and the Worlding of Story.' In: Chism, Christine, (ed.), A companion to world literature, volume 2. 601 CE to 1450 CE. Hoboken, NJ, USA: Wiley, pp. 921-927.

Ouyang, Wen-Chin (2018) 'Orientalism and World Literature: A Re-reading of Cosmopolitanism in Taha Husayn's Literary World.' In: Ball, Anna and Mattar, Karim, (eds.), The Edinburgh Companion to the Postcolonial Middle East. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, pp. 97-117. (Edinbrugh Companions to Literature and the Humanities)

Ouyang, Wen-Chin (2018) 'Trickster Jester: on humour, word play and laughter in the Arabian Nights.' In: Bendix, Regina and Noyes, Dorothy, (eds.), Festschrift zum 65. Geburtstag von Ulrich Marzolph Vol. 1. Dortmund: Verlag für Orientkunde, pp. 32-58. (Beiträge zur Kulturgeschichte des islamischen Orients)

Ouyang, Wen-Chin (2017) 'Solomon's Ring.' In: Al-Shaar, Nuha, (ed.), The Qur'an and Adab: the Shaping of Literary Traditions in Classical Islam. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 433-471. (Qur'anic Studies Series; 16)

Ouyang, Wen-Chin (2015) 'Return or Departure? Homecoming in al-Tahtawi's Travelogue.' In: Bauden, Frederic, (ed.), Tropics of Travel 4: Homes. Proceedings of the International Conference Organized at the Université de Liège (13-15 January 2011). Louvain; Paris; Walpole (MA): Peeters, pp. 89-108.

Ouyang, Wen-Chin (2015) 'Literature and Thought: Re-reading al-Tawhidi's Transcription of the Debate between Logic and Grammar.' In: Pomerantz, Maurice A. and Shahin, Aram A., (eds.), The Heritage of Arabo-Islamic Learning: Studies in Honor of Wadad Kadi. Leiden: E. J. Brill, pp. 444-460. (Islamic History an Civilization)

Ouyang, Wen-Chin (2014) 'Mujun, Junun, Funun.' In: Talib, Adam, (ed.), The Rude, the Bad, and the Ugly: Essays in Honour of Professor Geert Jan van Gelder. Oxford: Oxbow Books, Gibb Memorial Trust, pp. 7-12.

Ouyang, Wen-Chin (2013) 'Silenced Cultural Encounters in Poetry of War.' In: Kennedy, Hugh, (ed.), Warfare and Poetry in the Middle East. London; New York: I. B. Tauris, pp. 167-192.

Ouyang, Wen-Chin (2011) 'Lost in Nostalgia: Modernity's Repressed Other.' In: Parker, Jan and Mathews, Timothy, (eds.), Translation, Trauma, Tradition: The Classic and the Modern. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 191-210. (Classical Presences)

Ouyang, Wen-Chin (2010) 'Dramas of Encounter: al-Shidyaq on Arab, English and French Women.' In: Chraibi, Aboubakr, (ed.), Tropes du voyage: les rencontres. Paris: l'Harmattan.

Ouyang, Wen-Chin (2009) 'The Arabian Nights in Chinese and English Translations: Differing Patterns of Cultural Encounter.' In: Chraibi, Aboubakr and Ramirez, Carmen, (eds.), Les Mille et une nuits et le recit oriental: En Espagne et en Occident. Paris: L’Harmattan, pp. 371-400.

Ouyang, Wen-Chin (2008) 'Mapping Arab Womanhood: Identity Politics and Narratives of Arab Women.' In: Ostle, Robin, (ed.), Sensibilities of the Islamic Mediterranean: Self Expression in a Muslim Culture from Post-Classical Times to the Present Day. London: I. B. Tauris, pp. 174-193.

Ouyang, Wen-Chin (2008) 'Text, Space and the Individual in the Poetry of Badr Shakir al-Sayyab.' In: Ostle, Robin, (ed.), Sensibilities of the Islamic Mediterranean: Self Expression in a Muslim Culture from Post-Classical Times to the Present Day. London: I. B. Tauris.

Ouyang, Wen-Chin (2008) 'Utopian Fantasy or Dystopian Nightmare: Trajectories of Desire in Classical Arabic and Chinese Fiction.' In: Chraibi, Aboubakr, Bauden, Frederic and Ghersetti, Antonella, (eds.), Le repertoire narrative arabe medieval: transmission et ouverture. Geneve: Droz, pp. 323-351.

Ouyang, Wen-Chin (2007) 'Literature as Performance: The Theatre of al-Hatimi's Al-rasila al-mudiha.' In: Chraibi, Aboubakr, (ed.), Classer les recits: Theories and pratiques. Paris: L'Harmattan, pp. 115-145.

Ouyang, Wen-Chin (2006) 'English Translation of Arabic Literature.' In: France, Peter and Haynes, Kenneth, (eds.), Oxford History of Literary Translation in English, Vol. 4 (1790-1900). Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 323-331.

Ouyang, Wen-Chin (2006) 'Intertextuality Gone Awry: The Mysterious (Dis)Appearance of Tradition in the Arabic Novel.' In: Deheuvels, Luc-Willy, Michalak-Pikulska, Barbara and Starkey, Paul, (eds.), Intertextuality in Modern Arabic Literature since 1967. Durham: Durham University Press, pp. 45-64. (Durham Modern Languages Series Arabic Series AR2)

Ouyang, Wen-Chin (2005) 'Beyond Magical Realism: Ideology of Fantasy.' In: Hart, Stephen M. and Ouyang, Wen-Chin, (eds.), A Companion to Magical Realism. Woodbridge: Tamesis, pp. 13-20.

Sperl, Stefan (2005) 'Empire and Magic in a Tuareg Novel: Ibrahim al-Kawni’s al-Khusuf (The Lunar Eclipse).' In: Ouyang, Wen-Chin and Hart, Stephen M., (eds.), A Companion to Magical Realism. Woodbridge: Tamesis, pp. 237-246.

Ouyang, Wen-Chin (2005) 'From The Thousand and One Nights to Magical Realism: Postnational Predicament in The Journey of Little Ghandi by Elias Khoury.' In: Hart, Stephen M. and Ouyang, Wen-Chin, (eds.), A Companion to Magical Realism. Woodbridge: Tamesis, pp. 267-280.

Ouyang, Wen-Chin (2005) 'Genres, Ideologies, Genre Ideologies and Narrative Transformation.' In: Ouyang, Wen-Chin and van Gelder, Geert Jan, (eds.), New Perspectives on the Arabian Nights: Ideological Variations and Narrative Horizons. Abingdon: Routledge, pp. 9-15.

Ouyang, Wen-Chin (2005) ''Introduction' to Part III: The Politics of Magic.' In: Hart, Stephen M. and Ouyang, Wen-Chin, (eds.), A Companion to Magical Realism. Woodbridge: Tamesis, pp. 153-154.

Ouyang, Wen-Chin (2005) ''Introduction' to Part IV: Empire, Nation, Magic.' In: Hart, Stephen M. and Ouyang, Wen-Chin, (eds.), A Companion to Magical Realism. Woodbridge: Tamesis, pp. 225-227.

Ouyang, Wen-Chin (2005) 'Theorizing Narrative, Narritivizing Theory: A Novel Interpretation of One Thousand and One Nights.' In: Joly, Jean-Luc and Kilito, Abdelfattah, (eds.), Les Mille et Une Nuits: Du texte au mythe. Morocco: Universite Mohammed V de Rabat, pp. 175-197.

Ouyang, Wen-Chin (2005) 'Whose Story Is It?: Sindbad the Sailor in Literature and Film.' In: Ouyang, Wen-Chin and van Gelder, Geert Jan, (eds.), New Perspectives on the Arabian Nights: Ideological Variations and Narrative Horizons. Abingdon: Routledge, pp. 1-15.

Ouyang, Wen-Chin (2004) 'Idéologie du genre et subjectivité auctoriale dans les Mille et une nuit de Pasolini.' In: Chraibi, Aboubakr, (ed.), Les Mille et Une Nuits en partage. Paris: Sindbad Actes Sud, pp. 81-94.

Ouyang, Wen-Chin (2002) 'From Beirut to Beirut: Exile, Wandering and Homecoming in the Narratives of Etel Adnan.' In: Majaj, Lisa and Amireh, Amal, (eds.), Etel Adnan: Critical Essays on the Arab-American Writer and Artist. London: McFarland and Co., pp. 67-88.

Ouyang, Wen-Chin (1996) 'The Maqamat of al-Hamadhani and al-Hariri.' In: McGreal, Ian P., (ed.), Great Literature of the Eastern World. New York: HarperCollins Publishers, pp. 488-495.

Ouyang, Wen-Chin (1996) 'The Thousand and One Nights.' In: McGreal, Ian P., (ed.), Great Literature of the Eastern World. New York: HarperCollins Publishers, pp. 470-478.

Ouyang, Wen-Chin (1993) 'Princess of Resolution: The Emergence of al-Amira Dhat al-Himma, a Medieval Arab Warrior Woman.' In: Ross, Lena, (ed.), To Speak or Be Silent. Wilmette: Chiron Publications, pp. 197-209.

Journal Article

Ouyang, Wen-Chin (2023) 'Arabic Posthuman: Bee, Beehive and Beekeeper in a Reconceptualizing of the Human.' Middle Eastern Literatures, 26 (1). pp. 138-143.

Ouyang, Wen-Chin (2018) 'Orientalism and World Literature: a re-reading of Taha Husayn's Cosmopolitanism.' Journal of Arabic Literature, 49. pp. 125-152.

Ouyang, Wen-Chin (2018) 'A Hairy State of Mind: Creativity in the Arabic Literary Imaginary.' Al-Masaq: Journal of the Medieval Mediterranean, 30 (1). pp. 71-89.

Ouyang, Wen-Chin (2017) 'Foreword.' Middle Eastern Literatures, 20 (1). p. 1.

Ouyang, Wen-Chin (2015) 'صداقة الرجال والأخوّة في الثقافتين العربية والصينية / Male Friendship and Brotherhood in Arabic and Chinese Cultures.' Alif: Journal of Comparative Poetics, 36. pp. 145-172.

Ouyang, Wen-Chin (2014) 'The Qur'an and Identity in Contemporary Chinese Fiction.' Journal of Qur'anic Studies, 16 (3). pp. 63-84.

Ouyang, Wen-Chin (2014) 'التناص والتحول: الذاكرة الجماعية في الرواية التاريخية الصينية والعربية / Intertextuality and Transformation: Collective Memory in Chinese and Arabic Historical Novels.' Alif: Journal of Comparative Poetics (34). pp. 109-135.

Ouyang, Wen-Chin (2012) 'Preface: Utopias, Dystopias and Heterotopias: The Spatiality of Human Experience and Literary Expression.' Middle Eastern Literatures, 15 (3). pp. 227-231.

Ouyang, Wen-Chin (2009) 'An Ethical Underworld?: Legendary Con Artists in Arabic Vernacular Fiction.' Oriente Moderno, 89 (2). pp. 407-424.

Ouyang, Wen-Chin (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). pp. 331-358.

Ouyang, Wen-Chin (2007) 'Interview with Haifa Zangana.' Comparative Critical Studies, 4 (3). pp. 447-453.

Ouyang, Wen-Chin (2004) 'Genre, Ideologies, Genre Ideologies and Narrative Transformation.' Middle Eastern Literatures, 7 (2). pp. 125-132.

Ouyang, Wen-Chin (2004) 'Whose Story Is It? Sindbad the Sailor in Literature and Film.' Middle Eastern Literatures, 7 (2). pp. 133-147.

Ouyang, Wen-Chin (2003) 'Metamorphoses of Scheherazade in Literature and Film.' Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 66 (3). pp. 402-418.

Ouyang, Wen-Chin (2003) 'The Dialectic of Past and Present in Rihlat Ibn Fattuma by Najib Mahfuz.' Edebiyat: Journal of Middle Eastern Literatures, 14 (1-2). pp. 81-107.

Ouyang, Wen-Chin (2002) 'The Epical Turn of Romance: Love in the Narrative of ‘Umar al-Nu‘man.' Oriente Moderno, 19 (1). pp. 485-504.

Ouyang, Wen-Chin (2000) 'Romancing the Epic: "Umar al-Nu" man as narrative of empowerment.' Arabic and Middle Eastern Literatures, 3 (1). pp. 5-18.

Ouyang, Wen-Chin (1999) 'The Imagined Modern Nation in Al-farafir by Yusuf Idris.' Modern Language Quarterly, 60 (3). pp. 379-408.

Ouyang, Wen-Chin (1998) 'A novel in the form of an ode: the power of Ghassan Kanafani's narrative in Ma tabaqqa lakum.' Arabic and Middle Eastern Literatures, 1 (2). pp. 223-231.

Ouyang, Wen-Chin (1997) 'Feminist Discourse between Art and Ideology: Four Novels by Nawal El Saadawi.' Al-‘Arabiyya, 30. pp. 96-113.

Book Reviews

Ouyang, Wen-Chin (2022) '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). pp. 66-68.

Ouyang, Wen-Chin (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). pp. 525-527.

Ouyang, Wen-Chin (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). pp. 116-119.

Ouyang, Wen-Chin (2020) 'Elizabeth Holt, Fictitious Capital: Silk, Cotton and the Rise of the Arabic Novel.' Literature and History, 29 (1). pp. 132-134.

Ouyang, Wen-Chin (2019) 'Review of: Metapoesis in the Arabic tradition: from modernists to Muḥdathū. by Huda Fakhreddine, Leiden/Boston, Brill, 2015.' Middle Eastern Literatures, 22 (1). pp. 59-61.

Ouyang, Wen-Chin (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). pp. 708-710.

Ouyang, Wen-Chin (2003) 'Review of Algerian White, 'Assia Djebar' and Hanan al-Shaykh, 'Only in London'.' Wasafiri, 40 . p. 60.

Ouyang, Wen-Chin (2002) 'Review of Dwight F. Reynolds, 'Interpreting the Self: Autobiography in the Arabic Literary Tradition'.' Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 65 (3). pp. 574-576.

Ouyang, Wen-Chin (1996) 'Review of Nawal Al-Sa dawi, 'Woman at Point Zero' and 'The Circling Song'.' International Journal of Middle East Studies, 28 (03). pp. 457-460.

Ouyang, Wen-Chin (1995) 'Review of Joseph Zeidan, 'Arab Women Novelists: The Formative Years and Beyond'.' Al-‘Arabiyya, 28 . pp. 143-146.

Translations

Ouyang, Wen-Chin, trans. (2021) Packaged Lives: A Novella and Ten Short Stories by Haifa Zangana. Middle East Literature in Translation . Syracuse, USA: Syracuse University Press.

Ouyang, Wen-Chin, trans. (2018) The Duck that Broke the Mule's Back. Middle Eastern Literatures, 23 (2/3). London: Taylor and Francis. pp. 244-250.

Ouyang, Wen-Chin, trans. (2018) ‘Fangs and Claws’, an excerpt of Dog War II by Ibrahim Nasrallah, winner of 2018 International Prize for Arabic Fiction. ArabLit . ArabLit.

Ouyang, Wen-Chin, trans. (2018) A chapter from Heir of the Tombstones by Walid Shurafa. IPAF Booklet, 2018 . IPAF: IPAF.

Farag, Joseph R. (writer of introduction), Ouyang, Wen-Chin, Beard, Michael and Parr, Nora, trans. (2015) Samīra Azzām's ‘Man and His Alarm Clock’. Middle Eastern Literatures, 18 (1). London: Taylor and Francis. pp. 86-92.

Ouyang, Wen-Chin, trans. (2015) Insult. Middle Eastern Literatures, 18 (3). London: Taylor and Francis. pp. 231-235.

Ouyang, Wen-Chin, trans. (2015) ‘Violet Flower’ by Sulayman Fayyad. Middle Eastern Literatures, 18 (3). London: Taylor and Francis. pp. 240-246.

Ouyang, Wen-Chin, trans. (2015) ‘Yamnah’ by ‘Abd al-Rahman al-Abnudi. Middle Eastern Literatures, 18 (3). London: Taylor and Francis. pp. 219-223.

Ouyang, Wen-Chin, trans. (2008) ‘Incident on Trafalgar Square’ by Haifa Zangana. Al-‘Arabiyya, 40/41 . Georgetown: Georgetown University Press. pp. 135-144.

Ouyang, Wen-Chin, trans. (2008) ‘The Book of Alif’ (Chapter one of Sabi‘ ayyam al-khalq) by ‘Abd al-Khaliq al-Rikabi. Banipal: Magazine of Modern Arab Literature, 32 . London: Banipal Trust. pp. 106-125.

Ouyang, Wen-Chin, trans. (2003) ‘Mad Dog Disease’ by ‘Abd al-Khaliq al-Rikabi. Banipal: Magazine of Modern Arab Literature, 18 . London: Banipal Trust. pp. 35-37.

Ouyang, Wen-Chin, trans. (2003) ‘The Train’ by Mahmoud al-Rimawy. Banipal: Magazine of Modern Arab Literature, 15/16 . London: Banipal Trust. pp. 88-91.

Ouyang, Wen-Chin, trans. (1999) ‘Black and White’ by Idriss el-Khoury. Banipal: Magazine of Modern Arab Literature, 5 . London: Banipal Trust. pp. 35-37.

Ouyang, Wen-Chin, trans. (1998) ‘A Seat’ by Hadia Said. Banipal: Magazine of Modern Arab Literature, 3 . London: Banipal Trust. pp. 36-37.

Other

Ouyang, Wen-Chin (2011) 'Interextuality, Ideology and Culture: Trajectories of Narratological Inquiries in Ancient Near and Middle Eastern Literatures.' In: Narratives of Egypt and the Ancient Near East: Literary and Linguistic Approaches. Leuven: Peeters. pp. 539-549.