Secondary scholarship review

    Secondary scholarship review This involves you carefully reading an article on our reading and then summarizing the argument that the scholar is making. You can be critical of the author’s assumptions if you like, but you don’t have to be. The important thing is that you can synthesize and summarize the article’s important points. In writing this sort of paper, it helps to stand back as you read and after you finish and ask yourself: What was the author trying to prove? Did they do so successfully? What points did they bring up to support what they were trying to prove? Andras Hamori, “A Comic Romance from the Thousand and One Nights: The Tale of Two Viziers.” Arabica, 30:1 (February 1983), pp. 38-56. Available on the Moodle site under week October 23-29. Hamori gives a close literary reading of “The Two Viziers,” which we also discussed in detail in class. He is more interested in analyzing the artistic skill of the story and is not so interested in political, social, or anthropological issues. This article might be of greater interest for students who love literature.