Arabic Poetry: Trajectories of Modernity and Tradition

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ARABIC POETRY Since the late 1940s, Arabic poetry has spoken for an Arab conscience, as much as it has debated positions and ide ...

1. SHEHERAZADE THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS Eva Sallis THE PALESTINIAN NOVEL Ibrahim Taha OF DISHES AND DISCOURSE Geert Jan van Ge ...

7. IBN ABI TAHIR TAYFUR AND ARABIC WRITERLY CULTURE A ninth-century bookman in Baghdad Shawkat M. Toorawa RELIGIOUS PERSPECTIVE ...

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ARABIC POETRY Trajectories of modernity and tradition Muhsin J. al-Musawi ...

First published 2006 by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN Simultaneously published in the USA and Ca ...

TO THE DEVOTEE AND SCHOLAR OF CLASSICAL ARABIC POETRY SUZANNE P. STETKEVYCH ...

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CONTENTS Preface xiii Acknowledgments xix ...

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CONTENTS 1 Poetic trajectories: critical introduction A note on translation and transliteration xxi Arabic poetry in context Mo ...

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xiii PREFACE This book concentrates on the moment of anxiety and tension in Arabic poetry that occurs whenever poetic identity i ...

PREFACE xiv materializes, however, into textual homelands and exilic evocations that constitute a large portion of modern poetry ...

PREFACE xv the conversational poem, the epistolary form, the song, and the embedded text, the argument in this chapter draws att ...

PREFACE xvi scenes of modernity. While I have been putting a lot of emphasis on Adnnls as a theorist for the poetic scene, on th ...

PREFACE xvii thresholds, dedications, exilic tropes, and their specific engagements with articles of faith, language, ancient po ...

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xix ACKNOWLEDGMENTS The idea behind this book began in the early 1990s, when, in 1993, I was invited to Jordan to offer a lectur ...