Arabic Poetry: Trajectories of Modernity and Tradition

WORKS CITED Sperl, Stefan, Mannerism in Arabic Poetry(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989). Steiner, George, Tolstoy or ...

Index cAbbms Ibn al-A.naf 10 cAbbms, I.smn56 ‘Abd al-Amlr, Shawql: use of Sumerian lore 109–11 cAbd al-Xabnr, Xalm.27, 66–67, 86 ...

Arabic poetry 9–12, 237–38, 267; continuities and discontinuities 4–6; history and criticism 1–3, 267; poetics of legitimacy in ...

“Canticle of the Rain” (Al-Sayymb) 142, 144, 148, 219, 227, 255, 256–59 childhood: experiences of 148–49 Christ 31, 142, 150, 22 ...

exile/exilic poetry (Continued) power of the past 163–65; prophetic tones 191; sources 163; Sufi text regained 208–10; textual h ...

immigrant intelligentsia 171–72 Imru’ al-Qays 2, 20, 64, 246, 259; comparison with al-Sayymb 255–56; identification of Bennls wi ...

Luznmiyymt (al-Macarrl) 73, 77, 78 lyricism 112–14; elegiac 142–43, 144 al-Macarrl, Abnal-‘Alm2, 10, 21, 39, 41, 42, 59; exile 8 ...

mythology: recovery of native mythology 59; Sumerian 27, 107–11 Mzmll, Mu.ammad 55 Nabokov, Vladimir: expatriatism 167–68 Nahr b ...

rejectionist poetics 49–50 representative poetics 68 repression 146–49; in al-Baymti’s poetry 146–49 reversal poetics 239, 249–5 ...

cautions against 63; knowledge of 45–46; modernists view 237; and polyphonic poem 224–26 tradition-modernity nexus 30–31; dialec ...

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