Arabic Poetry: Trajectories of Modernity and Tradition

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xx mention my two friends Professors Jaroslav Stetkevych and Suzanne P. Stetkevych whose keen interest in my wor ...

xxi A NOTE ON TRANSLATION AND TRANSLITERATION LC transliteration system, usually collated with that of IJMESand JAl, is applied ...

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1 POETIC TRAJECTORIES Critical introduction Land, like language, is inherited. (Ma.mnd Darwlsh, “The Tragedy of Narcissus The Co ...

enforces the unity of the poem to some extent, while its resonance plays at times on the verbal expectations of the learned audi ...

alone in the desert which I cherish inside my study room. From this canticle, I derive my filiations as an Arab, and to it I lis ...

from a distance, camouflaging its movement behind tree branches, the poet still thinks in terms of vocational commitment and rol ...

of genres and practices. Victor Úklovskij argues on the other hand for change as an inevitable process. Each art form travels do ...

(Erasure writing). While establishing his identity and lineage (Kitmbat al-Ma.w, 12) and asserting a list of readings that conne ...

and powerful past. The model was not concerned with historical dynamism, for it built on an essence that was also central to the ...

been keen on creating an independent Iraqi state since 1919 when he established >aras al-Istiqlml (Guardians of independence) ...

O my soul, be glad! Danger is the thing to stir a frozen soul, / A people’s screwed-up virtue to unroll!’ ”^31 Such a trajectory ...

note, M. M. Badawi explains these movements in their relation to the classical past with its many schools and attitudes. He argu ...

whereby the poem as an intellectualized product has its artificial stimuli.^38 The renowned prose writer of Basrah and Baghdad, ...

for post-Second World War consciousness and its manifestations in poetry, narrative, drama, and the plastic arts. The emerging r ...

appearances and rites that distinguish them from lower classes. They purport to appear in the most lavish and sophisticated appe ...

Mahjar poets in North and Latin America, those who had access to other cultures, and brought into poetry a new sense of poetic u ...

First World War has been noticed by many readers and critics, but the complexity of Tammnz as a symbol relates not only to cycle ...

on by the desires and interests of Others. To overcome banality, loss, absence, disintegration, and other negative categories of ...

of the National Movement, the Arabs had formed groups and secret societies in various provinces of the Ottoman Arab States, in a ...