Arabic Poetry: Trajectories of Modernity and Tradition

She realized the significance of this grounding, not only to benefit from Arabic prosody, rhetoric, and the art of poetry, but a ...

his call for a strong grounding in classical style. At a later stage she withdrew from the maslak, or track, of modeling herself ...

Her association with the latter was also another rite of passage, as the movementfrom tradition to modernity, from classical pro ...

Both come from the Muslim West. Both have a daring experience, that Ibn ‘Arablpours out his life in the qaxidah, “daringly, and ...

builds on the dethroned emir’s poetry while “dissolving the bond between the poetic and the national (the religious) in respect ...

including the advocates of populist thought in Iraq, the so-called Ahmll Group, which was formed in 1931.^72 The Arab nationalis ...

Arab-nationalist spirit.”^77 In the same memoir, the poet searched for a meaning to this predicament, finding its source in the ...

the word in a cultural context; and (4) a poetic of absence to speak of exile and the human condition. Identity grows first as a ...

the poem asks the invader: “But don’t you ever / memorize a few lines of poetry, perhaps, / to restrain yourself from massacre?” ...

keep memory fresh, / and classical so I can interpret / shadows to their shadows.”^90 These problematizations require some re-th ...

condition at large. It should not be surprising therefore that the same poets of the second awakening, that is, the Nah,ah after ...

focus more on a poetics of engagement, not only in its political overtones, but also mainly as an effort to envision a role in a ...

2 THE TRADITION–MODERNITY NEXUS IN ARABIC POETICS The essence of the matter, Summed up in a phrase: We have donned the husk of c ...

Mu.ammad MuxyafmBadawl(May 1956, June 1956), and Laylfah al-Zayymt (1964).^4 From Lebanon, there was Muna.Khnrl(January 1955). E ...

The mask works effectively in such a language. The mask for him is one way of multiple voicing, as it allows the poet to develop ...

If poetry does not carry a lantern from house to house If the poor do not know what it ‘means’ We had better discard it!^13 Othe ...

The surviving past The effort to found a new tradition is not an easy task, however, for the effort takes place within the poet’ ...

innovation, her lectures on the place and position of women, and her amateurish critique of Arabic language.^18 Paradoxically, t ...

space to accommodate populism with a tinge of Anynn Sa‘mdah’s (d. 1949) ideology of regeneration.^24 We will open our hearts to ...

strictures. “Opening doors onto the unsayable, it insists on the absence of any correspondence between things and words, which e ...