Arabic Poetry: Trajectories of Modernity and Tradition

Recollections One way of dealing with the modernity–tradition nexus is to set recollections of ancient poetry and poets against ...

broad affiliations that subsumed Neruda, Lorca, and Alberti, along with Arab classicists. Ideological registers are carefully ke ...

preceding the rhyme consonant. The deviation from the invariable rhyme consonant means greater variety and freedom, but its appl ...

2 No matter how indebted both were to other Arabic texts due to their prodigious memory, their borrowing is an act of creation, ...

sword, the paper and the pen.”^51 Descendants are attracted to such engage- ments with articles of traditional thought, and valo ...

and virtues.”^58 In other words, both were bent on de-centering tradition, interrogating society, and ways of behavior and thoug ...

thought and poetics is more in concert with each other than what early revivalists might have thought. Translation as a modernis ...

of scholasticism in which dictionary learning tended to be of superior urgency to private visions.”^65 In contrast, modern poeti ...

accused the new poets “of undermining tradition,”^71 poets of the modernist temper followed Eliot in re-thinking tradition, whic ...

confrontational or smooth literary discourses, there is, in the discursive effort, urgency prompted by a sense of responsibility ...

JabrmI. Jabrm, especially as “... the people who read him most and translated him and commented on his work were themselves the ...

It also shares a Tammnzlregister with other poets like al-Sayymb in his “Death and the River.” If his 1957 poem “Rlshat al-ghurm ...

shaykhs or jurists). In this vein, they focus also on distorted lifestyles, mixed agendas, and superficial amalgams of ancient a ...

recollected ways of speech and behavior operate so actively only because of the need for self-deceit and wishful thinking as a d ...

as if still living in al-Mafraq or Salt, Karak or Ramtha as if we hadn’t crossed northern borders to big cities and coasts where ...

When the shore appears, I bend away with my mast Towards the endlessness of the waters Counting the waves: wave by wave The empo ...

The sea is coming to wash the cities To sweep the masks that are numbered According to the rites of the marketplace (The bowing, ...

recording. Poetic quality varied among practitioners too, and whereas there was richness in some texts, a hurried recovery of hi ...

such accusations. Nevertheless, it survived attacks and bequeathed its legacy to another journal, Mawmqif(Stations), which was s ...

tenets and the modern appropriation of classical prosody, as manifested in her Mdmbarticles which made up her later book on crit ...