Arabic Poetry: Trajectories of Modernity and Tradition

among the Arabs, as a “history-conscious” one. “... there was the new anguish of a vast nation in travail” (Ibid). He argued in ...

His contribution to the Rome Conference had the following title: “Al-Shicr al-cArablwa-mushkilmt al-tajdld” (Arabic Poetry and t ...

traditions, and the offerings of the poetry of Edith Sitwell and T. S. Eliot. Summing up these sources for the movement in view ...

al-cArabl(Anthology of Arabic poetry),^113 with its thematic divisions and literary preferences. In these practices, Adnnls foll ...

Not all poets share the specific emphasis on the visionary and the prophetic. While different from other modernists like Jabrm, ...

a “regularizing collectivity...itself governed by the archive.”^120 Adnnls’ search for power relations as they operate through l ...

Adnnls’ early association between the critical reliance on ancient authority and the seemingly resultant dormancy cannot hold fo ...

with an exilic movement, a restless journey among lands and places, which also occurs as such in other texts by his contemporari ...

of difference in vision and use of myth than in their opposite use of Astarte/Ishtar. Poetic career: Xalm.cAbd al-Xabnr However, ...

reality and history, in a nexus of modernity and tradition. In cAbd al-Xabnr’s readings as well as in the readings of other poet ...

3 POETIC STRATEGIES Thresholds for conformity and dissent Who will buy the history of my forefathers for a day of freedom? (Ma.m ...

Mahdlal-Jawmhirl(1900?–1997), whom Ymhm>usayn (d. 1973) rightly described as the epitome of a literary tradition, meaning the ...

as the qaxldahpractice has not been outworn or rendered obsolete by time. Its rhyme scheme should not be cited as necessarily ne ...

poetic poignancy and richness, tinged with leftist sentiments, faith in the masses, engagement with nationalist issues, and wide ...

is the secret behind his greatness.”^18 The implications here are many, but they also explain the Egyptian poet’s change from th ...

to articulate his skeptical views within a peculiar vein of ascetics. Xalm.cAbd al-Xabnr concludes: When reaching forty, al-Maca ...

I am no Abnal-Yayyib [al-Mutanabbl] I am not as qualified as this giant knight to capture the right meaning And I am not the wis ...

for “the would-be comer.”^30 Even if he or she shows up, I will not meet this would-be comer, for this is the poet’s fate, and h ...

poetic enunciations or parts, al-Baymtldevelops a number of paradigmatic stations, which borrow al-Macarrl’s well-known position ...

reestablishes them in an independent matrix, free from traditional usage. The “motifs” thereby “become ambivalent and acquire th ...