Arabic Poetry: Trajectories of Modernity and Tradition

a refrain “O, night. O eye,” (ymlayl, ym‘ayn) in keeping with the popular tradition of nocturnal yearning and loneliness, a trad ...

servitude. The murdered lover, the bard, summons all martyrs and poets, in a confluence of voices that defy death and erosion. t ...

subject is yearning and romantic agony. In Night35, the three women of Baghdad pass the night with singing in the vein of the Km ...

As the Kmn Kmnbuilds its effect through dramatization, we expect an increase in agony, leading to expressions of probable martyr ...

celebrations and processions or assemblies, and a great deal of poetic appropriation takes place in keeping with needs and deman ...

Repetition, and address to an implied or real listener, along with images of struggle and martyrdom, emplace such a poem nicely ...

English woman live a moment that parodies platitudes and stereotypes. By extension, the moment is also one of a double bind, as ...

He elaborates on this interactional terrain whereby the poetic and the narrative interweave: And so it was with us: she, moved b ...

Christian connotations of sacrifice and redemption that debunk any counter claims, and set the scene for a poetics that combines ...

In the month of March we come to the obsession of memories and the plants grow upon us ascending toward all beginnings. This is ...

Dramatic poetry This popular use and adaptation to the demands of the street leads us to the last strategy of dramatization, dra ...

And they would not follow you Because of their hatred of those who are above you? (Ibid. 18) Notwithstanding the dramatic power ...

5 Dedications as poetic intersections What is it that touched Mutanabbi^1 Other than this soil that felt his tread? He betrayed ...

Arab gift compendiums In its evolution and scope, the brothers’ compendium, Kitmb al-Tu.af wa-al-Hadmym, offers more than one pi ...

As if anticipating Mauss’ reading of reciprocity, the poet’s mind is drawn to the very act of exchange as the norm of those time ...

In other words, poets in that age of prosperity attempted to manipulate a discourse of daily transactions while setting a higher ...

There is much to corroborate Derrida’s “simulacrum of narrative.” However, poets proceed at times from claims counter to gift ex ...

of homage and allegiance whereby the poem as an intertextual space betrays its dialogue with other utterances while laying claim ...

Al->aklm’s Bird of the East Although specifically concerned with poetry, the following introductory references to al->aklm ...

round” (Ibid. 87). As if echoing William Wordsworth’s pronouncement that “Nature never did betray / the heart that loved her” (“ ...