Arabic Poetry: Trajectories of Modernity and Tradition

mythology: recovery of native
mythology 59; Sumerian 27,
107–11
Mzmll, Mu.ammad 55

Nabokov, Vladimir: expatriatism
167–68
Nahr bayna janmzatayn(A River
between Two Funerals) (Bennls) 37
“Al-Nahr wa-al-mawt” (Death and the
River) (al-Sayymb) 142
Nmjl, Ibrmhlm27
narratives 89, 90, 123, 156
Nmxir, Amjad 50–52, 249–52
al-Nmxir, Jamml ‘Abd 22, 24;
elegies to 265–66
nationalism 22–23, 61, 265;
leftist groups 23; in modernist
poetics 23–24
nation-state building: acceptance of
Western model 7–8
al-Nawwmb, Muzaffar 139
neo-revivalist movement 9
Neruda, Pablo 15, 39, 44, 199, 203,
220, 225
al-Niffarl, Mu.ammad 59, 79,
116–17, 262
“The Nightmare of Night and Day”
(al-Baymtl) 227–28, 229
normative patterning 242–43
nostalgia 244, 247–48, 253–55
Nnrl, cAbd al-Malik 69
“Nuxnxsharqiyyah” (Oriental Texts)
(al-Baymtl) 201

objectifications 27, 31, 45, 72,
223, 256
ode 1, 40, 44–45, 240–42, 245;
history and cultural role 2;
meters and formulas 1–2;
neoclassical 68–69
“On the Death of Nizar Qabbani”
(Kahf) 97–99
oracular poetics 3–4
Ovid: difference between exile and
adventure 176; exile 165, 170,
174–75, 183, 185, 187

Palestinian identity 26, 125–26
panegyrics 76, 83, 132, 134–35, 242

paratexts 143–44

parody 96–99, 123

Pearse, St John 225

personae 19, 31, 38, 46, 54, 64–65,

80, 153–54, 229, 233; poetic

dialogization 91–96;

Pound’s use of 32

plagiarism 42, 43, 46, 239, 246

poetic dialogization 82–83, 88–89

poetic prose 66–67

poetics of allegiance 238, 239, 241,

248–49

poetic strategies 54–55, 68, 82–85;

dedications to precursors &

contemporaries 68, 83–84

polyphonic poem 224–26

popular poetry 117–23

Pound, Ezra 15, 28, 30, 32, 42, 43,

44, 45, 87, 135, 143–44, 223, 224;

exile 165

precursors 39–42, 57, 147, 188–89,

259–60; addressing the strong

precursor 69–71; in al-Baymtl’s

poetry 223; transgression and

revolt 42; understanding of

language 60

preludes: elegiac 243–45, 247; nostalgic

253–55; Sufis use of 246–47

Prevert, Jacques 225

property exchange 131–33

prosimetrum 67, 123–27

“Al-Qabm’il” (The Tribes)

(al-Barghnthl)50

Qabbmnl, Nizmr 24, 65, 97–99;

elegies 264–67

qaxldah seeode

“Qaxldatmn ilmwaladl‘All”

(“Two Poems to My Son Ali”)

(al-Baymtl) 103–05

“Qinm’ li-Majnnn Laylm” (A Mask for

Layla’s Mad Lover) (Darwlsh) 32

al-Qumml, AbnJacfar 131

al-Qushayrl 246

rain 257–58, 259

ramal 122

rebellion 204–05

recollections 37, 38–39, 85, 267; about

precursors 39–44

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