Arabic Poetry: Trajectories of Modernity and Tradition

CONTENTS

• 1 Poetic trajectories: critical introduction A note on translation and transliteration xxi
  
  
  • Arabic poetry in context
  
  
  • Modernism and secular ideology
  
  
  • The modernist impulse and its aftermath
  
  
  • poetics 2 The tradition–modernity nexus in Arabic
  
  
  • A dynamic tradition
  
  
  • Masks
  
  
  • The surviving past
  
  
  • Recollections
  
  
  • Why precursors?
  
  
  • Translation as a modernist engagement
  
  
  • Configurational sites: classical and modern
  
  
  • Undermining poetics
  
  
  • Which tradition in the Rome conference (1961)?
  
  
  • The dialectics of tradition and modernity
  
  
  • Adnnls: the challenge of tradition
  
  
  • Modernity as a constant
  
  
  • Al-Baymtl’s tradition
  
  
  • Poetic career: Xalm.cAbd al-Xabnr
  
  
  
  


• 3 Poetic strategies: thresholds for conformity and dissent
  
  
  • The neoclassical qaxldah:Al-Jawmhirl
  
  
  • Addressing the strong precursor
  
  
  • Approaching the glorious legacy: three directions
  
  
  • cAbd al-Xabnr and the emulation of independence
  
  
  • Al-Baymtl’s alien and rebellious precursors
  
  
  • Recreating the forebear
  
  
  • Adnnls’ objectifications of forebears
  
  
  • Trajectories of modernity and tradition
  
  
  • Conclusion
  
  
  • and figurations 4 Poetic dialogization: ancestors in the text—figures
  
  
  • Targeting the unitary discourse
  
  
  
  


• 5 Dedications as poetic intersections
  
  
  • Arab gift compendiums
  
  
  • Poetic simulacrum of narrative
  
  
  • The prefatory and dedicatory in poetry
  
  
  • Al->aklm’s Bird of the East
  
  
  • Dedicatory matter: identity for acculturation
    
    
    • and the forlorn Al-Baymtland Khalll >mwl—the existentialist
    
    
    
    
  
  
  • Al-Sayymb’s lyrical–elegiac mood
  
  
  • Dedications as paratexts: al-Khml
  
  
  • Addressing Lorca
  
  
  • Elegy, dedication, and repression
  
  
  • Al-Mutanabbl: between al-Baymtland Adnnls
  
  
  • Appendix I
  
  
  • Appendix II
  
  
  • problematic encounters 6 Envisioning exile: past anchors and
  
  
  • Exilic evocations
  
  
  • Exilic trajectories
  
  
  • Textual homelands in context
  
  
  
  


• 7 The edge of recognition and rejection: why T. S. Eliot?
  
  
  • Marxism Christianized
  
  
  • Deconstructing myth
  
  
  • Tradition and the polyphonic poem
  
  
  • The paradoxical appeal of The Waste Land
  
  
  • Disinheritance through excessive patching
  
  
  • Eliot appropriated in traditional satire
  
  
  • not allegiance 8 Conclusion: deviational and reversal poetics—dissent,
  
  
  • Poetics of legitimacy in context
  
  
  • The elegiac prelude
  
  
  • Classical transgressions
  
  
  • Engagements and invalidations
  
  
  • Iraqi pain recaptured
  
  
  • Sufism and transgression
  
  
  • Elegizing a present
  
  
  • Notes
  
  
  • Works cited
  
  
  • Index