NOTES
66 See Jabrm, “Modern Arabic Literature and the West,” pp. 12–13.
67 T. S. Eliot, “Tradition and the Individual Talent,” in Twentieth-Century Literary
Criticism, ed. Lodge, pp. 71–77, at p. 76; also T. S. Eliot, The Sacred Wood
(London: Methuen, 1920; reprint, 1960), p. 58.
68 See T. S. Eliot’s introductory note Literary Essays of Ezra Pound(New York:
A New Directions Book, 1918; reprint, 1968). However, for a summary of Yeats
and Pound’s positions on masks, see Carol T. Christ, Victorian and Modern Poetics,
pp. 33–44.
69 Eliot, “Tradition and the Individual Talent,” p. 71.
70 T. S. Eliot, “The Function of Criticism,” in Twentieth-Century Literary
Criticism, ed. David, Lodge (London: Longman, 1972), p. 77.
71 Jabrm, “The Rebels, the Committed and the Others,” p. 196.
72 Jabrm, “Modern Arabic Literature and the West,” p. 13.
73 Pêcheux’s phrases in Issa Boullata’s neat summary. See Trends and Issues in
Contemporary Arab Thought(New York: State University of New York, 1990), p. 141.
74 See Harold Bloom, A Map of Misreading(Oxford: Oxford University Press,
1975); and The Anxiety of Influence(London and New York: Oxford University
Press, 1973).
75 Ezra Pound, “The Tradition” (an article published in Dec. 1913), in Literary
Essays of Ezra Pound, p. 91.
76 Michel Pécheux, Language, Semantics, and Ideology(New York: St Martin’s Press,
1982).
77 Issa Boullata, Trends and Issues, p. 141.
78 See the poem in An Anthology of Modern Arabic Poetry, selected, edited and
translated by Mounah A. Khouri and Hamid Algar (Berkeley, CA: University
of California Press, 1975), pp. 115–16.
79 Issa J. Boullata, Trends and Issues, p. 141.
80 JabrmI. Jabrm, “Modern Arabic Literature and the West,” p. 12.
81 Ibid., p. 13.
82 T. S. Eliot, “The Function of Criticism,” p. 77.
83 John M. Asfour’s translation, When the Words Burn, p. 162.
84 See his Al-A‘mml al-shi‘riyyah al-kmmila(Beirut: Dmr Al-‘Awdah, 4th printing,
1985), vol. 1, pp. 411–14.
85 For a discussion on Sufi rejection of things partaking of secular knowledge, see
A. Schimmel, Mystical Dimensions of Islam(Chapel Hill, NC: University of
North Carolina Press, 1975).
86 Adnnls, Al-A‘mml al-shi‘riyyah al-kmmila, vol. 1, pp. 418–20.
87 The original is in Murld Barghnthl’s collection, Qaxm’id mukhtmrah(Naples: Dmr
al-Fmrnq, 1996), pp. 32–33, trans., Lena Jayyusi and W. Merwin, in Anthology
of Modern Palestinian Poetryand ed. Salma K. Jayyusi (New York: Columbia
University Press, 1992), pp. 126–27.
88 Amjad Nmxir, Athar al-‘Mbir(The Trace of the passerby) (Cairo: Dmr Sharqiyymt,
1995), pp. 73–74.
89 Trans., May Jayyusi and Charles Doria, Modern Arabic Poetry: An Anthologyed.
Sama K. Jayyusi (New York: Columbia University, 1987), pp. 361–62.
90 Born in Amman, 1945. For the poem, see The Poetry of Arab Women: A Contemporary
Anthology, ed. Nathalie Handal (New York: Interlink, 2001), pp. 277–78.
91 Kamal Boullata’s translation, See The Poetry of Arab Women, pp. 277–78.
92 Luwls cAwa,, Al-Thawrah wa- al-adab(Revolution and Literature) (Cairo: Rnz
al-Ynsuf, 1971).