Arabic Poetry: Trajectories of Modernity and Tradition

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64 For examples, see Mounah A. Khouri and Hamid Algar, An Anthology of Modern
Arabic Poetry, pp. 109–20.
65 ‘Abd a-Wahhmb al-Baymtl, Dlwmn (Beirut: Dmr al-‘Awdah, 1972), vol. 2,
pp. 414–16; also al-Sammmn, Al-‘Arn,al-jadld, p. 51.
66 For a discussion of prosimetrum, see Wolfhart Heinrichs, “Prosimetrical Genres
in Classical Arabic Literature,” in Prosimetrum: Crosscultural Perspectives on
Narrative in Prose and Verse, eds Joseph Harris and Karl Reichl (Cambridge:
D. S. Brewer, 1997), pp. 249–76.
67 See Philip Kennedy, Wine Song in Classical Arabic Poetry: Abu Nuwas and the
Literary Tradition(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997).
68 Al-Yayyib Smlih, Season of Migration to the North, trans. Denys Johnson-Davies
(London: Heinemann, 1969–1970), p. 144.
69 See ed. and intro., Salma K. Jayyusi, Anthology of Modern Palestinian Literature
(New York: Columbia University Press, 1992), pp. 148–49.
70 For a neat reading of early examples of the mode, see W. Heinrichs,
“Prosimetrical Genres in Classical Arabic.”
71 See Khalil I. Semaan’s introduction, Murder in Baghdad(Leiden: Brill, 1972).
72 A mention of this impact has already been made in Chapter 2.
73 Ali Ahmed Said Adonis, “Poetry and Apoetical Culture,” trans., Esther Allen
from the French, in The pages of Day and Night, trans., Samuel Hazo (Evanston,
IL: Northwestern University Press, 1994), p. 107.
74 Ibid.
75 ‘Abd al-Xabnr, Murder in Baghdad, trans., Khalil I. Semaan p. 15.
76 Buland al->aydarl, Dialogue in Three Dimensions, trans., H. Hadawy (London:
PAMEGAP, 1982).
77 Michel Foucault, The Archaeology of Knowledge(London: Routledge, 1997), p. 21.


5 DEDICATIONS AS POETIC INTERSECTIONS
1 Reference to the renowned Arab poet who was killed in 965.
2 Alan D. Schrift, “Introduction: Why Gift,” in The Logic of the Gift: Toward an
Ethic of Generosity, ed. Alan D. Schrift (London: Routledge, 1997), pp. 1–22.
Mauss’s theory of the gift has been applied to the ritual exchange between poet
and patron in the classical Arabic qaxldahby Suzanne P. Stetkevych, “Pre-Islamic
Panegyric and the Poetics of Redemption Mufa,,allyah 119of cAlqamah and
Bmnat Sucmdof Kacb ibn Zuhayr,” in Reorientations: Arabic and Persian Poetry, ed.
Suzanne P. Stetkevych (Bloomington and Indianapolis, IN: Indiana University
Press, 1994), pp. 1–57.
3Smmlal-Dahhmn, ed., Kitmb al-Tu.af wa-al-Hadmym(Cairo: Dmr al-Macmrif, 1956).
4 Cited in Schrift, “Introduction: Why Gift,” The Logic of the Gift, p. 5.
5 Al-Dahhmn, Kitmb al-Tu.af wa-al-Hadmym, pp. 7–8. Translations from the
Arabic are mine except where otherwise noted.
6 Cited in Schrift, “Introduction: Why Gift,” The Logic of the Gift, p. 15.
7 Al-Dahhmn, Kitmb al-Tu.af wa-al-Hadmym, p. 49.
8 Emile Benveniste, “Gift and Exchange in the Indo-European Vocabulary,” in
Alan D. Schrift, The Logic of the Gift, pp. 33–42, at p. 33.
9 Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Gift,” in The Logic of the Gift, ed. Alan D. Schrift,
pp. 25–27, at p. 26.
10 Jacques Derrida, Given Time: I. Counterfeit Money, trans. Peggy Kamuf (Chicago,
IL: University of Chicago Press, 1994), pp. 43–44.


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