Arabic Poetry: Trajectories of Modernity and Tradition

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focus more on a poetics of engagement, not only in its political overtones, but
also mainly as an effort to envision a role in an uncongenial circumstance.
Tradition itself is no longer one piece, and poets develop a revisionist poetics
that questions the dominating discourse, and at times neoclassical language,
as the one with a vested interest in the status quo.


POETIC TRAJECTORIES: CRITICAL INTRODUCTION
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