Takhyīl : the imaginary in classical Arabic poetics / selected, translated, annotated and edited by Geert Jan van Gelder and Marlé Hammond.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gelder, G. J. H. van.

Hammond, Marlé.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Arabic poetry--750-1258--History and criticism.

Arabic poetry.

Imagery (Psychology) in literature.

Visualization in literature.

Fantasy in literature.

Physical Description:

xv, 286 pages ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

[Cambridge, U.K.] : Gibb Memorial Trust, 2008.

Summary:

Takhyil is a term from Arabic poetics denoting the evocation of images. It has a broad spectrum of connotations throughout classical philosophical poetics and rhetoric, and it is closely linked to the Greek concept of phantasia. This first volume (a second is on Takhyil Studies) is comprised of annotated translations of key texts on this topic from major philosophers and literary theoreticians, including Alfarabi (al-Farabi), Avicenna (Ibn Sina), Averroes (Ibn Rushd), and 'Abd al-Qahir al-Jurjani. In her preface, the classicist Anne Sheppard relates takhyil to Greek poetics, and in his introduction, Wolfhart Heinrichs traces the development of the term in the Arabic tradition.

Contents:

Pt 1. Texts

Pt. 2. Studies.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

0906094690

9780906094747

0906094747

9780906094693

OCLC:

77257348

Publisher Number:

99957977536