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Metapoesis in the Arabic tradition : from modernists to muḥdathūn / by Huda J. Fakhreddine.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fakhreddine, Huda J.
- Series:
- Brill studies in Middle Eastern literatures ; 36.
- Brill studies in Middle Eastern literatures ; 36
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Arabic poetry--20th century--History and criticism.
- Arabic poetry.
- Free verse--History and criticism.
- Free verse.
- Arabic poetry--750-1258--History and criticism.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Physical Description:
- 222 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2015.
- Summary:
- In Metapoesis in the Arabic Tradition, Huda J. Fakhreddine expands the study of metapoesis to include the Abbasid age in Arabic literature. Through this lens that is often used to study modernist poetry of the 20th and the 21st century, this book detects and examines a meta-poetic tendency and a self-reflexive attitude in the poetry of the first century of Abbasid poets. What and why is poetry? Are questions the Abbasid poets asked themselves with the same persistence and urgency their modern successors did. This approach to the poetry of the Abbasid age serves to refresh our sense of what is "modern" or "poetically new" and-detach it from chronology. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Introducing metapoesis in Arabic poetry
- Arabic poetry in the twentieth century
- The free verse movement: a metapoetic project
- The second generation: metapoesis in progress
- Metapoesis in the Abbasid age
- Audience, critics, and poetic debates
- Abbasid poets and reflections on poetry
- The abodes are not the abodes: the Abbasid meta-nasib
- The elegiac prelude: evoking voice in the qasidah
- Abu Nuwas: toying with the atlal motif
- Abu Tammam's elegiac preludes: abstraction and change
- The freeing of the atlal motifs: after Abu Tammam
- Crossing line after line: the Abbasid poetic rahil
- Abu Tammam herds "virgin meanings"
- Ibn al-Rumi journeys "line after line"
- A poem about a poem about a poem: two poets and a patron
- Al-Buhturi and 'Ubaydallah b. Tahir: a failed exachange
- A poem about a poem about a poem
- Poems to a friend: Ibn al-Rumi responds
- Conclusion.
- Notes:
- Originally presented as the author's dissertation (doctoral)--Indiana University, 2011.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9789004294561
- 9004294562
- OCLC:
- 904036809
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