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Silencing the sea : secular rhythms in Palestinian poetry / Khaled Furani.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Furani, Khaled, 1973-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Arabic poetry--Palestine--History and criticism.
- Arabic poetry.
- Arabic poetry--20th century--History and criticism.
- Poetics.
- Secularism in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (314 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Silencing the Sea follows Palestinian poets' debates about their craft as they traverse multiple and competing realities of secularism and religion, expulsion and occupation, art, politics, immortality, death, fame, and obscurity. Khaled Furani takes his reader down ancient roads and across military checkpoints to join the poets' worlds and engage with the rhythms of their lifelong journeys in Islamic and Arabic history, language, and verse. This excursion offers newfound understandings of how today's secular age goes far beyond doctrine, to inhabit our very senses, imbuing all tha
- Contents:
- Secular bewilderment
- Rhythms and rulers
- The land of the poem
- Memory for beginnings
- Metrical discipline and mastery
- Poets for "the people"
- Enough "screaming"
- Rhythmical freedom
- Modern poets and "conservative" people
- Redeeming prose
- When meter melts
- The laity outside poetry's temple
- Conclusions : secular prayers.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780804782609
- 0804782601
- OCLC:
- 819635308
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