Arabic poetry : trajectories of modernity and tradition / Muhsin J. al-Musawi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mūsawī, Muḥsin Jāsim.

Series:

Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern Literatures

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Arabic poetry--20th century--History and criticism.

Arabic poetry.

Arabic literature--20th century--History and criticism.

Arabic literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (351 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Since the late 1940s, Arabic poetry has spoken for an Arab conscience, as much as it has debated positions and ideologies, nationally and worldwide. This book tackles issues of modernity and tradition in Arabic poetry as manifested in poetic texts and criticism by poets as participants in transformation and change. It studies the poetic in its complexity, relating to issues of selfhood, individuality, community, religion, ideology, nation, class and gender.Al-Musawi also explores in context issues that have been cursorily noticed or neglected, like Shi'i poetics, Sufism, women's poet

Contents:

BOOK COVER; HALF-TITLE; SERIES-TITLE; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; DEDICATION; CONTENTS; PREFACE; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; A NOTE ON TRANSLATION AND TRANSLITERATION; 1. POETIC TRAJECTORIES: Critical introduction; 2. THE TRADITION-MODERNITY NEXUS IN ARABIC POETICS; 3. POETIC STRATEGIES: Thresholds for conformity and dissent; 4. POETIC DIALOGIZATION: Ancestors in the text-figures and figurations; 5. DEDICATIONS AS POETIC INTERSECTIONS; 6. ENVISIONING EXILE: Past anchors and problematic encounters; 7. THE EDGE OF RECOGNITION AND REJECTION: Why T.S. Elliot?

8. CONCLUSION: Deviational and reversal poetics-dissent, not allegianceNOTES; WORKS CITED; INDEX

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-135-98925-7

0-916798-15-1

1-135-98926-5

1-280-55304-9

9786610553044

0-203-96541-8

9780203965412

OCLC:

299572214