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Arabic poetics : aesthetic experience in classical Arabic literature / Lara Harb.
Van Pelt Library PN1049.A7 H37 2020
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Harb, Lara, author.
- Series:
- Cambridge studies in Islamic civilization
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Poetics--History--To 1500.
- Poetics.
- History.
- Arabic poetry--750-1258--History and criticism.
- Arabic poetry.
- Arabic poetry--1258-1800--History and criticism.
- Arabic language--Versification--History.
- Arabic language.
- Arabic language--Versification.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 298 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, UK ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2020.
- Summary:
- "The sixth/twelfth-century Andalusian philosopher Ibn Rushd, or Averroes as he is known in Latin, cites the following early Islamic-era verse in his commentary on Aristotle's Poetics. In it, the poet describes having a conversation with his fellow caravan travelers on camelback on their way home after they have fulfilled their pilgrimage duties in Mecca"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: Wonder
- Classical Arabic Literary Theory
- Poetic Criticism and Badi
- Aristotelian Arabic Poetics
- Eloquence and Bayan (Elucidation)
- The Miracle of the Quran
- Al-Jurjani and the Science of Eloquence (Balagha)
- The New Aesthetic
- 1. Wonder: A New Paradigm
- I. The Old School of Literary Criticism
- Naturalness and Artificiality
- The Fundaments of Poetry (Amud al-shi'r)
- Truth and Falsehood
- Early Defenses of the New Style
- II. The New School of Criticism
- Make-Believe (Takhyil)
- The Aesthetics of Make-Believe
- Hyperbole
- The Aesthetics of Badi'
- Conclusion
- 2. Wonder in Aristotelian Arabic Poetics
- Background
- Al-Farabi: The Beginnings
- Ibn Sina: A New Conception of the Poetic
- Takhyil
- Muhakat
- Muhakat and Wonder
- The Ways of Producing Takhyil: Muhakat and Badi'
- Ibn Rushd and the Poetics of Alteration
- Alteration (Taghyir)
- Why Is Alteration Poetic?
- What about Muhakat?
- The Relationship between Muhakat and Taghyir (Alteration)
- Al-Qartajanni: Strange-Making and Reception
- Primary and Secondary Takhyil
- The Arts of "Strange-Making"
- Believability and Reception
- AJ-Sijilmasi: Truth-Falsehood Revisited
- Takhyil and Discovery
- Return to the Truth-Falsehood Debate?
- 3. Discovery in Bayan
- Simile as Bayan
- Al-Jurjani and the Wonders of Discovery
- Discovery
- Effort
- The Distance Formula
- Strangeness
- Simile and the Science of Bayan
- The Purpose of Simile: Discovery and Novelty
- 4. Metaphor and the Aesthetics of the Sign
- Abd al-Qahir al-Jurjani and the Eloquence of the Word
- Metaphor, Figurative Speech, and Metonymy
- Simile, Analogy, and Metaphorical Analogy
- Indirect Signification and Eloquence
- What Makes One Metaphor Better than Another?
- `Ilm al-Bayan (The Science of Elucidation)
- Definition of the Science of Elucidation (`Ilm al-Bayan)
- Signification and Deduction
- `Ilm al-Bayan and Eloquence
- Variation in Bay an
- Simile as Indirect Signification?
- 5. Nazm, Wonder, and the Inimitability of the Quran
- The Miracle and Wonder
- Early Arguments
- `Abd al-Qahir al-Jurjani
- Nazm
- Figurativeness in Nazm
- The Meanings of Syntax vs. the Meaning of Meaning
- Sentence Construction (Nazm) and Eloquence
- Nazm and Wonder
- Nazm after al-Jurjani
- The Science of Meanings (`Ilm al-Ma'ani)
- The New Conceptualization of Nazm
- The Unexpected
- The Science of Meanings and Eloquence
- Conclusion: The Miracle
- Epilogue: Fasaha, Balagha, and Poetic Beauty
- Timing of New Aesthetic
- Art for Art's Sake?
- Is It for Everyone?
- Beyond Arabic Literature.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Harb, Lara, 1981- Arabic poetics
- ISBN:
- 9781108490214
- 1108490212
- OCLC:
- 1128196626
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