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The Arabic prose poem : poetic theory and practice / Huda J. Fakhreddine.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fakhreddine, Huda J., author.
- Series:
- Edinburgh studies in modern Arabic literature.
- Edinburgh scholarship online.
- Edinburgh studies in modern Arabic literature
- Edinburgh scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Arabic poetry--History and criticism.
- Arabic poetry.
- Prose poems, Arabic--History and criticism.
- Prose poems, Arabic.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (289 pages).
- Place of Publication:
- Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2022.
- Summary:
- Huda J. Fakhreddine explores the 'new genre' of the Arabic prose poem as a poetic practice and a critical lens. Fakhreddine examines the history of the prose poem, its claims of autonomy and distance from its socio-political context, and the anxiety and scandal it generated.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Series Editor’s Foreword
- Note on Transliteration and Translation
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: The Arabic Poem that Jumped the Fence
- 1 Precursors, Terms and Manifestos between Theory and Practice
- 2 The Prose Poem and the Arabic Tradition
- 3 Adonis: Writing Where the World Begins and Begins Again
- 4 Muhammad al-Maghut and Poetic Detachment
- 5 Mahmoud Darwish as Middleman
- 6 Salim Barakat: Poetry as Linguistic Conquest
- 7 Wadiʿ Saʿadeh and the Third Generation of Prose Poets: An Arabic Poetics of Translation and Exophony
- Afterword
- Bibliography
- Index
- Notes:
- Previously issued in print: 2021.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on May 5, 2022).
- ISBN:
- 1-4744-7499-3
- 1-4744-9549-4
- 1-4744-7498-5
- OCLC:
- 1245845728
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