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Of lost cities : the Maghribī poetic imagination / Nizar F. Hermes.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hermes, Nizar F., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Elegiac poetry, Arabic--History and criticism.
- Elegiac poetry, Arabic.
- Arabic poetry--History and criticism.
- Arabic poetry.
- Nostalgia in literature.
- Cities and towns in literature.
- Memory in literature.
- Loss (Psychology) in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiv, 241 pages)
- Other Title:
- Maghribī poetic imagination
- Place of Publication:
- Montreal ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2024]
- Contents:
- Ibn Rashīq's Mournful Elegy for the Destruction of Qayrawan
- Ibn Sharaf 's Wailing Elegies for Qayrawan
- Mourning over Palatial Ruins: Ibn Ḥammād al-Ṣanhājī's Lament for Qalʻat Banī Ḥammād
- The Dey's Doomed Éventail: Ibn al-Shāhid's Classical and Vernacular Cris over La prise d'Alger
- Al-Ḥuṣrī al-Ḍarīr: A Blind Poet's recherche de la Qayrawan perdue
- The Exilic Tragedy of Ibn Khamīs: Granadian Longing for a Lost Tlemcen
- "This Tunis, Sir, was Carthage!": Abū al-Fatḥ al-Tūnisī's Levantine Yearning for the Bride of the Maghrib
- Olives Before Walls: Al-Tuhāmī Amghār's Pastoral Nostalgia for Imperial Meknes.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Berlin Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 11, 2024).
- Other Format:
- Print version: Hermes, Nizar F. Of lost cities.
- ISBN:
- 9780228022305
- 0228022304
- 9780228023036
- 0228023033
- Publisher Number:
- 40032540068
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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