Arabic Prose Poetry in 1930s Egypt : Engaging a Forgotten Archive.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fayek, Nevine, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Arabic poetry.

Modernism (Literature)--Egypt.

Modernism (Literature).

Prose poems, Arabic--History and criticism.

Prose poems, Arabic.

Genre:

Literary criticism

Physical Description:

1 online resource (285 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London : Bloomsbury Publishing (UK), 2026.

System Details:

text file rdaft

Summary:

A reappraisal of the importance of Arabic prose poetry (al-shi'r al-manthur) in the context of Egyptian literary modernism using previously untapped private archives.

Contents:

Cover

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Notes on Terminology

1 Al-Shiʿr al-manthūr: Exploring Dynamics of Egyptian Cultural Memory

1.1 The Private Archive of a Forgotten Prose Poet

1.2 Al-shiʿr al-manthūr: Historical Beginnings

1.3 Critical Approaches to al-Shiʿr al-manthūr

2 Historical Background: Conceptual Transformations from Nahḍa to 1930s Egypt

2.1 Nahḍa Transitions and Conceptual Transformations

2.1.1 Rethinking Poetry

2.1.2 Prose within New Practices of Journalistic Writing

2.1.3 Impacts of the Act of Translation

2.2 Manifestations of a New Cultural Field in 1930s Egypt

2.2.1 Poetry at Crossroads

2.2.2 Poetic Innovation and the Question of al-Shiʿr al-manthūr

3 Al-Shiʿr al-manthūr between Canon and Archive

3.1 Revisiting the Canon: Apollo on the Question of al-Shiʿr al-manthūr

3.1.1 Apollo on Artistic Freedoms

3.1.2 Apollo on al-Shiʿr al-manthūr

3.2 Traces from the Archive: al-Imām and Adabī-Extensions of the Apollo Experience

3.2.1 Al-Imām (monthly, Alexandria: 1936-1937)

3.2.2 Adabī (quarterly, Alexandria: 1936-1937)

3.2.3 Around the Apollo Experience: al-Shiʿr al-manthūr in al-Imām and Adabī

4 Traces to the "Forgotten" and to Overlooked Literary Periodicals

4.1 From ʿAfīf's to Maḥmūd Kāmil's Private Archive: al-Jāmiʿa (weekly, Cairo: 1930-1945/48)

4.1.1 Al-Shiʿr al-manthūr within al-Jāmiʿa

4.2 Al-Ḥadīth (monthly, Aleppo: Syria, 1927-1959/1960)

4.2.1 Al-Ḥadīth (The Modern): Modernist Literary and Critical Approaches

4.2.2 Al-Ḥadīth: Poetic Modernization and in-Prose Poetry

4.3 Muḥāḍarāt Madrasat al-shiʿr al-ḥadīth (Lectures of the School of Modern Poetry)

4.3.1 Ḥusayn ʿAfīf: "al-Shiʿr al-manthūr"

4.3.2 Aḥmad Khayrī Saʿīd: "Risālat al-shiʿr al-ḥadīth"

4.3.3 Ibrāhīm Nājī: "Ittijāhāt al-shiʿr al-ḥadīth".

4.3.4 Maḥmūd Aḥmad al-Ḥifnī: "al-Mūsīqā wa-l-shiʿr"

4.3.5 A Note on Tagore and His Prose Poems in Translation

5 Recontextualizing al-Shiʿr al-manthūr: Interrelations of the Avant-Garde Community within the New Cultural Field of 1930s Egypt

5.1 Newly Formed Literary Groups

5.2 Al-Madrasa al-ḥādītha: The Egyptian School of Modern Thought

5.2.1 Aḥmad Khayrī Saʿīd: School Principal of al-Madrasa al-ḥadītha

5.2.2 Narration Arts in Prose and Poetry and the Absence of al-Shiʿr al-qaṣaṣī wa-l-tamthīlī

5.2.3 Destruction and Construction: al-Madrasa al-ḥadītha and New Directions in Modern Criticism

5.3 Drivers of Change in the New Cultural Field and al-Shiʿr al-manthūr

Conclusion

Bibliography

Index.

Other Format:

Print version: Fayek, Nevine Arabic Prose Poetry in 1930s Egypt

ISBN:

9780755655755

OCLC:

1593367226