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Format: 1 online resource

ISBN: 9781479890781

Series Statement: Library of Arabic Literature ; 31

Content: Written in mid-17th centuryEgypt, Risible Rhymesis in part a short, comic disquisition on “rural” verse, mocking thepretensions and absurdities of uneducated poets from Egypt’s countryside.The interestin the countryside as a cultural, social, economic, and religious locus inits own right that is hinted at in this work may be unique in pre-twentieth-centuryArabic literature. As such, the work provides a companion piece to its slightlyyounger contemporary, Yusuf al-Shirbini’s Brains Confounded by the Ode of AbuShaduf Expounded, which also takes examples of mock-rural poems andsubjects them to grammatical analysis. The overlap between the two texts mayindicate that they both emanate from a common corpus of pseudo-rural verse thatcirculated in Ottoman Egypt.Risible Rhymes also examines various kinds of puzzlepoems—another popular genre of the day—and presents a debate between scholarsover a line of verse by the tenth-century poet al-Mutanabbi. Taken as a whole, RisibleRhymes offers intriguing insight into the critical concerns of mid-OttomanEgypt, showcasing the intense preoccupation with wordplay, grammar, andstylistics that dominated discussions of poetry in al-Sanhuri’s day andshedding light on the literature of this understudied era.

Note: Frontmatter -- , Letter from the General Editor -- , Table of Contents -- , Introduction -- , Note on the Text -- , Notes to the Introduction -- , Risible Rhymes -- , Notes -- , Glossary -- , Bibliography -- , Index -- , About the NYU Abu Dhabi Institute -- , About the Typefaces -- , Titles Published by the Library of Arabic Literature -- , About the Editor–Translator , In English.

Language: English

DOI: 10.18574/9781479890781

URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781479890781

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Format: 1 online resource (88 pages).

ISBN: 1-4798-9078-2

Series Statement: Library of Arabic Literature ; 31

Content: Written in mid-17th centuryEgypt, Risible Rhymesis in part a short, comic disquisition on “rural” verse, mocking thepretensions and absurdities of uneducated poets from Egypt’s countryside.The interestin the countryside as a cultural, social, economic, and religious locus inits own right that is hinted at in this work may be unique in pre-twentieth-centuryArabic literature. As such, the work provides a companion piece to its slightlyyounger contemporary, Yusuf al-Shirbini’s Brains Confounded by the Ode of AbuShaduf Expounded, which also takes examples of mock-rural poems andsubjects them to grammatical analysis. The overlap between the two texts mayindicate that they both emanate from a common corpus of pseudo-rural verse thatcirculated in Ottoman Egypt.Risible Rhymes also examines various kinds of puzzlepoems—another popular genre of the day—and presents a debate between scholarsover a line of verse by the tenth-century poet al-Mutanabbi. Taken as a whole, RisibleRhymes offers intriguing insight into the critical concerns of mid-OttomanEgypt, showcasing the intense preoccupation with wordplay, grammar, andstylistics that dominated discussions of poetry in al-Sanhuri’s day andshedding light on the literature of this understudied era.

Note: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph , Frontmatter -- , Letter from the General Editor -- , Table of Contents -- , Introduction -- , Note on the Text -- , Notes to the Introduction -- , Risible Rhymes -- , Notes -- , Glossary -- , Bibliography -- , Index -- , About the NYU Abu Dhabi Institute -- , About the Typefaces -- , Titles Published by the Library of Arabic Literature -- , About the Editor–Translator , Issued also in print. , English

Additional Edition: ISBN 1-4798-7792-1

Language: English

Keywords: Electronic books.

DOI: 10.18574/9781479890781