UID:
almahu_9949703393002882
Format:
1 online resource.
ISBN:
9789047404408
,
9789004130302
Series Statement:
Brill Studies in Middle Eastern Literatures ; 29
Content:
Representing the most sustained investigation of the aesthetics of Anti-Colonialism in modern Arabic poetry, this book chronicles the evolution of a distinct poetics that sought to maintain the integrity of the qaṣīdah without circumventing its historical moment. It painstakingly analyses a selection of odes by four leading twentieth-century poets, Aḥmad Shawqī, Maʿrūf al-Ruṣāfī, Badr Shākir al-Sayyāb and ʿAbd al-Wahhāb al-Bayātī. It will be of particular interest to scholars and students of Arabic literature, Islamic and Middle Eastern studies, Postcolonial studies, Comparative literature, and Cultural studies.
Additional Edition:
Print version: The Poetics of Anti-Colonialism in the Arabic Qaṣīdah. Leiden ; Boston : BRILL, 2004 ISBN 9789004130302
Language:
English
