UID:
almahu_9949852202902882
Format:
1 online resource (xii, 288 pages).
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-280-91472-6
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9786610914722
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90-474-0440-8
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1-4294-0712-3
Series Statement:
Brill studies in Middle Eastern literatures, v. 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.
Note:
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
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Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1 The Lord and the Bard: Colonial Discourse and Counter-discourse -- Chapter 2 Empire as Occasion: Ahmad Shawq& -- #299 -- 's Elegy for Damascus -- Chapter 3 Ma'r& -- #363 -- f al-Rus& -- #257 -- f& -- #299 -- and the Poetics of Anti-Colonialism -- Chapter 4 Rewriting the Metropolitan Text: Badr Sh& -- #257 -- kir al-Sayy& -- #257 -- b on "Arab Decline" -- Chapter 5 Palestine: The Central Cause: 'Abd al-Wahh& -- #257 -- b al-Bay& -- #257 -- t& -- #299 -- 's "Odes to Jaffa" -- Chapter 6 The Elusive Dream: 'Abd al-Wahh& -- #257 -- b al-Bay& -- #257 -- t& -- #299 -- 's Odes to His Son 'Al& -- #299 -- -- Epilogue -- Appendices -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
,
English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 90-04-13030-6
Language:
English
