UID:
edocfu_9959615332402883
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.
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Frontmatter --
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Letter from the General Editor --
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Table of Contents --
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Introduction --
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Note on the Text --
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Notes to the Introduction --
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Risible Rhymes --
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Notes --
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Glossary --
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Bibliography --
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Index --
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About the NYU Abu Dhabi Institute --
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About the Typefaces --
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Titles Published by the Library of Arabic Literature --
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About the Editor–Translator
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In English.
Language:
English
DOI:
10.18574/9781479890781
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781479890781
