UID:
almafu_9959227960502883
Umfang:
1 online resource (314 p.)
Ausgabe:
1st ed.
ISBN:
0-8047-8260-1
Inhalt:
Silencing the Sea follows Palestinian poets' debates about their craft as they traverse multiple and competing realities of secularism and religion, expulsion and occupation, art, politics, immortality, death, fame, and obscurity. Khaled Furani takes his reader down ancient roads and across military checkpoints to join the poets' worlds and engage with the rhythms of their lifelong journeys in Islamic and Arabic history, language, and verse. This excursion offers newfound understandings of how today's secular age goes far beyond doctrine, to inhabit our very senses, imbuing all tha
Anmerkung:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Secular bewilderment -- Rhythms and rulers -- The land of the poem -- Memory for beginnings -- Metrical discipline and mastery -- Poets for "the people" -- Enough "screaming" -- Rhythmical freedom -- Modern poets and "conservative" people -- Redeeming prose -- When meter melts -- The laity outside poetry's temple -- Conclusions : secular prayers.
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English
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 0-8047-7646-6
Sprache:
Englisch
Fachgebiete:
Komparatistik. Außereuropäische Sprachen/Literaturen
Schlagwort(e):
Electronic books
DOI:
10.1515/9780804782609
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=1074035
URL:
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