| Metapoesis in the Arabic Tradition: From Modernists to Muḥdathūn Contributor(s): Fakhreddine, Huda J. (Author) |
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ISBN: 9004294562 ISBN-13: 9789004294561 Publisher: Brill OUR PRICE: $143.45 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Language: Arabic Published: August 2015 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | Anthologies (multiple Authors) - Literary Criticism | African |
| Dewey: 892.71 |
| LCCN: 2015020189 |
| Series: Brill Studies in Middle Eastern Literatures |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 6.2" W x 9.4" (1.10 lbs) 232 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In Metapoesis in the Arabic Tradition Huda J. Fakhreddine expands the study of metapoesis to include the Abbasid age in Arabic literature. Through this lens that is often used to study modernist poetry of the 20th and the 21st century, this book detects and examines a meta-poetic tendency and a self-reflexive attitude in the poetry of the first century of Abbasid poets. What and why is poetry? are questions the Abbasid poets asked themselves with the same persistence and urgency their modern successor did. This approach to the poetry of the Abbasid age serves to refresh our sense of what is "modernist" or "poetically new" and detach it from chronology. |
