1987
Author: Salma Khadra Jayyusi
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231052733
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 498
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Presents a collection of poems by ninety-three poets from fifteen Middle East countries.
Author: Salma Khadra Jayyusi
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231052733
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 498
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Presents a collection of poems by ninety-three poets from fifteen Middle East countries.
Author: Mounah A Khouri
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520307526
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Languages : en
Pages : 264
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This bilingual anthology is the first attempt to present a substantial collection of contemporary Arabic poetry in the English language. It acquaints the English-speaking reader with the modern development of one of the world's major poetic traditions, and affords insight into the contemporary cultural situation of the Arab peoples. English translations of Arabic poetry have suffered from aspirations to geographic completeness of representation and excessive concern with the Neo-Classicist school. The present anthology regards poetic quality as the primary criterion of selection and displays an emphatic interest in the poets of free verse. It presents three successive generations--the Syro-Americans, the Egyptian modernist, and the poets of free-verse movement--linked together by a progressive shift from emphasis on form to emphasis on content and form a relatively detached portrayal of the outside world to a concern with the expression of individual experience. Numerous contemporary poets make their first appearance in English, some of them having written pieces specially for this anthology. It is hoped that the bilingual character of the anthology will suit it for use by students of Arabic literature. At the same time, the book is intended for a wider readership with general poetic and literary interests. An important criterion in composing the anthology was the viability of a poem, in its English translation, as a piece of literature as well as the excellence of its Arabic original; if the translators have been successful in applying this criterion, the anthology should afford much aesthetic pleasure. The work should be of considerable interest also to students of comparative literature, as it demonstrates the influence on modern Arab letters of several Western poets, notably Eliot, Yeats, and Pound. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1974.
Author: Mounah A Khouri
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520358740
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Languages : en
Pages : 264
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This bilingual anthology is the first attempt to present a substantial collection of contemporary Arabic poetry in the English language. It acquaints the English-speaking reader with the modern development of one of the world's major poetic traditions, and affords insight into the contemporary cultural situation of the Arab peoples. English translations of Arabic poetry have suffered from aspirations to geographic completeness of representation and excessive concern with the Neo-Classicist school. The present anthology regards poetic quality as the primary criterion of selection and displays an emphatic interest in the poets of free verse. It presents three successive generations--the Syro-Americans, the Egyptian modernist, and the poets of free-verse movement--linked together by a progressive shift from emphasis on form to emphasis on content and form a relatively detached portrayal of the outside world to a concern with the expression of individual experience. Numerous contemporary poets make their first appearance in English, some of them having written pieces specially for this anthology. It is hoped that the bilingual character of the anthology will suit it for use by students of Arabic literature. At the same time, the book is intended for a wider readership with general poetic and literary interests. An important criterion in composing the anthology was the viability of a poem, in its English translation, as a piece of literature as well as the excellence of its Arabic original; if the translators have been successful in applying this criterion, the anthology should afford much aesthetic pleasure. The work should be of considerable interest also to students of comparative literature, as it demonstrates the influence on modern Arab letters of several Western poets, notably Eliot, Yeats, and Pound. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1974.
Author: Muḥammad Muṣṭafá Badawī
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521290234
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 289
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A critical survey of the development and achievements of Arabic poetry over the last 150 years.
Author: John Asfour
Publisher: Dunvegan, Ont. : Cormorant Books
ISBN:
Category : Arabic poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 237
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Author: Muḥammad Muṣṭafá Badawī
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521331975
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 571
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This volume provides an authoritative survey of creative writing in Arabic from the mid-nineteenth century to the present day.
Author: Shmuel Moreh
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Author: Shafīq Mijallī
Publisher:
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Category : Arabic poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 2
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Author: Salma K. Jayyusi
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231075084
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 744
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This comprehensive anthology traces the written record of a people beset by nearly a century of conflict, exile, and dispersal. This collection includes poetry, fiction, and personal narratives by both establishing and rising Palestinian creative writers of the modern period.
Author: Suheil Bushrui
Publisher: Saqi
ISBN: 0863563147
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 447
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The Literary Heritage of the Arabs samples some of the finest literature produced by Arab writers in the last 1,500 years. The selection of poetry and prose spans many genres and styles, conveying the full range of Arab experiences and perspectives - from the tragic to the comic, the wistful to the mystical, the courtly to the lowly, and the Arab East to Andalusia. The reader of this anthology will become aware of the extent to which this vibrant and distinctive literary heritage has always been both receptive to the currents from neighbouring cultures and influential in the evolution of other literary traditions, in South Asia, Western Europe and beyond. Thus, the reader will discover, behind local colours and different literary conventions, our common humanity.
