1976-01-01
Author: Shmuel Moreh
Publisher: Brill Archive
ISBN: 9789004047952
Category : Arabic poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 376
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"The purpose of this book is to trace the development of the differing forms employed in various liteary movements in modern Arabic poetry. This development seems to me the most important elemment in the understanding of the contemporary revolution in Arabic poetry. Moreover, this revolution is considered to be the first in the history of Arabic poetry in which the influence of foreign literature has been such that it las almost completely cut off modervn Arabic poetry from its classical heritage." from Introduction.
Author: Shmuel Moreh
Publisher: Brill Archive
ISBN: 9789004047952
Category : Arabic poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 376
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"The purpose of this book is to trace the development of the differing forms employed in various liteary movements in modern Arabic poetry. This development seems to me the most important elemment in the understanding of the contemporary revolution in Arabic poetry. Moreover, this revolution is considered to be the first in the history of Arabic poetry in which the influence of foreign literature has been such that it las almost completely cut off modervn Arabic poetry from its classical heritage." from Introduction.
Author: Salma Khadra Jayyusi
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9789004049208
Category : Arabic poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 538
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Author: Muḥammad Muṣṭafá Badawī
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521290234
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 308
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A critical survey of the development and achievements of Arabic poetry over the last 150 years.
Author: Mounah A. Khouri
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520358740
Category : Poetry
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: Salma Khadra Jayyusi
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231052733
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 534
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Presents a collection of poems by ninety-three poets from fifteen Middle East countries.
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Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 900448518X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 246
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In Islam the fascination for “the word” is as vigorous as in Judaism and in Christianity, but an extra dimension is, that the revealed text, the Koran, is considered to be verbatim the word of the Almighty Himself, thereby providing the Arabic language with just an extra quality. No wonder that throughout Islamic history the study of the word, the Koran, the prophet’s utterances and the interpretation of both, has become the main axis of knowledge and education. As a consequence the intellectuals – and also the poets in Islamic culture - were thoroughly familiar with religious terms and the phraseology of a language which was highly estimated because of the divine origin with which it was associated. No wonder therefore, that allusions to religious texts can be found throughout Arabic literature, both classical and modern. The subject of this volume is the representation of the divine in Arabic poetry, be it the experience of the divine as expressed by poets or the use of imagery coined by religion.
Author: Khalid A. Sulaiman
Publisher: Zed Books
ISBN: 9780862322380
Category : Arabic poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 260
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Author: Lana Younis
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Arabic fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 224
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Author: Ghareeb Iskander
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 0755607252
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 193
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This is the first study to examine the Arabic translations of a number of major modern poems in the English language, in particular T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land and Walt Whitman's Song of Myself. With case studies dedicated to the Arab translators who were themselves modernist poets, including Badr Shakir al-Sayyab and Saadi Yusuf, the author brings a reading of the translations as literary works in their own right. Revealing why the Arab modernists were drawn to these poems through situational context, Ghareeb Iskander shows that the influence exerted by the English originals stems from the creative manner in which the Arab poet-translators converted them into their own language.
Author: Shmuel Moreh
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9789004083592
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 196
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