Arabic Poetics: Aesthetic Experience in Classical Arabic Literature (Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization)

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Studies in the series can be literary-historical, analytical or comparative in nature, and can treat of individual works, authors and genres as well as literary traditions in a wider context. His outstanding study also introduces a much-needed discussion about the 'visual literariness' of the hieroglyphic writing in comparison with our alphabetic scripts.

Analysing the Qur’an, which is known for confronting the poetry of the time, this book reveals that "post Qur’anic" literature came to be defined against it. abstract = "A groundbreaking study of the relationship between ancient Egyptian literary devices and their Arabic counterparts. My hope is that readers of poetry and literary criticism will be moved to consider the resources available in Arabic when they deal with a question such as "how does a metaphor work? Rather, it is an assumption I argue lies behind the various explanations they give for poetic beauty.In its constant dynamism, it clashes with the stability that emanates from symbols of the past that try to maintain the position of tribal postulates.

The magazine’s interactions apply to both levels as I relate to both its historical impact on Arabic literature during its publication and following its closure, and with the degree of its effectiveness in outlining the characteristics of modern Arabic poetics following its popularity in the Arabic literary arena. By bidding on, or purchasing this item, you are agreeing to us sharing your name and address details with that 3rd party supplier to allow us to fulfil our contractual obligations to you. Through this, hair is explored as a semiotic code that inheres the tension between grammar and ungrammaticality, reason and madness, imitation and originality in literary works, and relate this tension to the inexorable connection between poetry and madness in the Arabic literary imaginary. And while the rational meanings of poetry can produce wonder, Jurjānī’s watershed notion of takhyīl, which Harb translates as ‘make-believe,’ truly shows why poetry is tied to wonder. From my conversations with colleagues outside Arabic, Abu Deeb does not seem to have succeeded (though this should not be taken as criticism of his analyses).With its comprehensive overview of the Arabic poetry, translated poetry, and critical articles published in Majallat Shi‘r, this book defines the dimensions of the literary direction the magazine adopted and the identity of the sources from which it drew the foundations of its modernism and creative facets. b14972 Language English Publication date 2019 (November) Keywords personal poetry prose poetry literary criticism translated poetry Arabic culture vision poem Published Berlin, Bern, Bruxelles, New York, Oxford, Warszawa, Wien, 2019. While the theological discussions of the inimitably of the Quran which argue that the Quran’s miraculous nature is tied to the eloquence of its composition precede Jurjānī, Harb’s focus on Jurjānī and his successors allows her to show the convergence of wonder as an aesthetic theory from multiple vantages, since compositional eloquence also arises from deducing unapparent, and at times unexpected, meanings about the context of speech additional to its original meaning based on the syntactical structure, the discovery of which instills wonder (217-33). It certainly deserves to be on every Egyptologist’s bookshelf, and we will benefit from its insights. This allows us to understand the literary relations that led to the development of the Arab cultural movement over a long period of time – from the period of the \magazine’s publication and its subsequent influence.