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Author Fakhreddine, Huda J., author.

Title Metapoesis in the Arabic tradition : from modernists to muḥdathūn / by Huda J. Fakhreddine.

Publication Info. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2015]
©2015

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Description 1 online resource (222 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
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Series Brill studies in Middle Eastern literatures ; 36
Brill studies in Middle Eastern literatures ; 36.
Note Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral)--Indiana University, 2011.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introducing metapoesis in Arabic poetry -- Arabic poetry in the twentieth century -- The free verse movement: a metapoetic project -- The second generation: metapoesis in progress -- Metapoesis in the Abbasid age -- Audience, critics, and poetic debates -- Abbasid poets and reflections on poetry -- The abodes are not the abodes: the Abbasid meta-nasib -- The elegiac prelude: evoking voice in the qasidah -- Abu Nuwas: toying with the atlal motif -- Abu Tammam's elegiac preludes: abstraction and change -- The freeing of the atlal motifs: after Abu Tammam -- Crossing line after line: the Abbasid poetic rahil -- Abu Tammam herds "virgin meanings" -- Ibn al-Rumi journeys "line after line" -- A poem about a poem about a poem: two poets and a patron -- Al-Buhturi and 'Ubaydallah b. Tahir: a failed exachange -- A poem about a poem about a poem -- Poems to a friend: Ibn al-Rumi responds -- Conclusion.
Summary Metapoesis in the Arabic Tradition expands the study of metapoetry to include the modernizing work of the first generation of Abbasid poets (8th and 9th century).
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Subject Arabic poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
Arabic poetry.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Free verse -- History and criticism.
Free verse.
Arabic poetry -- 750-1258 -- History and criticism.
Chronological Term 750-1258
750-1999
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Other Form: Print version: Fakhreddine, Huda J. Metapoesis in the Arabic tradition 9789004294561 (DLC) 2015020189 (OCoLC)904036809
ISBN 9789004294578 (electronic book)
9004294570 (electronic book)
9789004294561 (hardback alkaline paper)
9004294562 (hardback alkaline paper)