The poetics of anti-colonialism in the Arabic qaṣīdah:
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Main Author: Kadhim, Hussein N. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Leiden Brill 2004
Series:Brill studies in Middle Eastern literatures v. 29
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references (p. [265]-270) and index
"This book represents the most sustained investigation of the aesthetics of Anti-Colonialism in modern Arabic poetry. Through painstaking analyses of a selection of odes by four leading twentieth-century poets, Ahmad Shawqi, Ma'ruf al-Rusafi, Badr Shakir al-Sayyab and 'Abd al-Wahhab al-Bayati, the book chronicles the evolution of a distinct poetics that sought to maintain the integrity of the qasidah without circumventing its historical moment." "It will be of particular interest to scholars and students of Arabic literature, Islamic and Middle Eastern studies, Postcolonial studies, Comparative literature, and Cultural studies."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xii, 288 p.)
ISBN:1429407123
9004130306
9781429407120
9789004130302

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