The Poetics of Anti-Colonialism in the Arabic Qaṣīdah (Brill Studies in Middle Eastern Literatures, 29)
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Book info: The Poetics of Anti-Colonialism in the Arabic Qaṣīdah (Brill Studies in Middle Eastern Literatures, 29) (Hardcover, 304 pages) – Brill, 2004. Language: English. Representing the most sustained investigation of the aesthetics of Anti-Colonialism in modern Arabic poetry, this book chronicles the evolution of a distinct poetics that sought...
Book info: The Poetics of Anti-Colonialism in the Arabic Qaṣīdah (Brill Studies in Middle Eastern Literatures, 29) (Hardcover, 304 pages) – Brill, 2004. Language: English.
Representing the most sustained investigation of the aesthetics of Anti-Colonialism in modern Arabic poetry, this book chronicles the evolution of a distinct poetics that sought to maintain the integrity of the qaṣīdah without circumventing its historical moment. It painstakingly analyses a selection of odes by four leading twentieth-century poets, Aḥmad Shawqī, Maʿrūf al-Ruṣāfī, Badr Shākir al-Sayyāb and ʿAbd al-Wahhāb al-Bayātī. 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.