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Warfare and poetry in the Middle East /
Part of the rich legacy of the Middle East is a poetic record stretching back five millennia. This unparalleled repository of knowledge - across different languages, cultures and religions - allows us to examine continuity and change in human expression from the beginnings of writing to the present...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London ; New York : New York :
I.B. Tauris ; Distributed in the United States and Canada exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan,
2013.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Contributors; Preface; Introduction; 1. 'O City Set Up Thy Lament': Poetic Responses to the Trauma of War; 2. The Poem of Erra and Ishum: A Babylonian Poet's View of War; 3. Poetry and War among the Hittites; 4. Warfare in ancient Egyptian Poetry; 5. Poetry and the Early Islamic Historical Tradition: Poetry and Narratives of the Battle of Siffin; 6. Pity and Defiance in the Poetry of the Siege of Baghdad (197/813); 7. Silenced Cultural Encounters in Poetry of War; 8. Courage and Eloquence: 'Antar, the Warrior-Poet of the siyar.
- 9. 'If only al-Barraq could see ... ': Violence and Voyeurism in an Early Modern Reformulation of the Pre-Islamic Call to Arms10. 'I am a civil war': The Poetry of Haim Gouri; 11. Humanism, Nationalism and Violence in Mahmoud Darwish's Poetry; Index.