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City of beginnings : poetic modernism in Beirut /

How poetic modernism shaped Arabic intellectual debates in the twentieth century and beyondCity of Beginnings is an exploration of modernism in Arabic poetry, a movement that emerged in Beirut during the 1950s and became the most influential and controversial Arabic literary development of the twent...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Creswell, Robyn (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2019]
Colección:Translation/transnation.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction. Modernism in Translation
  • Chapter 1. Lebanon and Late Modernism
  • Chapter 2. The Genealogy of Arabic Modernism
  • Chapter 3. Figuration and Disfiguration in The Songs of Mihyar the Damascene
  • Chapter 4. The Origins of the Arabic Prose Poem
  • Chapter 5. The Countercanon: Adonis's Anthology of Arabic Poetry
  • Chapter 6. "He Sang New Sorrow": Adonis and the Modernist Elegy
  • Epilogue. Tehran 1979-Damascus 2011
  • Notes
  • Selected Bibliography
  • Index
  • Translation / Transnation