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The Arabic prose poem : poetic theory and practice /
The Arabic prose poem gave rise to a profound, contentious and continuing debate about Arabic poetry: its definition, its limits and its relation to its readers. Huda J. Fakhreddine examines the history of the prose poem, its claims of autonomy and distance from its socio-political context, and the...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Edinburgh :
Edinburgh University Press,
[2021]
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| Colección: | Edinburgh studies in modern Arabic literature.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | The Arabic prose poem gave rise to a profound, contentious and continuing debate about Arabic poetry: its definition, its limits and its relation to its readers. Huda J. Fakhreddine examines the history of the prose poem, its claims of autonomy and distance from its socio-political context, and the anxiety and scandal it generated. When the modernist movement in Arabic poetry was launched in the 1940s, it threatened to blur the distinctions between poetry and everything else. The Arabic prose poem is probably the most subversive and extreme manifestation of this blurring. It is often described as an oxymoron, a non-genre, an anti-genre, a miracle and even a conspiracy"-- |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xi, 275 pages). |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781474474986 1474474985 9781474474993 1474474993 1474495494 9781474495493 |