Brains Confounded by the Ode of Abū Shādūf Expounded, with Risible Rhymes : Volume Two / Volume two / Volume two /

"Witty, bawdy, and vicious, Yūsuf al-Shirbīnī's 'Brains Confounded' pits the "coarse" rural masses against the "refined" urban population. In Volume One (ISBN 9781479840212), al-Shirbīnī describes the three rural "types"-peasant cultivator, vill...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Shirbīnī, Yūsuf ibn Muḥammad, active 1665-1687 (Autor)
Otros Autores: Davies, Humphrey T. (Humphrey Taman) (Editor , Traductor), Sanhūrī, Muḥammad bin Maḥfūẓ, active 1648
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Arabic
Publicado: New York : New York University Press, [2019]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Villages.
Social problems in literature.
Satire, Arabic.
Rural conditions.
Arabic literature.
Arabic literature > Egypt > Early works to 1800.
Satire, Arabic > Egypt > Early works to 1800.
Social problems in literature > Early works to 1800.
Villages > Egypt > Early works to 1800.
Egypt.
Egypt > Rural conditions > Early works to 1800.
Early works.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario:"Witty, bawdy, and vicious, Yūsuf al-Shirbīnī's 'Brains Confounded' pits the "coarse" rural masses against the "refined" urban population. In Volume One (ISBN 9781479840212), al-Shirbīnī describes the three rural "types"-peasant cultivator, village man-of-religion, and rural dervish-offering anecdotes testifying to the ignorance, dirtiness, and criminality of each. In Volume Two, he presents a hilarious parody of the verse-and-commentary genre so beloved by scholars of his day, with a 47-line poem supposedly written by a peasant named Abū Shādūf, who charts the rise and fall of his fortunes. Wielding the scholarly tools of elite literature, al-Shirbīnī responds to the poem with derision and ridicule, dotting his satire with digressions into love, food, and flatulence. Volume Two of 'Brains Confounded' is followed by 'Risible Rhymes', a concise text that includes a comic disquisition on "rural" verse, mocking the pretensions of uneducated poets from Egypt's countryside. 'Risible Rhymes' also examines various kinds of puzzle poems, which were another popular genre of the day, and presents a debate between scholars over a line of verse by the tenth-century poet al-Mutanabbī. Together, 'Brains Confounded' and 'Risible Rhymes' offer intriguing insight into the intellectual concerns of Ottoman Egypt, showcasing the intense preoccupation with wordplay, grammar, and stylistics and shedding light on the literature of the era"--
Descripción Física:1 online resource.
ISBN:9781479846832

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