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Risible rhymes : or, The book to bring a smile to the lips of devotees of taste and proper style through the decoding of a sampling of the verse of the rural rank and file /
Written in mid-17th centuryEgypt, Risible Rhymesis in part a short, comic disquisition on "rural" verse, mocking thepretensions and absurdities of uneducated poets from Egypt's countryside. The interestin the countryside as a cultural, social, economic, and religious locus inits own r...
| Cote: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés Arabic |
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New York :
New York University Press,
2016.
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| Collection: | Library of Arabic literature
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
| Résumé: | Written in mid-17th centuryEgypt, Risible Rhymesis in part a short, comic disquisition on "rural" verse, mocking thepretensions and absurdities of uneducated poets from Egypt's countryside. The interestin the countryside as a cultural, social, economic, and religious locus inits own right that is hinted at in this work may be unique in pre-twentieth-centuryArabic literature. As such, the work provides a companion piece to its slightlyyounger contemporary, Yusuf al-Shirbini's Brains Confounded by the Ode of AbuShaduf Expounded, which also takes examples of mock-rural poems andsubjects them to grammatical analysis. The overlap between the two texts mayindicate that they both emanate from a common corpus of pseudo-rural verse thatcirculated in Ottoman Egypt. Risible Rhymes also examines various kinds of puzzlepoems--another popular genre of the day--and presents a debate between scholarsover a line of verse by the tenth-century poet al-Mutanabbi. Taken as a whole, RisibleRhymes offers intriguing insight into the critical concerns of mid-OttomanEgypt, showcasing the intense preoccupation with wordplay, grammar, andstylistics that dominated discussions of poetry in al-Sanhuri's day andshedding light on the literature of this understudied era |
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| Description matérielle: | 1 online resource |
| Bibliographie: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781479890781 1479890782 9781479857524 1479857521 |