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Sound and sense in classical Arabic poetry /
An early 10th-century Arabic critic defined poetry formally as "metrical, rhymed, meaningful speech". There are numerous studies of classical Arabic poetry, both pre-modern and modern, that deal with the themes and motifs of poems. Many of these pay scant attention to the formal aspects th...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Wiesbaden :
Harrassowitz Verlag,
2013.
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| Colección: | Arabische Studien ;
10. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Table of Contents; Preface; Abbreviations and Symbols; Transliteration; Some Terms; Body; I. INTRODUCTION; 1. Sounds and Senses; 2. Poetry; 3. The Sound of Classical Arabic Verse: the Known and the Unknown; II. METRE; 1. Arabic Metre; 2. The Suitability of Arabic Prosody; 3. Length or Weight; 4. Asymmetry as an Essential Part of Arabic Poetry; 5. Choosing a Metre; 6. The Irrelevance of the Foot; 7. The Relevance of the Hemistich and the Caesura; 8. Some Metrical Statistics; 9. From Theory to Rare Practice: Three Metres; 10. Long and Short Measure.
- 11. Extremely Short Measure12. The Beat of the Clapper: An Oddity of Classical Arabic Versification .; 13. Further Metrical Experiments; 14. Degrees of Regularity and Irregularity; 15. Truly Unmetrical Verse; 16. Musical Rhythm and Poetical Metre; 17. Using a Metre; III. RHYME; 1. To Rhyme or Not to Rhyme; 2. Rhyme in Arabic Verse; 3. Rhyme and Metre; 4. Choosing a Rhyme; 5. Monorhyme and Monotony; 6. Enjambment; 7. Anticipating the Rhyme-Word ; 8. Choosing a Rhyme, continued: Feminine Rhyme; 9. Jarring Sounds, 1: The Ugly Rhyme-Letter /kh/ and its Ugly Sisters.