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Risible Rhymes /

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 ri...

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Auteur principal: Sanhūrī, Muḥammad bin Maḥfūẓ, active 1648 (Auteur)
Autres auteurs: Davies, Humphrey T. (Humphrey Taman) (Éditeur intellectuel, Traducteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Arabic
Publié: New York : New York University Press, 2016.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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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.
Description matérielle:1 online resource (128 pages).
ISBN:9781479890781