Silencing the sea

Silencing the sea: secular rhythms in Palestinian poetry

by Furani, Khaled

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Silencing the Sea follows Palestinian poets' debates about their craft as they traverse multiple and competing realities of secularism and religion, expulsion and occupation, art, politics, immortality, death, fame, and obscurity. Khaled Furani takes his reader down ancient roads and across military checkpoints to join the poets' worlds and engage with the rhythms of their lifelong journeys in Islamic and Arabic history, language, and verse. This excursion offers newfound understandings of how …

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  • Full title :Silencing the sea : secular rhythms in Palestinian poetry / Khaled Furani.

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Silencing the Sea follows Palestinian poets' debates about their craft as they traverse multiple and competing realities of secularism and religion, expulsion and occupation, art, politics, immortality, death, fame, and obscurity. Khaled Furani takes his reader down ancient roads and across military checkpoints to join the poets' worlds and engage with the rhythms of their lifelong journeys in Islamic and Arabic history, language, and verse. This excursion offers newfound understandings of how today's secular age goes far beyond doctrine, to inhabit our very senses, imbuing all that we see, he.

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:[2012], ©2012.

Publication Statements

  • Publisher(s):Stanford University Press
  • Place of Publication:Stanford, California
  • Language:eng
  • Publication Date:[2012], ©2012.

The Physical Object

  • Description:x, 298 pages : : illustrations ; : 24 cm

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9780804776462, 0804776466
  • oclc:ocn830051362
  • LC Classification:PJ8190.2
  • Dewey Decimal:892.7100995694

Table of Contents

Secular bewilderment -- Rhythms and rulers -- The land of the poem -- Memory for beginnings -- Metrical discipline and mastery -- Poets for "the people" -- Enough "screaming" -- Rhythmical freedom -- Modern poets and "conservative" people -- Redeeming prose -- When meter melts -- The laity outside poetry's temple -- Conclusions : secular prayers.

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Subjects

18.74 modern Arabic literature 1900-talet Arabic poetry Arabic poetry -- History and criticism … Arabic poetry -- History and criticism.… Arabic poetry -- Palestinian Arab autho… Arabisk poesi -- historia Criticism, interpretation, etc Literature -- Philosophy Middle East -- Palestine Palestina Palestinians Poésie arabe -- Histoire et critique. -… Poésie palestinienne -- Histoire et cri… Poetics Poetik Poétique Secularism in literature Sekularisering i litteraturen

Writers

Furani, Khaled

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