Sound and sense in classical Arabic poetry

Sound and sense in classical Arabic poetry

by Gelder, G. J. H. van

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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 that distinguish Arabic poetry from prose: metre, rhyme, and other sound patterns. Likewise, there are many treatises and monographs on these formal aspects, but often they are more concerned with theory than wi…

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  • Full title :Sound and sense in classical Arabic poetry / Geert Jan van Gelder.

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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 that distinguish Arabic poetry from prose: metre, rhyme, and other sound patterns. Likewise, there are many treatises and monographs on these formal aspects, but often they are more concerned with theory than with actual poetic practice, and they are rarely interested in the relationships between sounds and mea.

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:©2014

Publication Statements

  • Publisher(s):Harrassowitz
  • Place of Publication:Wiesbaden
  • Language:eng
  • Publication Date:©2014

The Physical Object

  • Description:1 online resource (416 pages)

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9783447191203, 3447191201
  • oclc:ocn903973369
  • LC Classification:PJ7543
  • Dewey Decimal:892.7109

Table of Contents

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 -- 10. Jarring Sounds, 2: The Ugliest Arabic Words and Tongue-Twisters -- 11. Rhyming Irregularities -- 12. U…

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Subjects

Arabe (Langue) -- Métrique et rythmique Arabic language -- Metrics and rhythmics Arabic poetry Arabic poetry -- History and criticism.… Arabic poetry -- History and criticism.… Arabic poetry -- History and criticism.… Arabisch Criticism, interpretation, etc Electronic books Gedichten Klang Klassisches Arabisch Literature -- Philosophy Lyrik Poésie arabe -- Histoire et critique. -… Poésie arabe -- Histoire et critique. -… Poésie arabe -- Histoire et critique. -… Poetics Poétique To 1258

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Gelder, G. J. H. van

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