The Arabic prose poem

The Arabic prose poem: poetic theory and practice

by Fakhreddine, Huda J.

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The Arabic prose poem gave rise to a profound, contentious and continuing debate about Arabic poetry: its definition, its limits and its relation to its readers. Huda J. Fakhreddine examines the history of the prose poem, its claims of autonomy and distance from its socio-political context, and the anxiety and scandal it generated. When the modernist movement in Arabic poetry was launched in the 1940s, it threatened to blur the distinctions between poetry and everything else. The Arabic prose p…

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  • Full title :The Arabic prose poem : poetic theory and practice / Huda J. Fakhreddine.

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The Arabic prose poem gave rise to a profound, contentious and continuing debate about Arabic poetry: its definition, its limits and its relation to its readers. Huda J. Fakhreddine examines the history of the prose poem, its claims of autonomy and distance from its socio-political context, and the anxiety and scandal it generated. When the modernist movement in Arabic poetry was launched in the 1940s, it threatened to blur the distinctions between poetry and everything else. The Arabic prose poem is probably the most subversive and extreme manifestation of this blurring. It is often described as an oxymoron, a non-genre, an anti-genre, a miracle and even a conspiracy"--

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:©2021

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  • Description:1 online resource (xi, 275 pages).

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9781474474986, 1474474985, 9781474474993, 1474474993
  • oclc:on1245845728
  • LC Classification:PJ7541
  • Dewey Decimal:892.7109

Table of Contents

Introduction -- 1. Precursors, terms, and manifestos between theory and practice -- 2. The prose poem and the Arabic tradition -- 3. Adonis : writing where the world begins and begins again -- 4. Muhammad al-Maghut and poetic detachment -- 5. Mahmoud Darwish as middleman -- 6. Salim Barakat : poetry as linguistic conquest -- 7. Wadiʻ Saʻadeh and the third generation of prose poets -- Afterword.

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Subjects

Arabic poetry Arabic poetry -- History and criticism Criticism, interpretation, etc Poésie arabe -- Histoire et critique

Writers

Fakhreddine, Huda J.

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