Metapoesis in the Arabic Tradition

From Modernists to Muḥdathūn
Erscheinungsjahr 2015
ISBN: 978-90-04-29456-1
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 36, 222 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 499 g

Reihe: Brill Studies in Middle Eastern Literatures

In Metapoesis in the Arabic Tradition Huda J. Fakhreddine expands the study of metapoesis to include the Abbasid age in Arabic literature. Through this lens that is often used to study modernist poetry of the 20th and the 21st century, this book detects and examines a meta-poetic tendency and a self-reflexive attitude in the poetry of the first century of Abbasid poets. What and why is poetry? are questions the Abbasid poets asked themselves with the same persistence and urgency their modern successor did. This approach to the poetry of the Abbasid age serves to refresh our sense of what is “modernist” or “poetically new” and detach it from chronology.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Fakhreddine, Huda J

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islam: Literatur & Kunst
• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Geschichte des Islam Geschichte des Islam: 7. - 14. Jahrhundert
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturen sonstiger Sprachräume Literatur des Nahen Ostens & Nordafrikas
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturtheorie: Poetik und Literaturästhetik

Über Autor(innen)

Huda J. Fakhreddine is Assistant Professor of Arabic Literature at the University of Pennsylvania. A graduate of the American University of Beirut (2004), she received her Ph.D. (2011) from Indiana University, Bloomington.