City of Beginnings : : Poetic Modernism in Beirut / / Robyn Creswell.
How poetic modernism shaped Arabic intellectual debates in the twentieth century and beyondCity of Beginnings is an exploration of modernism in Arabic poetry, a movement that emerged in Beirut during the 1950s and became the most influential and controversial Arabic literary development of the twent...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2019] ©2019 |
| Year of Publication: | 2019 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Translation/Transnation ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (272 p.) :; 10 b/w illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction. Modernism in Translation
- Chapter 1. Lebanon and Late Modernism
- Chapter 2. The Genealogy of Arabic Modernism
- Chapter 3. Figuration and Disfiguration in The Songs of Mihyar the Damascene
- Chapter 4. The Origins of the Arabic Prose Poem
- Chapter 5. The Countercanon: Adonis’s Anthology of Arabic Poetry
- Chapter 6. “He Sang New Sorrow”: Adonis and the Modernist Elegy
- Epilogue. Tehran 1979–Damascus 2011
- Notes
- Selected Bibliography
- Index
- Translation / Transnation