The Arabic Prose Poem : : Poetic Theory and Practice / / Huda J. Fakhreddine.

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• VerfasserIn: Fakhreddine, Huda J.,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Edinburgh Studies in Modern Arabic Literature : ESMAL
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (288 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Series Editor’s Foreword --; Note on Transliteration and Translation --; Acknowledgements --; Introduction: The Arabic Poem that Jumped the Fence --; 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 Wadiʿ Saʿadeh and the Third Generation of Prose Poets: An Arabic Poetics of Translation and Exophony --; Afterword --; Bibliography --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781474474986; 9783110754001; 9783110753776; 9783110754124; 9783110753899; 9783110780406
• DOI: 10.1515/9781474474986
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Huda J. Fakhreddine.

Examines one of the most controversial poetic forms in Arabic: the Arabic prose poemExamines the ‘new genre’ of the prose poem as a poetic practice and as a critical lens Adopts a case-study approach to a number of poets, including: Adonis, Muhammad al-Maghut, Salim Barakat, Mahmoud Darwish and Wadi‘ SaʿadehAdopts a comparative approach across time periods, genres, identity and cultural traditionsThe 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.