Metapoesis in the Arabic tradition : : from modernists to muḥdathun / / by Huda J. Fakhreddine.

• Superior document: Brill Studies in Middle Eastern Literatures, Volume 36
• VerfasserIn: Fakhreddine, Huda J.,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, Massachusetts : : Brill,, 2015.; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: Brill studies in Middle Eastern literatures ; Volume 36.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (232 p.)
• Notes: Originally presented as the author's dissertation (doctoral)--Indiana University, 2011.

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.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- 1 Introducing Metapoesis in Arabic Poetry -- 2 Metapoesis in the Abbasid Age -- 3 The Abodes are Not the Abodes: The Abbasid Meta-Nasīb -- 4 Crossing Line after Line: The Abbasid Poetic Raḥīl -- 5 A Poem about a Poem about a Poem: Two Poets and a Patron -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.