Arabic Prose Poem
Poetic Theory and Practice
1st Edition
Published on 2. March 2021
288 pages
978-1-4744-7498-6 (ISBN)
Description
Huda J. Fakhreddine explores the 'new genre' of the Arabic prose poem as a poetic practice and a critical lens. This poetic form gave rise to a profound, contentious and continuing debate about Arabic poetry: its definition, its limits and its relation to its readers. 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.
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Content
- Intro
- The Arabic Prose Poem
- Copyright
- 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
- Wadi? Sa?adeh and the Third Generation of Prose Poets: An Arabic Poetics of Translation and Exophony
- Afterword
- Bibliography
- Index
