Arabic Poetics: Aesthetic Experience in Classical Arabic Literature (Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization)

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Here you will find options to view and activate subscriptions, manage institutional settings and access options, access usage statistics, and more. A century ago, pioneering Egyptian Egyptologist Ahmad Kamal Pasha gained little traction for his plea to compare ancient Egyptian with Arabic, a kindred language from within the same phylum (now known as Afro-Asiatic). The second is diachronic, covering the literary developments that took place during different periods.

Chapter 4 deals with the remaining figures of bayan: figurative language ( majāz), metaphor ( istiʿārah), and metonymy ( kināyah).

I will be asking my colleagues in Arabic studies to provide criticism and addition, and so at the time of posting (late March 2013) the list should be considered a draft (as of August 2015 I am making additions in the comments section below). This post is an iterative and discursive bibliography, intended to provide non-specialists with an introduction and orientation to over a millenium of sustained engagement with poetry by an intellectual culture that tended towards theory and had a predeliction for language-centered enquiry. Thus, the constitution and interpretation of Arabic literature imposed itself as a particular exegesis of the sacred Text. Even as her book offers an illuminating account of such questions as poetic reasoning, the varieties of literary figures, and the status of the Qur'an in Arabic culture, it advances the new and stimulating thesis, arguing that wonder, in Arabic poetics, becomes implicitly and explicitly 'the defining aesthetic experience of poetic language'. I begin the chapter by analyzing the first issue of the magazine as it represents the literary and cultural direction the magazine intended to take.

I analyze the general poetic terms that stem from the first issue of the magazine based on my textual analysis of its poems and articles. Make-believe meanings “[trick] the listener into accepting false premises as true” in the imagery they produce, relating unexpected meanings between two or more things in strange and unfamiliar ways (53). I point out the efforts to change the poetic concept from its superficial descriptive horizontality into a deep verticality concerned with the spiritual dimensions of Man. Studies in the series can be literary-historical, analytical or comparative in nature, and can treat of individual works, authors and genres as well as literary traditions in a wider context.Traditionally, this literature has been viewed through a philologist’s lens and has often been represented as ‘materialistic’ in the sense that its poetry lacked imagination. Shlomo Izre'el, Tel-Aviv University {"}By creatively re-reading ancient Egyptian texts through the lens of the classical Arabic poetic tradition Dr. In other words, it attempts to evaluate this alternative and examine its sources and its effects on the Arab literary arena by investigating all aspects of how Majallat Shi‘r undertook to promote and promulgate its project of linguistic and cultural modernism.