Arabic poetry [electronic resource] : trajectories of modernity and tradition / Muhsin J. al-Musawi.
Series: Routledge studies in Middle Eastern literatures ; 9.Publication details: New York : Routledge, 2006.Description: xxi, 327 pISBN:- 9780203965412
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Poetic trajectories : critical introduction -- 2. The tradition-modernity nexus in Arabic poetics -- 3. Poetic strategies : thresholds for conformity and dissent -- 4. Poetic dialogization : ancestors in the text : figures and figurations -- 5. Dedications as poetic intersections -- 6. Envisioning exile : past anchors and problematic encounters -- 7. The edge of recognition and rejection : why T. S. Eliot? -- 8. Conclusion : deviational and reversal poetics : dissent, not allegiance.
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Mode of access: World Wide Web.