Metapoesis in the Arabic tradition
Subtitle: from modernists to muḥdathūn
By: by Huda J. Fakhreddine
Series: Brill studies in Middle Eastern literatures -- 36
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9789004294561; 9789004294578
Subjects: Arabic poetry; History and criticism; Free verse
Notes: Originally presented as the author's dissertation (doctoral)--Indiana University, 2011.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introducing metapoesis in Arabic poetry; title: Arabic poetry in the twentieth century; title: The free verse movement: a metapoetic project; title: The second generation: metapoesis in progress; title: Metapoesis in the Abbasid age; title: Audience, critics, and poetic debates; title: Abbasid poets and reflections on poetry; title: The abodes are not the abodes: the Abbasid meta-nasib; title: The elegiac prelude: evoking voice in the qasidah; title: Abu Nuwas: toying with the atlal motif; title: Abu Tammam's elegiac preludes: abstraction and change; title: The freeing of the atlal motifs: after Abu Tammam; title: Crossing line after line: the Abbasid poetic rahil; title: Abu Tammam herds "virgin meanings"; title: Ibn al-Rumi journeys "line after line"; title: A poem about a poem about a poem: two poets and a patron; title: Al-Buhturi and 'Ubaydallah b. Tahir: a failed exachange; title: A poem about a poem about a poem; title: Poems to a friend: Ibn al-Rumi responds; title: Conclusion.