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

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This groundbreaking book uses the conceptual world of classical Arabic poetics ('ilm al-balagha) to 'decolonize the overwhelming, illogical divorce between linguistic and literary studies' of ancient Egyptian. I was interested in literary theory from when I was an undergraduate studying Comparative Literature. The series Studies in Arabic Literature, Supplements to the Journal of Arabic Litrature, founded in 1971, is concerned with all kinds of literary expression in Arabic, including the oral and vernacular traditions, of both the modern and the classical periods. The rise of the old school of criticism, mainly through badīʿ criticism, invoked comparisons between the two types of poetry, theorizing the beauty of poetry in terms of truthfulness and naturalness or falsehood and artifice (30-42). Stephen Quirke is professor of Egyptology at the Institute of Archaeology, University College London.

In The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, edited by Roland Greene and Stephen Cushman, 62-64. By bidding on, or purchasing this item, you are agreeing to us sharing your name and address details with that 3rd party supplier to allow us to fulfil our contractual obligations to you. However, the Arab cultural project has constantly been led by the religious branch of its culture, and therefore, the creative and linguistic processes have always moved within this frame. Meltzer, Pacifica Graduate Institute {"}This groundbreaking book uses the conceptual world of classical Arabic poetics ('ilm al-balagha) to 'decolonize the overwhelming, illogical divorce between linguistic and literary studies' of ancient Egyptian.

In all cases, many human experiences induce emotion, and the most human of activities, those cognitive in nature, are not exempt. The chapter also deals with the general reasons behind the closure of both phases of the magazine and suggests the real causes that twice forced al-Khāl to give up his dream. It certainly deserves to be on every Egyptologist’s bookshelf, and we will benefit from its insights.

Second, apart from theory there is a great deal of scholastic taxonomy of different rhetorical figures. Fayza Haikal, the American University in Cairo {"}Hany Rashwan takes a significant step beyond existing scholarly traditions, revealing typological similarities between ancient Egyptian and Arabic poetics. A groundbreaking study of the relationship between ancient Egyptian literary devices and their Arabic counterparts. but the Routledge Encyclopedia of Arabic Literature contains a wealth of accurate and concise information on all the major figures, movements, and techniques in the classical tradition (as well as reference to modern works up to its time of publishing in 1998). Mimesis also involves a cognitive process of discovery, but in a poetic syllogism, unlike a demonstrative one, the premises are ‘make-believe,’ meaning they are assumed to be true to evoke wonder by making an unexpected discovery through poetic language (81).

Text editions are as a rule accompanied by a translation on facing pages; both text editions and translations should include comprehensive, critical introductions which give a full and proper appreciation of the text or texts in question. The magazine’s editors sought to generate a profound change in the role and form of Arabic poetry as a tool to support a significant leap forward in the Arab thinking and writing. Alternatively (and much less ambitiously) I hope to provide a handy guide for those scholars of the history of literary criticism who are already, for some reason, looking for Arabic ideas. For librarians and administrators, your personal account also provides access to institutional account management.

Through this, hair is explored as a semiotic code that inheres the tension between grammar and ungrammaticality, reason and madness, imitation and originality in literary works, and relate this tension to the inexorable connection between poetry and madness in the Arabic literary imaginary. Such an analysis enables a view of the development of modern Arabic literature, especially the various aspects of poetry through its clashes with the prevailing fundamentalist trend. Anyone interested in understanding how poetry, eloquent speech, and the Quran evoke wonder should read this book. In doing so he has revealed new layers of meaning that are essential for an adequate understanding of the literary merit of the ancient texts.Chapter 4 deals with the remaining figures of bayan: figurative language ( majāz), metaphor ( istiʿārah), and metonymy ( kināyah). The literature of the modern, post-classical, period is no less sophisticated, being a vibrant and flourishing expression of the continued Arabic tradition. And while the rational meanings of poetry can produce wonder, Jurjānī’s watershed notion of takhyīl, which Harb translates as ‘make-believe,’ truly shows why poetry is tied to wonder. All three disciplines, ʿilm al-maʿānī, ʿilm al-bayān, and ʿilm al-badīʿ, become the main divisions of ʿilm al-balāghah, or Arabic Poetics, which by now, Harb has demonstrated all point to an underlying aesthetic of wonder.