
- 320 pages
- English
- PDF
- Available on iOS & Android
The Magazine Shir and the Poetics of Modern Arabic Poetry
About this book
The book comprehensively examines the Sh'ir magazine published in Beirut (1957-1964; 1967-1969). 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. The book traces the mechanism of development of the magazine's content and the thinking of its main editors, through in-depth textual analysis of the three main branches of the magazine's content: translated poetry, original Arabic poetry, and articles of literary criticism. Each of these branches is accompanied by a complete appendix of relevant items. The analysis revals the significant role that Sh'ir played in enabling a new kind of secular and personal poetics, including that of prose-poetry and vision poems.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Copyright information
- Note on Transliteration
- Acknowledgments
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1 Majallat Shi‘r: The Dynamics of Development
- 2 Translation as a Medium for Cultural Change: Seeking Internationality
- 3 Majallat Shi‘r and Arab Poetics: Towards a Poem of Revelation (Kashf) and Vision (Ru’yā)
- 4 Shi‘r and the Critical Pursuit: Revealing the Poem of Revelation
- Epilogue: Shi‘r Soars to the Sīmūrg
- Appendixes
- Bibliography
- Index