Reorientations / Arabic and Persian Poetry

Name: Reorientations / Arabic and Persian Poetry
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ISBN: 9780253354938

ISBN-10: 0253354935

ISBN-13: 9780253354938

Edition: 1994

Authors: Suzanne Pinckney Stetkevych, Jaroslav Pinckney Stetkevych

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Book details

List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 1994
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Publication date: 3/22/1994
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 284
Size: 7.72" wide x 9.45" long x 0.87" tall
Weight: 1.496
Language: English



Preface



Pre-Islamic Panegyric and the Poetics of Redemption: Mufaddaliyah 119 of Alqamah and Banat Suad of Kab ibn Zuhayr




Toward an Arabic Elegiac Lexicon: The Seven Words of the Nasib




Guises of the Ghul: Dissembling Simile and Semantic Overflow in the Classical Arabic Nasib




"No Solace for the Heart": The Motif of the Departing Women in the Pre-Islamic Battle Ode




The Earliest Demon Lover: The Tayf al-Khayal in al-Mufaddaliyat




"Tangled Words": Toward a Stylistics of Arabic Mystical Verse




The Rise and Fall of a Persian Refrain: The Radif "Atash u Ab"




"The Allusive Field of Drunkenness": Three Safavid-Moghul Responses to a Lyric by Baba Fighani



Notes on the Contributors


Index