Tradition and Modernity in Arabic Language and Literature

Name: Tradition and Modernity in Arabic Language and Literature
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ISBN: 9780700704118

ISBN-10: 0700704116

ISBN-13: 9780700704118

Edition: 1996

Authors: J. R. Smart

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This book covers a range of literary and linguistic subjects from pre-Islamic times to the 20th-century. This work arises from presentations at the Second Shaban Memorial Conference, Exeter, in 1994.

Book details

List price: $205.00
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 4/25/1996
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 360
Size: 5.75" wide x 9.00" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English



Preface



Romanticism and Modern Arabic Literature




Tradition as a Factor of Arabic Modernism: Darwish's Application of a Mask




Tradition and Modernity in Arabic Poetry: The Constant Challenge, the Perennial Assertion




Sundry Observations on the Fate of Poetry in the Early Islamic Period




Changing Technique in Modern Arabic Poetry: A Reflection of Changing Values




Literacy, Munificence and Legitimation of Power during the reign of the Party Kings in Muslim Spain




The Authenticity of the Poems ascribed to Umayya Ibn Abi al-Salt




The Hunt in the Arabic Qasidah: the Antecedents of the Tardiyyah




Abbasid Panegyric: The Politics and Poetics of Ceremony. Al-Mutanabbi's Id-poem to Sayf al-Dawlah




Najib al-Haddad's Essay on the Comparison of Arabic and European Poetry




Arabic Influences in the Literature of Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Britain




Tradition and Modernity in the Work of the Tunisian writer al-Mas adi




The Organizational Principles in Ibn Sallam's Tabaqat Fuhul al-Shu ara. A Reconsideration




On Rhyming Endings and Symmetric Phrases in al-Hamadhani's Maqamat




The Prose Literature of Pre-Islamic Arabia




Modernity in a Classical Arabic Adab Work, the Kitab al-Aghani




An Incomplete Egyptian Ballad on The 1956 War




Mysticism in Arabic Writing




Rescuing Arabic Rhetoric from Neglect: A Text-linguistic Approach




The Dispute of Coffee and Tea: A Debate-Poem from the Gulf




Some sociolinguistic concepts of style and stylistic variation in spoken Arabic - with reference to Nagib Mahfuz talking about his life




The Language of Ibn al-Mujawir's 7th/13th Century Guide to Arabia, Tarikh al-Mustabsir