Publication Date
2023
Publication Place
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Brill
Subject
Abū al-ʻAlāʼ al-Maʻarrī, 973-1057. Saqṭ al-zand., Abū al-ʻAlāʼ al-Maʻarrī, 973-1057. Luzūmīyāt., Poetics.
Type
Book
Language
Arabic
Digital
No
Manuscript
No
Physical Dimensions
1 online resource
Library
University College Dublin Library
Library Asset ID
9004499288, 9789004499287 (electronic bk.), 9789004499270 (hardback ; acid-free paper)
Record ID
b3353471
Library Location
In collection: Brill Open E-Book Collection
Date
2023
Sample Text
"In The Cooing of the Dove and the Cawing of the Crow Suzanne Pinckney Stetkevych offers original translations, close readings, and new interpretations of selected poems from the two contrasting diwans of the blind Late Abbasid master-poet, Abu al-Ala al-Ma arri (d. 449 H./1057 C.E.). The first is Saqt al-Zand (Sparks of the Flint), the highly esteemed collection of qasidah poetry of his youth, which he later disavowed. The second is Luzum Ma La Yalzam (Requiring What Is Not Required), the programmatic double-rhymed collection from his later period of withdrawal and seclusion. She argues that the contrasting 'poetics of engagement' and 'poetics of disengagement' of the two diwans reflect the transition from High Classical to Post Classical aesthetics"-- Provided by publisher
Erişim
Open Access.
Bibliyografya
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Seri
Brill Studies in Middle Eastern Literatures Ser., Brill studies in Middle Eastern literatures.
