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Table of Contents: Dedication Acknowledgements Copyright Acknowledgements A Note on Translation and Transliteration Preface 1. Poetic Trajectories: Introduction A. Arabic Poetry in Context: I. Oracular Poetics II. Continuities and Discontinuities III. The Revivalists IV. Modernism and secular Ideology V. Gibr?n?s Innovation VI. The Tamm?z? Movement and the Modernity/Tradition Issue VII. Fadw? T?q?n?s Autobiographical Itinerary: from Tradition to Modernism VIII. Muúammad Benn?s? Antecedent Authority B. The Modernist Impulse: I. Questioning the Nationalist Rhetoric II. Identity III. The Negotiated Poetic Space IV. Non-Conformist Poetics 2. The Tradition/ Modernity Nexus in Arabic Poetics I. A Dynamic Tradition II. Masks III. The Surviving Past IV. Recollections V. Why Precursors VI. Translation as a Modernist Engagement VII. Configurational Sites: Classical and Modern VIII. Undermining Poetics IX. Which Tradition in the Rome Conference? X. Dialectics of Tradition and Modernity XI. Ad?n?s: The Challenge of Tradition XII. Modernity as a Constant XIII. Al-Bay?t??s Tradition XIV. Poetic Career: êal?ú cAbd al-êab?r 3. Poetic Strategies: Thresholds for Conformity and Dissent I. The Neo-Classical Qas?dah: Al-Jaw?hir? II. Addressing the Strong Precursor III. Approaching the Glorious Legacy: Three Directions IV. cAbd al-êab?r and the Emulation of Independence V. Al-Bay?t??s Alien and Rebellious Precursors VI. Recreating the Forebear VII. Ad?n?s? Objectifications of Forebears VIII. Trajectories of Modernity and Tradition 4. Poetic Dialogization: Ancestors in the Text--Figures and Figurations I. Targeting the Unitary Discourse II. Personae and Voicing III. Parody, Erotica, and Women?s Bodies I V. Claiming and Naming the Forebear V. The Tribal and the Poetical in Q?sim îadd?d?s Poem VI. Juxtaposition and Conversational Poetics VII. Demystification VIII. Sumer Retained IX. Language Redeemed X. Functional Sufism XI. Poetic Variables: The Maww?l and K?n K?n XII. Dramatic Poetry 5. Dedications as Poetic Intersections: Precursors and Contemporaries I. Arab Gift Compendiums II. Poetic Simulacrum of Narrative III. The Prefatory and Dedicatory in Poetry IV Al-îak?m?s Bird of the East V. Dedicatory Matter: Identity for Acculturation VI. Al-Bay?t? and Khal?l î?w?--the Existentialist and the Forlorn VII. Al-Sayy?b?s Lyrical-Elegiac Mood VIII. Dedications as Paratexts: al-Kh?l IX. Addressing Lorca X. Elegy, Dedication and Repression XI. Al-Mutanabb?: Between al-Bay?t? and Ad?n?s 6. Envisioning Exile: Past Anchors and Problematic Encounters A. Exilic Evocations 1. The Power of the Past II. Exiles and Expatriates III. Thresholds of Exilic Inertia IV. Dissidence as Exile V. Estrangement, Memory, and Poetry VI. Poetic Re-inscription VII. Poetry vs. Oblivion B. Exilic Trajectories: I. Textual Homelands in Context II. Memory Dislodged III. The Poem?s Self-Interrogation IV. Exile and the Universal in Poetry V. The Poem as a Force of Life VI. A Community of Exiles VII. The Sufi Text Regained VIII. Debating Redemptive and Regenerative Poetics IX. Al-Bay?t??s Women Symbols X. The Poem, the Phoenix 7. The Edge of Recognition and Rejection: Why T. S. Eliot? I. Marxism Christianized II. Deconstructing Myth III. Tradition and the Polyphonic Poem IV. The Paradoxical Appeal of The Waste Land V. Disinheritance through Excessive Patching VI. Eliot Appropriated in Traditional Satire 8. Conclusion: Re-inscribing Tradition Deviational and Reversal Poetics I. Poetics of Legitimacy in Context II. The Elegiac Prelude III. Classical Transgressions IV. Modern Nostalgia V. Mediatory Poetics VI. Engagements and Invalidations VII. Iraqi Pain Recaptured VIII. Sufism and Transgression IX. Elegizing the Present Works Cited: A. Works in Arabic B. Works in European Languages
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Arabic poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism.