The cooing of the dove and the cawing of the crow : Late ʿAbbāsid Poetics in Abū al-ʿAlāʾ al-Maʿarrī’s Saqṭ al-Zand and Luzūm Mā Lā Yalzam

The cooing of the dove and the cawing of the crow Late ʿAbbāsid Poetics in Abū al-ʿAlāʾ al-Maʿarrī’s Saqṭ al-Zand and Luzūm Mā Lā Yalzam

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 ʿAbbāsid master-poet, Abū al-ʿAlāʾ al-Maʿarrī (d. 449 H./1057 C.E.). The first is...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: P., Stetkevych Suzanne, author (author)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Multilingüe
Publicado: Leiden, Netherlands ; Boston, Massachusetts : Brill 2022.
Colección:Brill Studies in Middle Eastern Literatures ; 43.
Materias:
Abū al-ʻAlāʼ al-Maʻarrī, > 973-1057
Qasidas.
Poetics.
Literary criticism.
Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009787034806719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Note on Transliteration and Translation
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • Introduction: Approaching Saqṭ al-Zand : The Poetics of Engagement
  • Part 1 The Poetics of Performance in the Late Classical Qaṣīdah
  • 1 A Long Night’s Journey into Day: Nocturnal Passages and Celestial Journeys
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 Section  I : Nocturnes, or Lyric ‘Fragments’
  • 3 Section  II : A Master Qaṣīdah with Nocturnal Raḥīl : A Long Night’s Journey into Day
  • 2 Performative Poetics: The Art of Defense and the Art of Self-Defense
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 Section  I : The Art of Defense: Saqṭ al-Zand 15 Mīmiyyah
  • 3 Section II : The Art of Self-Defense: Saqṭ al-Zand 16 Lāmiyyah
  • 3 The Cooing of the Dove and the Cawing of the Crow: Elegy as Performance
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 The Cooing of the Dove: Saqṭ al-Zand 43 Dāliyyah, Rithā’ to a Ḥanafī faqīh, Abū Ḥamzah
  • 3 The Cawing of the Crow: Saqṭ al-Zand 60 Fāʾiyyah, Rithāʾ to al-Sharīf al-Ṭāhir al-Mūsawī
  • 4 Yearning for Syria/Yearning for Baghdad: The Poetics of Longing and the Performance of Nostalgia
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 SZ  58: Our Camels’ Yearning
  • 3 Saqṭ al-Zand 66: Greetings Worthy of Kisrā and Tubbaʿ
  • Part 2 Stylistic Poetics and Postclassical Aesthetics
  • Introduction: Approaching Al-Luzūmiyyāt : The Poetics of Disengagement and Poetry as Programmatic Project
  • 5 Irony, Archeology, and ‘Stopping at the Ruins’: Two Readings of the Ṭasmū Luzūmiyyah
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 Section  I : Irony, Archeology, and Stopping at the Ruins
  • 3 Section  II : Lexical Exile and the Tyranny of the Rhyme
  • 4 Conclusion
  • 6 Labīd, ʿAbīd, and Lubad: Lexical Excavation and the Reclamation of the Poetic Past in Al-Luzūmiyyāt
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 Conclusion
  • Conclusion: Beyond the Great Divide.

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