City of beginnings : poetic modernism in Beirut /
How poetic modernism shaped Arabic intellectual debates in the twentieth century and beyondCity of Beginnings is an exploration of modernism in Arabic poetry, a movement that emerged in Beirut during the 1950s and became the most influential and controversial Arabic literary development of the twent...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Princeton, New Jersey :
Princeton University Press,
[2019]
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| Series: | Translation/transnation.
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction. Modernism in Translation
- Chapter 1. Lebanon and Late Modernism
- Chapter 2. The Genealogy of Arabic Modernism
- Chapter 3. Figuration and Disfiguration in The Songs of Mihyar the Damascene
- Chapter 4. The Origins of the Arabic Prose Poem
- Chapter 5. The Countercanon: Adonis's Anthology of Arabic Poetry
- Chapter 6. "He Sang New Sorrow": Adonis and the Modernist Elegy
- Epilogue. Tehran 1979-Damascus 2011
- Notes
- Selected Bibliography
- Index
- Translation / Transnation
