POETICS OF ANTI-COLONIALISM IN THE ARABIC QASIDAH [Brill Studies in Middle Eastern Literatures, Vol. 29]

by Kadhim, Hussein N

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Leiden: E. J. Brill, 2004 Still sealed in publisher's original shrinkwrap. xii, 288 pp. Notes, appendices, bibliography, index. Representing the most sustained investigation of the aesthetics of anti-colonialism in modern Arabic poetry, this book chronicles the evolution of a distinct poetics that sought to maintain the integrity of the qasidah without circumventing its historical moment. The author painstakingly analyzes a selection of odes by four leading twentieth-century poets, Ahmad Shawqi, Ma'ruf al-Rusafi, Badr Shakir al-Sayyab and 'Abd al-Wahhab al-Bayati.. First Edition. Hardcover. New/No Jacket (as issued). 25 x 17 cm.

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