TY - BOOK AU - Creswell,Robyn TI - City of Beginnings: Poetic Modernism in Beirut T2 - Translation/Transnation SN - 9780691185149 U1 - 892.7/16 23 PY - 2019///] CY - Princeton, NJ PB - Princeton University Press KW - Arabic poetry KW - Lebanon KW - Beirut KW - Modernism (Literature) KW - Poetry, Modern KW - 20th century KW - LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry KW - bisacsh KW - Abu Nuwas KW - Abu Tammam KW - Allegory KW - Ameen Rihani KW - American University of Beirut KW - American poetry KW - Anecdote KW - Arabic literature KW - Arabs KW - Cambridge University Press KW - Charles Baudelaire KW - Charles Malik KW - Comparative literature KW - Criticism KW - Edward Said KW - Evocation KW - Ezra Pound KW - Franco Moretti KW - Frantz Fanon KW - Genre KW - Ideology KW - Individualism KW - Iranian Revolution KW - Irony KW - Jabra Ibrahim Jabra KW - Kahlil Gibran KW - Late modernism KW - Lecture KW - Literary modernism KW - Literature KW - Long poem KW - Manifesto KW - Modernism KW - Modernist poetry KW - Modernity KW - Narrative KW - Nasserism KW - Newspaper KW - Novelist KW - Octavio Paz KW - Pan-Arabism KW - Parochialism KW - Philology KW - Philosophy KW - Poet KW - Poetic tradition KW - Poetry KW - Polemic KW - Politics KW - Prose poetry KW - Prose KW - Publication KW - Rhetoric KW - Ruhollah Khomeini KW - S. (Dorst novel) KW - Saint-John Perse KW - Sensibility KW - Shia Islam KW - Stanza KW - Supporter KW - Symptom KW - Syrian Social Nationalist Party KW - The Other Hand KW - Thought KW - Umayyad Caliphate KW - World War II KW - World literature KW - Writer KW - Writing N1 - 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; restricted access N2 - 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 twentieth century. Robyn Creswell introduces English-language readers to a poetic movement that will be uncannily familiar—and unsettlingly strange. He also provides an intellectual history of Lebanon during the early Cold War, when Beirut became both a battleground for rival ideologies and the most vital artistic site in the Middle East. Arabic modernism was centered on the legendary magazine Shi‘r (“Poetry”), which sought to put Arabic verse on “the map of world literature.” The Beiruti poets—Adonis, Yusuf al-Khal, and Unsi al-Hajj chief among them—translated modernism into Arabic, redefining the very idea of poetry in that literary tradition. City of Beginnings includes analyses of the Arab modernists’ creative encounters with Ezra Pound, Saint-John Perse, and Antonin Artaud, as well as their adaptations of classical literary forms. The book also reveals how the modernists translated concepts of liberal individualism, autonomy, and political freedom into a radical poetics that has shaped Arabic literary and intellectual debate to this day UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9780691185149?locatt=mode:legacy UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780691185149 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780691185149/original ER -