TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hamori,Andras
TI  - On the Art of Medieval Arabic Literature
T2  - Princeton Essays in Literature
SN  - 9780691618364
U1  - 892.71309 23
PY  - 2015///]
CY  - Princeton, NJ : 
PB  - Princeton University Press, 
KW  - Arabian nights
KW  - Arabic poetry
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Civilization, Medieval, in literature
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM / Middle Eastern
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Abbasid Caliphate
KW  - Abu Muslim
KW  - Abu Nuwas
KW  - Abu Tammam
KW  - Al-Farazdaq
KW  - Al-Jurjani
KW  - Al-Mutanabbi
KW  - Al-Walid
KW  - Al-mi'raj
KW  - Allegory
KW  - Antithesis
KW  - Apocalyptic literature
KW  - Arabic literature
KW  - Archetypal literary criticism
KW  - Archetype
KW  - Arrival and Departure
KW  - Assonance
KW  - Averroes
KW  - Bahram (Shahnameh)
KW  - Barzakh
KW  - Caesura
KW  - Calligraphy
KW  - Chiasmus
KW  - Divine retribution
KW  - Early Muslim conquests
KW  - Elegiac
KW  - En route (novel)
KW  - Epithet
KW  - Etymology
KW  - Excursus
KW  - Exegesis
KW  - Fart
KW  - G. (novel)
KW  - Ghazal
KW  - Giorgione
KW  - God Knows (novel)
KW  - Gog and Magog
KW  - Grand style (rhetoric)
KW  - Harun al-Rashid
KW  - Hasan of Basra
KW  - Hebrew literature
KW  - Historical linguistics
KW  - Humanities
KW  - Ibn Marwan
KW  - Incantation
KW  - Internal rhyme
KW  - Iraq
KW  - Islam
KW  - Islamic culture
KW  - Islamic literature
KW  - Khidr
KW  - Kitab
KW  - La Vita Nuova
KW  - Layla and Majnun
KW  - Le Morte d'Arthur
KW  - Leveling (philosophy)
KW  - Lingua (play)
KW  - Literary theory
KW  - Literature
KW  - Manichaeism
KW  - Medieval literature
KW  - Mu'jam al-Buldan
KW  - Muhammad
KW  - Mutability (poem)
KW  - Nahj al-Balagha
KW  - Narrative poetry
KW  - Of Modern Poetry
KW  - Old Arabic
KW  - Old Testament
KW  - Parody
KW  - Philology
KW  - Poet
KW  - Poetic tradition
KW  - Poetry
KW  - Prose
KW  - Proverb
KW  - Pun
KW  - Qasida
KW  - Quintilian
KW  - Quran
KW  - Rashi
KW  - Religion
KW  - Renunciation
KW  - Rhyme
KW  - S. (Dorst novel)
KW  - Sacred prostitution
KW  - Satire
KW  - Simile
KW  - Superiority (short story)
KW  - Supplication
KW  - Tempus (Forgotten Realms)
KW  - The Allegory of Love
KW  - The Singer of Tales
KW  - Tincture (heraldry)
KW  - Transliteration
KW  - Ubi sunt
KW  - Umayyad Caliphate
KW  - Western literature
KW  - Yaziji
N1  - Frontmatter --; Preface --; Contents --; Note on Translation and Transliteration --; ONE. The Pre-Islamic Qasida: The Poet as Hero --; TWO. Ghazal and Khamriya: The Poet as Ritual Clown --; THREE Wasf: Two Views of Time --; FOUR. The Poem and Its Parts --; FIVE. Ambiguities --; SIX. An Allegory from the Arabian Nights: The City of Brass --; SEVEN. The Music of the Spheres: The Porter and the Three Ladies of Baghdad --; Relative Chronology of People and Events --; Bibliography of Works Cited --; Index; restricted access
N2  - In applying the standards of modern literary criticism to medieval Arabic literature, Andras Hamori concentrates on those aspects of the literature that appear most alien to modern Western taste: the limitation of themes, the sedimentation with conventions, and the use of elusive patterns of composition.The first part of the book approaches Arabic literature from the historical point of view, concentrating on the transformations in poetic genres and poetic attitudes towards time and society in the literature between the sixth and the tenth centuries. The problems of poetic technique are then discussed, with special emphasis on poetic unity and the use of conventions. The third part of the book deals with methods of composition in prose through an examination of the orders and disorders in two tales from the Arabian Nights.Originally published in 1974.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905
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