City of Beginnings (eBook)

Poetic Modernism in Beirut

Robyn Creswell (Autor)

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2019
272 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-18514-9 (ISBN)

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Robyn Creswell is assistant professor of comparative literature at Yale University and a former poetry editor at the Paris Review. His writings have appeared in the New Yorker, the New York Review of Books, and Harper's Magazine, among many other publications. He is the translator of Abdelfattah Kilito's The Tongue of Adam and Sonallah Ibrahim's 'That Smell' and 'Notes from Prison.'

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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 ("e;Poetry"e;), which sought to put Arabic verse on "e;the map of world literature."e; 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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 8.1.2019
• Reihe/Serie: Translation/Transnation
• Reihe/Serie: Translation/Transnation
• Zusatzinfo: 10 b/w illus.
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Lyrik / Gedichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: Abu Nuwas • Abu Tammam • Adonis • Allegory • Allusion • Ameen Rihani • American Academy in Berlin • American poetry • American University of Beirut • Anecdote • Antonin Artaud • aphorism • Apostrophe • Arabic literature • Arabic modernism • Arabic modernist movement • Arabic Poetry • Arab modernists • arabs • Arthur Rimbaud • Beirut • Beshara Doumani • Caliphate • Cambridge University Press • Charles Baudelaire • Charles Malik • Cold War • Comparative Literature • Criticism • Despair (novel) • Diwan al-shi'r al-'arabi • Edward Said • Elegy • Elias Khoury • encomium • evocation • Existentialism • Ezra Pound • forrest gander • Franco Moretti • Frantz Fanon • Fredric Jameson • Genre • George Steiner • Ideology • Individualism • Institutional history • Intellectual history • Iranian Revolution • Irony • Jabra Ibrahim Jabra • Jean Strouse • Jews • Kahlil Gibran • katabasis • Lament • Late Modernism • Lebanon • Lecture • Liberalism • Literary modernism • Literature • Long poem • MAN • Manifesto • Martin Heidegger • Memoir • Mihyar the Damascene • modernism • modernist institutions • Modernist poetry • modernist poetry movement • Modernity • narrative • Nasserism • newspaper • novelist • Octavio Paz • pan-Arabism • Parochialism • Philology • Philosophy • Poet • Poetic tradition • Poetry • poets • Polemic • Politics • Prose • prose poetry • Publication • Radicalism (historical) • rhetoric • Robinson Jeffers • Romantic poetry • Ruhollah Khomeini • Saint-John Perse • Saloua Raouda Choucair • S. (Dorst novel) • sensibility • Shia Islam • Shi'r • Shi'r movement • Shi'r poets • stanza • Stephen Spender • Suggestion • Supporter • Symptom • Syrian nationalism • Syrian revolution • syrians • Syrian Social Nationalist Party • The Other Hand • Thought • Umayyad Caliphate • Unsi al-Hajj • World literature • World War II • Writer • Writing • Yusuf al-Khal
• ISBN-10: 0-691-18514-X / 069118514X
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-18514-9 / 9780691185149