Poems Of Wine & Revelry

Jim Colville (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

148 Seiten

2005
Kegan Paul (Verlag)
978-0-7103-0957-0 (ISBN)

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One of the greatest of Arabic poets - indeed, the greatest in the opinion of some critics - Abu Nuwas wrote accomplished verse that demonstrated his technical mastery of all the major genres. This work offers a glimpse of the hedonistic and dissipated world he inhabited: the world of Baghdad high society at the zenith of the Abbasid caliphate.

First published in 2005. Arabic literature has a distinguished tradition of bacchanals but none are so consistently entertaining or explicit or iconoclastic as those of Abu Nuwas al_hasan ibn Hani al-Hakami (c. 756-c.815), the 'bad boy' of Abbasid poetry. In his khamriyyat, Abu Nuwas offers a glimpse of the hedonistic and dissipated world he inhabited: the world of Baghdad high society at the zenith of the Abbasid caliphate. Yet there is also a modern and up-to-date feel about his poetry that makes it ideal for presentation to an English-speaking readership, some twelve centuries after his death.

Jim Coleville

Chapter 1 Poems of Wine & Revelry: the khamr?yy?t of Abu Nuwas;

Erscheint lt. Verlag	24.5.2005
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	385 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Lyrik / Gedichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
ISBN-10	0-7103-0957-0 / 0710309570
ISBN-13	978-0-7103-0957-0 / 9780710309570
Zustand	Neuware