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Mannerism in Arabic Poetry

Stefan Sperl
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      This book attempts to identify elements of mannerism and classicism in medieval Arabic poetry. Mannerism in Arabic has usually been linked with the appearance of an ornate rhetorical style called badi which became characteristic of poetry and prose from the fifth century AH/ninth century AD onwards. This study, however, is not so much concerned with the discussion of rhetorical devices as manifest in selected passages and individual lines of poetry; rather, it seeks to attain its objective through a structuralist analysis of complete poems. After the formulation of a hypothesis on the structural coherence of a cardinal form of poetic expression, the panegyric, structuralist analyses of selected poems from the medieval era follow, and the final chapter describes mannerism and classicism as contrasting styles in which the individual poem relates in fundamentally different ways to the literary convention from which it arises and the subject matter it portrays.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Stefan Sperl EAN: 9780521522922 COUNTRY: United Kingdom PAGES: WEIGHT: 360 g HEIGHT: 229 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Cambridge University Press DATE PUBLISHED: 2004-06-07 CITY: GENRE: HISTORY / Middle East / General WIDTH: 152 cm SPINE:

      Book Themes:

      Arabic, Prehistory, BCE period – Protohistory, c 1000 CE to c 1500, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Literary studies: poetry and poets

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      This book attempts to identify elements of mannerism and classicism in medieval Arabic poetry. Mannerism in Arabic has usually been linked with the appearance of an ornate rhetorical style called badi which became characteristic of poetry and prose from the fifth century AH/ninth century AD onwards. This study, however, is not so much concerned with the discussion of rhetorical devices as manifest in selected passages and individual lines of poetry; rather, it seeks to attain its objective through a structuralist analysis of complete poems. After the formulation of a hypothesis on the structural coherence of a cardinal form of poetic expression, the panegyric, structuralist analyses of selected poems from the medieval era follow, and the final chapter describes mannerism and classicism as contrasting styles in which the individual poem relates in fundamentally different ways to the literary convention from which it arises and the subject matter it portrays.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Stefan Sperl EAN: 9780521522922 COUNTRY: United Kingdom PAGES: WEIGHT: 360 g HEIGHT: 229 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Cambridge University Press DATE PUBLISHED: 2004-06-07 CITY: GENRE: HISTORY / Middle East / General WIDTH: 152 cm SPINE:

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      Arabic, Prehistory, BCE period – Protohistory, c 1000 CE to c 1500, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Literary studies: poetry and poets

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