About this title: A body of Bedouin oral poetry which was collected in the second or third Islamic century, the pre-Islamic qasidah, or ode, stands with the Qur'an as a twin foundation of Arabo-Islamic literary culture. Throughout the rich fifteen-hundred-year history of classical Arabic literature, the qasidah served as profane anti-text to the sacred text of the Qur'an. While recognizing the esteem in which Arabs have traditionally held this poetry of the pagan past, modern critics in both East and West have yet to formulate a poetics that would provide the means to analyze and evaluate the qasidah. Suzanne ...
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Description: Ithaca, Cornell Univ. Press, 1993. (xvi, 334 p., bibl., ind. ); cloth; d/w. Excellent. Drawing on the insights of contemporary literary theory, anthropology, and the history of religions, the author maintains that the poetry of the 'qasidah' is ritualized in both form and function. She brings to bear an extensive body of lore, legend, and myth as she interprets individual themes and images with reference to rights of passage and rituals of sacrifice. Her English translations of the poems under ... read more
Binding: orig. cloth
Publisher: Cornell University Press, Ithaca
Date Published: (1993)
Description: Slight page-edge soil. Minor rubbing. VG. 23x15cm, xvi, 334 pp. Contents: Presenting the Ritual Paradigm: Voicing the Mute Immortals: 'The Mu'allaqah of Labid' & the Rite of Passage; Eating the Dead / The Dead Eating: Blood Vengeance as Sacrifice; The Paradigm of Passage Manqué: Ta' abbata Sharran & Oedipus: A Paradigm of Passage Manqué; Archetype & Attribution: Al-Shanfara & the 'Lamiyyat al-'Arab'; Orality & Gender in the Elegy: The Obligations & Poetics of Gender: Women's Elegy & Blood ... read more
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