Silencing the sea [[electronic resource] ] : secular rhythms in Palestinian poetry / / Khaled Furani

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910462295803321
• Autore: Furani Khaled <1973->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Stanford, Calif., : Stanford University Press, 2012
• ISBN: 0-8047-8260-1
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (314 p.)
• Disciplina: 892.7/100995694
• Soggetti: Arabic poetry - Palestine - History and criticism; Arabic poetry - 20th century - History and criticism; Poetics; Secularism in literature; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Secular bewilderment -- Rhythms and rulers -- The land of the poem -- Memory for beginnings -- Metrical discipline and mastery -- Poets for "the people" -- Enough "screaming" -- Rhythmical freedom -- Modern poets and "conservative" people -- Redeeming prose -- When meter melts -- The laity outside poetry's temple -- Conclusions : secular prayers.
• Sommario/riassunto: Silencing the Sea follows Palestinian poets' debates about their craft as they traverse multiple and competing realities of secularism and religion, expulsion and occupation, art, politics, immortality, death, fame, and obscurity. Khaled Furani takes his reader down ancient roads and across military checkpoints to join the poets' worlds and engage with the rhythms of their lifelong journeys in Islamic and Arabic history, language, and verse. This excursion offers newfound understandings of how today's secular age goes far beyond doctrine, to inhabit our very senses, imbuing all tha