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Record Nr.

UNINA9910480937703321

Autore

Talib Adam

Titolo

How do you say "epigram" in Arabic? : literary history at the limits of comparison / / by Adam Talib

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden, Netherlands ; ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : , : Brill, , 2018

©2018

ISBN

90-04-35053-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (337 pages)

Collana

Brill Studies in Middle Eastern Literatures, , 1571-5183 ; ; Volume 40

Disciplina

892.780209

Soggetti

Epigrams, Arabic - History and criticism

Arabic poetry - 1258-1800 - History and criticism

Arabic poetry - 19th century - History and criticism

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preliminary Material -- Preamble: Growth and Graft -- 1 A Bounding Line -- 2 The Sum of its Parts -- Preliminary Remarks -- 3 Epigrams in the World -- 4 Hegemonic Presumptions and Atomic Fallout -- 5 Epigrams in Parallax -- Appendix -- Annotated Bibliography of Unpublished Sources -- Sources -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

The qaṣīdah and the qiṭʿah are well known to scholars of classical Arabic literature, but the maqṭūʿ , a form of poetry that emerged in the thirteenth century and soon became ubiquitous, is as obscure today as it was once popular. These poems circulated across the Arabo-Islamic world for some six centuries in speech, letters, inscriptions, and, above all, anthologies. Drawing on more than a hundred unpublished and published works, How Do You Say “Epigram” in Arabic? is the first study of this highly popular and adaptable genre of Arabic poetry. By addressing this lacuna, the book models an alternative comparative literature, one in which the history of Arabic poetry has as much to tell us about epigrams as does Greek.