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Stetkevych Suzanne Pinckney |
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The mute immortals speak : pre-Islamic poetry and the poetics of ritual / / Suzanne Pinckney Stetkevych |
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Ithaca : , : Cornell University Press, , 1993 |
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Baltimore, Md. : , : Project MUSE, , 2021 |
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©1993 |
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9781501720185 |
150172018X |
9781501720178 |
1501720171 |
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[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xvi, 334 pages) |
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Rites and ceremonies in literature |
Qasidas - Themes, motives |
Arabic poetry |
Arabic poetry - To 622 - History and criticism |
Criticism, interpretation, etc. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Monografia |
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Note generali |
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"Appendix of Arabic texts"--Page 287-317. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Foreword / Gregory Nagy -- 1. Voicing the Mute Immortals: The Muallaqah of Labid and the Rite of Passage -- 2. Eating the Dead / The Dead Eating: Blood Vengeance as Sacrifice -- 3. Taabbata Sharran and Oedipus: A Paradigm of Passage Manque -- 4. Archetype and Attribution: Al-Shanfara and the Lamiyyat al-Arab -- 5. The Obligations and Poetics of Gender: Women's Elegy and Blood Vengeance -- 6. Memory Inflamed: Muhalhil ibn Rabiah and the War ofal-Basus -- 7. Regicide and Retribution: The Muallaqah of Imru al-Qays. |
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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 |
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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 Pinckney Stetkevych here offers the first aesthetics appropriate for this orally composed Arabic verse, an aesthetics that is built on-and tested on-close readings of a number of the poems. Drawing on the insights of contemporary literary theory, anthropology, and the history of religions, Stetkevych 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 references to rites of passage and rituals of sacrifice. Her English translations of the poems under discussion convey the power and beauty of the originals, as well as a sense of their complex intertextuality and distinctive lexicon. The Mute Immortals Speak will be important for students and scholars in the fields of Middle Eastern literatures, Islamic studies, folklore, oral literature, and literary theory, and by anthropologists, comparatists, historians of religion, and medievalists. |
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UNINA9910965033803321 |
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Lunsford Andrea A. <1942-> |
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Crossing Borderlands : Composition And Postcolonial Studies |
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University of Pittsburgh Press, 2014 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (297 p.) |
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Pitt Comp Literacy Culture |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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English language -- Rhetoric -- Study and teaching -- United States |
Immigrants -- Education (Higher) -- United States |
Minorities -- Education (Higher) -- United States |
Multicultural education -- United States |
English language - Rhetoric - Study and teaching - United States |
Minorities - Education (Higher) - United States |
Immigrants - Education (Higher) - United States |
Multicultural education - United States |
Postcolonialism - United States |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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""Contents""; ""1. Composition and Postcolonial Studies: An Introduction / Andrea A. Lunsford and Lahoucine Ouzgane ""; ""2. Composing Postcolonial Studies / Min-Zhan Lu ""; ""3. Toward a Mestiza Rhetoric: Gloria Anzalda on Composition and Postcoloniality / Andrea A. Lunsford ""; ""4. Terms of Engagement: Postcolonialism, Transnationalism, and Composition Studies / Deepika Bahri ""; ""5. Encountering the Other: Postcolonial Theory and Composition Scholarship / Gary A. Olson ""; ""6. Pratt and Pratfalls: Revisioning Contact Zones / R. Mark Hall and Mary Rosner "" |
""7. Beside Ourselves: Rhetoric and Representation in Postcolonial Feminist Writing / Susan C. Jarratt """"8. Postcolonial Transformations in Canadian Inuit Testimonio / Martin Behr ""; ""9. (Im)migrant Crossings / Aneil Rallin ""; ""10. Resisting Writing: Reflections on the Postcolonial Factor in the Writing Class / David Dzaka ""; ""11. Arts of the U.S. |
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Mexico Contact Zone / Jaime Armin Meja ""; ""12. Hybridity: A Lens for Understanding Mestizo/a Writers / Louise Rodriguez Connal "" |
""13. The Politics of Location: Using Flare-Ups to Spark ""Reflexive Dialogue"" in the Ever-Changing Classroom Text / Pamela Gay """"14. The New Literacy/Orality Debates: Ebonics and the Redefinition of Literacy in Multicultural Settings / C. Jan Swearingen ""; ""Notes""; ""Bibliography""; ""Contributors""; ""Index"" |
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On the surface, postcolonial studies and composition studies appear to have little in common. However, they share a strikingly similar goal: to provide power to the words and actions of those who have been marginalized or oppressed. Postcolonial studies accomplishes this goal by opening a space for the voices of "others" in traditional views of history and literature. Composition studies strives to empower students by providing equal access to higher education and validation for their writing. For two fields that have so much in common, very little dialogue exists between them. Crossing Border |
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