A Study of Classic Arabic Poetry through the Lens of Metapoesis (Modern Critical Theory)

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Huda Jawdat Fakhreddine
President and Fellows of Middlebury College (Middlebury, VT 05753-6004)

I propose to write a book that will use an approach I describe as "Comparative Modernism" to expand the study of metapoesis to include the Abbasid age in Arabic literature (8th and 9th century), a phase of poetic turmoil in which a new poetic taste and new poetic standards were set. The book will begin by drawing on work on metapoesis and twentieth century modernism in general and will then focus on the Free Verse movement in Arabic poetry as a self-conscious meta-poetic project. Using the Free Verse experience as a backdrop, my study will expand its use of the term metapoesis to explore similar meta-poetic attitudes of Abbasid modernist poets (muhdathun), who not only explained and commented on the inherited poetic forms but, more importantly, helped revolutionize them. This will be the only work in the field which treats both classical and modern Arabic poetry within a contemporary theoretical framework.

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Metapoesis in the Arabic Tradition (Book)
Title: Metapoesis in the Arabic Tradition
Author: Huda J. Fakhreddine
Abstract: In Metapoesis in the Arabic Tradition Huda J. Fakhreddine expands the study of metapoesis to include the Abbasid age in Arabic literature. Through this lens that is often used to study modernist poetry of the 20th and the 21st century, this book detects and examines a meta-poetic tendency and a self-reflexive attitude in the poetry of the first century of Abbasid poets. What and why is poetry? are questions the Abbasid poets asked themselves with the same persistence and urgency their modern successor did. This approach to the poetry of the Abbasid age serves to refresh our sense of what is “modernist” or “poetically new” and detach it from chronology.
Year: 2015
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Secondary URL: http://www.brill.com/products/reference-work/metapoesis-arabic-tradition
Publisher: Brill
Type: Single author monograph
ISBN: 9789004294561
Copy sent to NEH?: No

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