Arabic Poetics: Aesthetic Experience in Classical Arabic Literature (Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization)

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Year 2019 ISBN (PDF) 9783631775646 ISBN (ePUB) 9783631775653 ISBN (MOBI) 9783631775660 ISBN (Hardcover) 9783631775639 DOI 10. A century ago, pioneering Egyptian Egyptologist Ahmad Kamal Pasha gained little traction for his plea to compare ancient Egyptian with Arabic, a kindred language from within the same phylum (now known as Afro-Asiatic). The discussion of the ways in which pre-modern Arabic writings visualize the body in action at moments of creativity will be anchored in Kitāb al-aghānī’s description of Jarīr on the night he composed one of his most famous satires. but the Routledge Encyclopedia of Arabic Literature contains a wealth of accurate and concise information on all the major figures, movements, and techniques in the classical tradition (as well as reference to modern works up to its time of publishing in 1998). This chapter also looks at the literary path the magazine took and how this led to fierce debates with Majallat al-Ādāb (Magazine of Literatures) and other literary and journalistic bodies.

How many times have we experienced immense joy after solving a mentally rigorous problem, or felt displeasure with the incorrect reasoning of others? The chapter also deals with the general reasons behind the closure of both phases of the magazine and suggests the real causes that twice forced al-Khāl to give up his dream. Remarkably, he uses the Arabic literary and rhetorical traditions, centering on Balāgha and Jinās, to reveal many overlooked dimensions related to the ancient mechanism of literary production. Text editions are as a rule accompanied by a translation on facing pages; both text editions and translations should include comprehensive, critical introductions which give a full and proper appreciation of the text or texts in question.

This experience is the emotional pleasure that results from the cognitive process of the discovery of meanings that are strange, unexpected, and require mental effort to apprehend. Here, Harb pays considerable attention to the mechanics of comparison and what makes its discovery pleasurable and wondrous. This chapter explains the historical development of Majallat Shi‘r by exploring its issues and the key people involved in influencing its literary direction, especially its two pillars: founder, Yūsuf al-Khāl (1917–1987), and poet ’Adūnīs (‘Alī ’Aḥmad Sa‘īd) (b. Harb’s focus on Jurjānī and his successors allows her to show the convergence of wonder as an aesthetic theory from multiple vantages, since compositional eloquence also arises from deducing unapparent, and at times unexpected, meanings about the context of speech additional to its original meaning based on the syntactical structure, the discovery of which instills wonder (217-33).

This chapter deals with the project of translating foreign texts and publishing ←17 | 18→them regularly in Majallat Shi‘r. I also discovered that its sophistication has been greatly underestimated in modern scholarship, even by scholars I greatly respect and admire. The study of Mesopotamian literary texts usually concentrates on their contents, on their narrative and contextual values, their interpretations based mostly on ad hoc philological analyses of the texts involved.In all cases, many human experiences induce emotion, and the most human of activities, those cognitive in nature, are not exempt. Now the time is surely ripe for Hany Rashwan's bold postcolonial challenge--that applying the Arabic concept of wordplay (jinās) to ancient Egyptian texts can yield literary and linguistic insights which have thus far eluded his fellow Egyptologists. A groundbreaking study of the relationship between ancient Egyptian literary devices and their Arabic counterparts. Unlike simile, which evokes wonder through the discovery of relations, these figures evoke wonder through the way they signify meanings in an indirect manner, leading to the same process of discovery and pleasure (172).