City of beginnings : poetic modernism in Beirut / Robyn Creswell.
City of beginnings : poetic modernism in Beirut / Robyn Creswell.
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Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2019]
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G 2019/5524
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English
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Physical content
x, 259 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
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volume
Contents
Modernism in translation -- Lebanon and late modernism -- The genealogy of Arabic modernism -- Figuration and disfiguration in The Songs of Mihyar the Damascene -- The origins of the Arabic prose poem -- The countercanon: Adonis's Anthology of Arabic Poetry -- "He sang new sorrow": Adonis and the mo...
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Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2019]
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New Jersey
Date Published
[2019]
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"City of Beginnings is an exploration of modernism in Arabic poetry, a movement that emerged in Beirut during the 1950s and became the most influential and controversial Arabic literary development of the twentieth century. Robyn Creswell introduces English-language readers to a poetic movement that will be uncannily familiar--and unsettlingly stra...
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City of beginnings : poetic modernism in Beirut / Robyn Creswell.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-249) and index.
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©2019
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G 2019/5524
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74VKa273WzPX
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ISBN
9780691182186 (hardcover : acid-free paper)
0691182183 (hardcover : acid-free paper)
DDC
800
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991024275516802626
