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Document Type:Book
Title:Early Islamic poetry and poetics /edited by Suzanne Pinckney Stetkevych.
Added Author: Stetkevych, Suzanne Pinckney
Publisher: Surrey (UK) : Ashgate, 2009.
Pages:428 p.
Language:English
ISBN:9780860787204
Bibliographic Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:Oral composition in pre-islamic poetry / James T. Monroe -- Structuralist interpretations of pre-islamic poetry : critique and new directions / Suzanne Pinckney Stetkevych -- Islamic kingship and Arabic panegyric poetry in the early 9th century / Stefan Sperl -- The poetic coterie of the Caliph al-Mutawakkil (d. 247 H.): a contribution to the analysis of authorities of socio-literary legitimation / J.E. bencheikh -- The uses of the Qasida : thematic and structural patterns in a poem of bashshar / Julie Scott Meisami -- 'Abbasid praise poetry in light of dramatic discourse and speech act theory / Beatrice Gruendler -- Revisiting Layla al-Akhyaliya's trespass / Dana Sajdi -- Time and reality in Nasib and Ghazal / Renate Jacobi -- Heterotopia and the wine poem in early Islamic culture / Yaseen Noorani -- Sensibility and snaesthesia : Ibn al-Rumi's singing slave-girl / Akiko Motoyoshi -- Name and epithet : the philology and semiotics of animal nomenclature in early Arabic poetry / Jarolslav Stetkevych -- Guises
Author as Subject: Layla al-Akhyaliyya, d. ca. 704Ibn al-Rumi, 836-896
Descriptors: Poetry, Ancient Poetry, Ancient -- 'Abbasi
Series: The formation of the classical Islamic world v. 37
 

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