Originally presented as the author's dissertation (doctoral)--Indiana University, 2011. Includes bibliographical references (pages [203]-210) and index.
Contents:
1: Introducing metapoesis in Arabic poetry -- Arabic poetry in the twentieth century -- The free verse movement: a metapoetic project -- The second generation: metapoesis in progress -- 2: Metapoesis in the Abbasid age -- Audience, critics, and poetic debates -- Abbasid poets and reflections on poetry -- 3: The abodes are not the abodes: the Abbasid meta-nasib -- The elegiac prelude: evoking voice in the qasidah -- Abu Nuwas: toying with the atlal motif -- Abu Tammam's elegiac preludes: abstraction and change -- The freeing of the atlal motif: after Abu Tammam -- 4: Crossing line after line: the Abbasid poetic rahil -- Abu Tammam herds "virgin meanings" -- Ibn al-Rumi journeys "line after line" -- 5: A poem about a poem about a poem: two poets and a patron -- Al-Buhturi and 'Ubaydallah b. Tahir: a failed exchange -- A poem about a poem about a poem -- Poems to a friend: Ibn al-Rumi responds.
Series:
Brill studies in Middle Eastern literatures, volume 36
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