"This volume is in memory of Professor Mounah A. Khouri, poet, educator, and scholar and is presented by his colleagues, friends, and former students"--P. facing t.p. verso. "Publications of Mounah A. Khouri": p. [xi]-xvii. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Allegory of the soul : a reading of Rūmi's Arabic poetry / Omaima Abou-Bakr. Publications of Mounah A. Khouri / Terri DeYoung -- Introduction : Mounah A. Khouri / Issa J. Boullata -- My Demon and I (A Poem) / Jabrā Ibrāhīm Jabrā -- Gibran's concept of modernity / Antoine G. Karam -- The Greek cultural heritage and the odyssey of modern Arab poets / Asʻad E. Khairallah -- Nasser and the death of elegy in modern Arabic poetry / Terri DeYoung -- Ibrāhīm Ṭūqān's poem "Red Tuesday" / Issa J. Boullata -- Conflicts, oppositions, negations : modern Arabic poetry and the fragmentation of [actual symbol not reproducible]self, text / Kamal Abu-Deeb -- Contesting languages : Tawfīq Yūsuf ʻAwwād's Ṭawāḥīn Bayrūt / Sabah Ghandour -- A different voice : the novels of Ibrāhīm Al-Kawnī / Roger Allen -- Instead of the song of the nightingale / Cornelis Nijland -- Modern Arab theater : the journey back / Joseph Zeidan -- Film and pharaonism : Shādī ʻAbd Al-Salām's Eloquent Peasant / Allen Douglas and Fedwa Malti-Douglas -- The last days of Imruʼ Al-Qays : Anatolia / Irfān Shahīd -- Imruʼ Al-Qays praises the Prophet / Julie Scott Meisami -- Allegory of the soul : a reading of Rūmi's Arabic poetry / Omaima Abou-Bakr.
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