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An anthology of modern Arabic poetry, 1945-1984 : with a critical introduction

Note: Page 387 is missing from this electronic document because it is missing from the original archival version. / This study presents an Anthology of Modern Arabic Poetry from 1945 to 1984, selected and translated into English, containing poems by thirty-five poets who represent diverse regions of the Arab world. A critical introduction was designed to provide the Western reader with a brief overview of the literary, cultural, and political factors which have shaped the modernist movement in Arabic poetry of the past four decades. The “new poetry” is discussed in terms of form, the expansion of mythological interest which provided a common ground for the talents of the influential “Tammuzi poets,” and the relations between politics and poetry. Theories of Arabic poetic modernism have been examined with reference to modernist movements in the West which have both inspired and repelled Arabs in the search for a contemporary poetic form and idiom. / Cette etude presente une anthologie choisie de la poesie arabe moderne de 1945 a 1984, traduite en anglais, et regroupant des oeuvres de trente cinq poetes qui representent des regions diverses du monde arabe. Une introduction critique offrira au lecteur occidental un survol des facteurs litteraires, culturels et politiques qui ont fagonne Ie mouvement moderniste dans la poesie arabe des quatre dernieres decades. La "poesie nouvelle" est commentee en termes de forme, d' elaboration des interets mythologiques qui ont fourni un terrain commun aux influents poetes "Tammuzes," et de relations entre politique et poesie. Les theories du modernisme arabe en poesie sont etudiees en rapport avec les mouvements modernistes en Occident, mouvements qui ont a la fois inspire et repousse les Arabes qui cherchaient un langage et une forme poetiques contemporains.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:QMM.119088
Date January 1984
CreatorsAsfour, John.
ContributorsDudek, Louis (Supervisor)
PublisherMcGill University
Source SetsLibrary and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeElectronic Thesis or Dissertation
Formatapplication/pdf
CoverageDoctor of Philosophy. (Department of English.)
RightsAll items in eScholarship@McGill are protected by copyright with all rights reserved unless otherwise indicated.
Relationalephsysno: 000219695, Theses scanned by McGill Library

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