TY  - BOOK
AU  - Basilius Bawardi
PY  - 2019
CY  - Berlin, Germany
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 9783631775646
TI  - The Magazine Shi‛r and the Poetics of Modern Arabic Poetry
DO  - 10.3726/b14972
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1055409
N2  - The book comprehensively examines the Sh‘ir magazine published in Beirut (1957-1964; 1967-1969). The magazine’s editors sought to generate a profound change in the role and form of Arabic poetry as a tool to support a significant leap forward in the Arab thinking and writing. The book traces the mechanism of development of the magazine’s content and the thinking of its main editors, through in-depth textual analysis of the three main branches of the magazine’s content: translated poetry, original Arabic poetry, and articles of literary criticism. Each of these branches is accompanied by a complete appendix of relevant items. The analysis revals the significant role that Sh‘ir played in enabling a new kind of secular and personal poetics, including that of prose-poetry and vision poems.
KW  - personal poetry, prose poetry, literary criticism, translated poetry, Arabic culture, vision poem
LA  - English
ER  -