Silencing the Sea : Secular Rhythms in Palestinian Poetry.

By:

Furani, Khaled

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Palo Alto : Stanford University Press, 2012.Description: 1 online resource (314 pages)Content type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9780804782609
0804782601

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Silencing the Sea : Secular Rhythms in Palestinian Poetry.DDC classification:

892.7/100995694

LOC classification:

PJ8190.2.F87 2012

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Contents:

Acknowledgments; A Note on Transliteration; Introduction; Initiations; 1. Secular Bewilderment; 2. Rhythms and Rulers; 3. The Land of the Poem; The Song; 4. Memory for Beginnings; 5. Metrical Discipline and Mastery; 6. Poets for "the People"; The Picture; 7. Enough "Screaming"; 8. Rhythmical Freedom; 9. Modern Poets and "Conservative" People; The Dream; 10. Redeeming Prose; 11. When Meter Melts; 12. The Laity Outside Poetry's Temple; Conclusions: Secular Prayers; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

Summary: Silencing the Sea follows Palestinian poets' debates about their craft as they traverse multiple and competing realities of secularism and religion, expulsion and occupation, art, politics, immortality, death, fame, and obscurity. Khaled Furani takes his reader down ancient roads and across military checkpoints to join the poets' worlds and engage with the rhythms of their lifelong journeys in Islamic and Arabic history, language, and verse. This excursion offers newfound understandings of how today's secular age goes far beyond doctrine, to inhabit our very senses, imbuing all tha.

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Silencing the Sea follows Palestinian poets' debates about their craft as they traverse multiple and competing realities of secularism and religion, expulsion and occupation, art, politics, immortality, death, fame, and obscurity. Khaled Furani takes his reader down ancient roads and across military checkpoints to join the poets' worlds and engage with the rhythms of their lifelong journeys in Islamic and Arabic history, language, and verse. This excursion offers newfound understandings of how today's secular age goes far beyond doctrine, to inhabit our very senses, imbuing all tha.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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