Lara Harb

Arabic Poetics (eBook, PDF)

Aesthetic Experience in Classical Arabic Literature

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Reveals how an aesthetic of wonder underlay the classical Arabic treatments of poetry, the Quran, and Aristotelian poetics.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Mai 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108802147
• Artikelnr.: 70908656

Autorenporträt

Lara Harb is an Assistant Professor of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University where she specializes in classical Arabic literary theory, and Arabic conceptions of the 'literary'. She is the author of articles in journals including Journal of American Oriental Society and Middle Eastern Literatures. Her Ph.D. was awarded the S. A. Bonebakker Prize for the best thesis in Classical Arabic Literature in 2014.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction; 1. Wonder: a new paradigm; 2. Wonder in Aristotelian Arabic poetics; 3. Discovery in Bay
n; 4. Metaphor and the aesthetics of the sign; 5. Näm, wonder, and the inimitability of the Quran; Epilogue. Fä
a, bal
gha, and poetic beauty.