Songs Of Mihyar The Damascene

Author: Adonis

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Price : $26.00 NZD
ISBN : 9780241483558
Publisher : Penguin Books, Limited
Imprint : Penguin Books, Limited
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Publication date : December 1999
Dimensions : 19.8 x 12.9 cm
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Author : Adonis
Series : Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
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Edition : 2105
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Language : English
Dewey classification : 892.716
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Written in the early 1960s by Adonis, 'the most eloquent spokesman and explorer of Arabic modernity' (Edward Said), Songs of Mihyar the Damascene is widely considered to be the apex of the modernist poetry movement in the Arab world, and a radical departure from the rigid formal structures that had dominated Arabic poetry until the 1950s. Drawing not only on Western influences, such as T.S. Eliot and Nietzsche, but on the deep tradition and history of Arabic poetry, Adonis accomplished a masterful and unprecedented transformation of the forms and themes of Arabic poetry, initiating a profound revaluation of cultural and poetic traditions. Songs of Mihyar is a masterpiece of world literature that rewrote - through Mediterranean myths and renegade Sufi mystics - what it meant to be an Arab in the modern world.

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