Robyn Creswell

Biographic Data

ID208160
NAMERobyn Creswell
GIVEN NAMESRobyn
FAMILY NAMECreswell
SIGNATURECRESWELL R
AFFILIATIONSNew York Times
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS6
TOTAL CITATIONS1
WORKS AS AUTHOR6
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2016
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2021
H-INDEX1

  • Poets in Prose

    Open AccessRobyn CreswellARTICLEDaedalus2021

    Novelists in many literary traditions have come to terms with the distinctiveness of their art form by thinking about poets and poetry. The need to differentiate the novel from poetry is especially pressing for Arab prose writers because of poetry's preeminent status in that literary corpus. Many twentieth-century Arab intellectuals have valorized the novel as the representative genre of modernity–whether conceived as an absent ideal or the epoch…

  • How Information Warfare Shaped the Arab Spring

    Robyn CreswellARTICLEJournal of Arabic Literature2020

  • City of Beginnings

    Robyn CreswellBOOKCity of Beginnings2019

    How poetic modernism shaped Arabic intellectual debates in the twentieth century and beyondCity of Beginnings is an exploration of modernism in Arabic poetry, a movement that emerged in Beirut during the 1950s and became the most influential and controversial Arabic literary development of the twentieth century. Robyn Creswell introduces English-language readers to a poetic movement that will be uncannily familiar-and unsettlingly strange. He als…

  • Nazik al-Mala’ika and the Poetics of Pan-Arabism

    Robyn CreswellARTICLECritical Inquiry2019Cited by: 1References: 2

  • City of Beginnings

    Open AccessRobyn CreswellBOOKCity of Beginnings2018

    This book is an exploration of modernism in Arabic poetry, a movement that emerged in Beirut during the 1950s and became the most influential and controversial Arabic literary development of the twentieth century. The book introduces English-language readers to a poetic movement that will be uncannily familiar—and unsettlingly strange. It provides an intellectual history of Lebanon during the early Cold War, when Beirut became both a battleground…

  • Is Arabic Untranslatable

    Robyn CreswellARTICLEPublic Culture2016References: 1

    In "Embargoed Literature," an essay written twenty-five years ago, Edward W. Said noted that "of all the major world literatures, Arabic remains relatively unknown and unread in the West." How is it that one of the world's great literary corpuses, as rich as those of classical Greek, Sanskrit, and Chinese, has so little echo in English? Is Arabic literature untranslatable? The obstacles in this case are political as much as they are linguistic. T…