Defining Metapoesis in the ʿAbbāsid Age
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11015288 |
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| Authors | Huda J Fakhreddine (1 Middlebury College, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 42 |
| Issue | 2-3 |
| Pages | 205-235 |
| Publication date | 2011-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Arabic Literature (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0085-2376 • E-ISSN: 1570-064X |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1163/157006411x596159 |
| OpenAlex | W2093503692 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 7 |
This article explores the definition of the term meta-poetic and its application to the poetry of the ʿAbbāsid age, focusing on short compositions and excerpts in which poets explicitly voice their critical opinions on poetry. The cultural milieu of the period and the debates and issues that surrounded ʿAbbāsid poetry necessarily influenced poets and their creative processes. ʿAbbāsid poets wrote for an ideal reader/critic not only qualified to appreciate their innovations but also capable of placing their contributions in the continuum of the tradition they were writing against, bringing the relationship with the literary past to the forefront of the poet’s concerns
Abbé · Art · Art history · Epistemology · Ideal (ethics · Literature · Poetry · Archaeology and Historical Studies · Historical and Linguistic Studies · History · Islamic Studies and History · Philosophy
| Highly cited | No |
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