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Author Furani, Khaled

Title Silencing the Sea : Secular Rhythms in Palestinian Poetry
Published Palo Alto : Stanford University Press, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (314 pages)
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Arabic poetry -- Palestine -- History and criticism
Arabic poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism
Poetics.
Secularism in literature.
Literature -- Philosophy.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- African.
HISTORY -- Middle East -- General.
Literature -- Philosophy
Arabic poetry
Poetics
Secularism in literature
Middle East -- Palestine
Genre/Form Electronic books
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780804782609
0804782601