The Hunt in Arabic Poetry: From Heroic to Lyric to Metapoetic

by Jaroslav Stetkevych

Among the world's major literary traditions, Arabic poetry is perhaps unique in that the theme of the hunt runs in a continuous, if uneven, current from the pre-Islamic, oral tradition, dating as far back as the fifth century CE, through the coming of Islam in the seventh century and the Umayyad and 'Abbasid caliphates, ultimately serving as a classical substrate for the radical Modernism of the twentieth century. This striking continuity of theme...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0268041512
• ISBN13: 9780268041519
• Release Date: December 2015
• Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 8.9"