The Zephyrs of Najd: The Poetics of Nostalgia in the Classical Arabic Nasib

by Jaroslav Stetkevych

Book Overview

Arabs have traditionally considered classical Arabic poetry, together with the Qur'an, as one of their supreme cultural accomplishments. Taking a comparatist approach, Jaroslav Stetkevych attempts in this book to integrate the classical Arabic lyric into an enlarged understanding of lyric poetry as a genre.

Stetkevych concentrates on the "places of lost bliss" that furnish the dominant motif in the lyric-elegiac opening section (nasib)...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226773361
• ISBN13: 9780226773360
• Release Date: December 1993
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 333 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.0"