%0 Book
%A Basilius Bawardi
%D 2019
%C Berlin, Germany
%I Peter Lang Verlag
%@ 9783631775646
%T The Magazine Shi‛r and the Poetics of Modern Arabic Poetry
%R 10.3726/b14972
%U https://www.peterlang.com/document/1055409
%X The book comprehensively examines the Sh‘ir magazine published in Beirut (1957-1964; 1967-1969). The magazine’s editors sought to generate a profound change in the role and form of Arabic poetry as a tool to support a significant leap forward in the Arab thinking and writing. The book traces the mechanism of development of the magazine’s content and the thinking of its main editors, through in-depth textual analysis of the three main branches of the magazine’s content: translated poetry, original Arabic poetry, and articles of literary criticism. Each of these branches is accompanied by a complete appendix of relevant items. The analysis revals the significant role that Sh‘ir played in enabling a new kind of secular and personal poetics, including that of prose-poetry and vision poems.
%K personal poetry, prose poetry, literary criticism, translated poetry, Arabic culture, vision poem
%G English