I point out the efforts to change the poetic concept from its superficial descriptive horizontality into a deep verticality concerned with the spiritual dimensions of Man. Here, Harb pays considerable attention to the mechanics of comparison and what makes its discovery pleasurable and wondrous. The remaining three chapters turn back to Jurjānī and his primary successors, Sirhāj al-Dīn al-Sakkākī (d.

The second is diachronic, covering the literary developments that took place during different periods. It thus speaks to a much broader audience, including scholars in comparative poetics, comparative literature, world literature, Arabic poetics, and constructive rhetoric. but the Routledge Encyclopedia of Arabic Literature contains a wealth of accurate and concise information on all the major figures, movements, and techniques in the classical tradition (as well as reference to modern works up to its time of publishing in 1998). Remarkably, he uses the Arabic literary and rhetorical traditions, centering on Balāgha and Jinās, to reveal many overlooked dimensions related to the ancient mechanism of literary production.Rashwan has, in a new and surprising manner, been able to reconnect the culture of Arab Egypt to that of its pharaonic past and thereby unearthed a continuity of vision that is grounded in a distinctly similar approach to the use of poetic language.

This chapter explains the historical development of Majallat Shi‘r by exploring its issues and the key people involved in influencing its literary direction, especially its two pillars: founder, Yūsuf al-Khāl (1917–1987), and poet ’Adūnīs (‘Alī ’Aḥmad Sa‘īd) (b. In using a forgotten and misunderstood body of literary theory to bring alive literary texts from antiquity, Rediscovering Ancient Egyptian Literature Through Arabic Poetics is a masterful contribution, not only to ancient Egyptian poetics but also to the postcolonial Arabic literary canon. In its constant dynamism, it clashes with the stability that emanates from symbols of the past that try to maintain the position of tribal postulates.

abstract = "A groundbreaking study of the relationship between ancient Egyptian literary devices and their Arabic counterparts. 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. Hany Rashwan compares the stylistic Arabic literary device of jinās, or word play, a key literary device pervading medieval and modern Arabic poetry, literary prose, songs, and proverbs, with its counterpart in ancient Egyptian.