Transforming loss into beauty : essays on Arabic literature and culture in honor of Magda Al-Nowaihi /
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Call Number: PJ7601 .H25 2008
Table of Contents:
- Elegy and the confrontation of death in Arabic poetry /
- Magda Al-Nowaihi
- One size fits all /
- Michael Beard
- Notes on Abu Tammam's elegy Kadha fa-l-yajilla l-khatbu /
- András Hámori
- Dead garments, poor nobles, and a handsome youth
- notes on a poem by al-Sanawbari /
- Wolfhart Heinrichs
- Loss written in stone
- Ibn Shuhayd's Ritha' for Cordoba and its place in the Arabic elegiac tradition /
- Alexander E. Elinson
- Arabic poetics and representations of women in the Andalusian Hebrew lament /
- Jonathan P. Decter
- Qasida, Marthiya, and différance /
- Marlé Hammond
- Revisiting Layla al-Alkhyaliya's trespass /
- Dana Sajdi
- Writing about life through loss
- 'A'isha Taymur's Elegies and the subversion of the Arabic canon /
- Mervat Hatem
- Sleep in peace
- Salah 'Abd al-Sabur's Gentle elegy on the death of a hero /
- Dina Amin
- Historiography as novel
- Bensalem Himmich's al-'Allama /
- Roger Allen
- Sonallah Ibrahim's Les années de Zeth, or The exportability of contemporary Arabic literature /
- Richard Jacquemond
- Tawfiq al-Hakim, Yusuf al-Qa'id, and the "mature" Arabic novel /
- Christopher Stone
- The anti-romance antidote
- revisiting allegories of the nation /
- Mara Naaman
- Self-portraits of the Other
- toward a Palestinian poetics of Hebrew verse /
- Lital Levy.