- Description
- 1 online resource (pages cm.)
- Summary
- "In The Cooing of the Dove and the Cawing of the Crow Suzanne Pinckney Stetkevych offers original translations, close readings, and new interpretations of selected poems from the two contrasting diwans of the blind Late Abbasid master-poet, Abu al-Ala al-Ma arri (d. 449 H./1057 C.E.). The first is Saqt al-Zand (Sparks of the Flint), the highly esteemed collection of qasidah poetry of his youth, which he later disavowed. The second is Luzum Ma La Yalzam (Requiring What Is Not Required), the programmatic double-rhymed collection from his later period of withdrawal and seclusion. She argues that the contrasting 'poetics of engagement' and 'poetics of disengagement' of the two diwans reflect the transition from High Classical to Post Classical aesthetics"--
- Series Statement
- Brill studies in Middle Eastern literatures, 1571-5183 ; volume 43
- Uniform Title
- Cooing of the dove and the cawing of the crow (Online)
- Alternative Title
- Cooing of the dove and the cawing of the crow (Online)
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- LCCN
- 2022014364
- OCLC
- ssj0002716075
- Author
Stetkevych, Suzanne Pinckney.
- Title
The cooing of the dove and the cawing of the crow [electronic resource] : late Abbāsid poetics in Abū al-'Alā' al-Ma'arrī's Saqṭ al-Zand and Luzūm Mā Lā Yalzam / by Suzanne Pinckney Stetkevych.
- Imprint
Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2023]
- Series
Brill studies in Middle Eastern literatures, 1571-5183 ; volume 43
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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