City of beginnings : (Record no. 3093)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 0691182183
Qualifying information (hardcover : acid-free paper)
020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9780691182186
Qualifying information (hardcover : acid-free paper)
040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE
Transcribing agency AE-ShKH
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Geographic area code a-le---
050 00 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER
Classification number PJ8080
Item number .C74 2019
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Creswell, Robyn.
9 (RLIN) 9684
245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title City of beginnings :
Remainder of title poetic modernism in Beirut /
Statement of responsibility, etc. Robyn Creswell.
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
Place of publication, distribution, etc. Princeton :
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Princeton University Press,
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 2019.
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent x, 259 pages :
Other physical details illustrations ;
Dimensions 25 cm.
490 1# - SERIES STATEMENT
Series statement Translation/transnation
504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE
Bibliography, etc. note Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-249) and index.
505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE
Formatted contents note Modernism in translation -- Lebanon and late modernism -- The genealogy of Arabic modernism -- Figuration and disfiguration in The Songs of Mihyar the Damascene -- The origins of the Arabic prose poem -- The countercanon: Adonis's Anthology of Arabic Poetry -- "He sang new sorrow": Adonis and the modernism elegy -- Tehran 1979-Damascus 2011.
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc. "City of Beginnings is an exploration of modernism in Arabic poetry, a movement that emerged in Beirut during the 1950s and became the most influential and controversial Arabic literary development of the twentieth century. Robyn Creswell introduces English-language readers to a poetic movement that will be uncannily familiar--and unsettlingly strange. He also provides an intellectual history of Lebanon during the early Cold War, when Beirut became both a battleground for rival ideologies and the most vital artistic site in the Middle East. Arabic modernism was centered on the legendary magazine Shi'r ("Poetry"), which sought to put Arabic verse on "the map of world literature." The Beiruti poets--Adonis, Yusuf al-Khal, and Unsi al-Hajj chief among them--translated modernism into Arabic, redefining the very idea of poetry in that literary tradition. City of Beginnings includes analyses of the Arab modernists' creative encounters with Ezra Pound, Saint-John Perse, and Antonin Artaud, as well as their adaptations of classical literary forms. The book also reveals how the modernists translated concepts of liberal individualism, autonomy, and political freedom into a radical poetics that has shaped Arabic literary and intellectual debate to this day"--Publisher's description.
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Arabic poetry
Geographic subdivision Lebanon
Chronological subdivision 20th century
General subdivision History and criticism.
9 (RLIN) 9685
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Arabic poetry
Chronological subdivision 20th century
General subdivision History and criticism.
9 (RLIN) 9686
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Modernism (Literature)
Geographic subdivision Lebanon.
9 (RLIN) 9687
830 #0 - SERIES ADDED ENTRY--UNIFORM TITLE
Uniform title Translation/transnation.
9 (RLIN) 9688
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    Library of Congress Classification     Jameel Library Jameel Library General Stacks 07/19/2020   PJ8080 .C74 2019 13465 07/19/2020 07/19/2020 Books