Description in classical Arabic poetry : waṣf, ekphrasis, and interarts theory /
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| Author / Creator: | Sumi, Akiko Motoyoshi. |
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| Imprint: | Leiden ; Boston, MA : Brill, 2004. |
| Description: | xvi, 251 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Brill studies in Middle Eastern literatures ; v. 25 |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5047050 |
Table of Contents:
- Ch. 1. Contest as Ceremony: A Pre-Islamic Poetic Contest in Horse Description of Imru' al-Qays vs. 'Alqamah al-Fahl
- Ch. 2. Remedy and Resolution: Bees and Honey-Gathering in Two Hudhali Odes
- Ch. 3. Reality and Reverie: Wine and Ekphrasis in the 'Abbasid Poetry of Abu Nuwas and al-Buhturi
- Ch. 4. Sensibility and Synaesthesia: Ibn al-Rumi's Singing Slave-Girl
- Ch. 5. Poetry and Portraiture: A Double Portrait in a Panegyric / Ibn Zamrak.