Concepts of poetics ؛ introduction : the arabs input into poetics
تاريخ النشر: 30/07/2025
الناشر: الجامعة الأميركية في بيروت
نبذة الناشر:This book was written in the 1990s, and has been hailed as a key reference for 'poetics' ever since. It came to address a gap in the study of this subject in the Arabic modernist criticism, following Adonis' short version Arabic Poetics (1985), and Abu Dib's On Poetics (1987). It ...proved to be an invaluable source for subsequent studies of poetics due to its systematic diachronic survey of theories from Aristotle to the Reception Theories of the late 20th century. It played a leading role in stabilising the term "ash-shiriyyah" araul as an equivalent to
'poetics'
, ending a controversy over its terminology in the Arabic tradition. However, its main significance lies in the survey it provides for the Arabs' input into the realm of poetics, with unprecedented critique of their theories. To this end, it delves into the Arabic heritage introducing the forerunners of poetics, and continuing that with a critique of contemporary contributions. Knowing it was by virtue of the Arabs' translations from Arabic into Latin (by Averroes from a version translated by Abu Bish Matta Ibn Yunus' from Syriac into Arabic in Dar al-Hikmah of the Golden Islamic Age) that Aristotle's 'Poetics' was placed back to the West at the dawn of the Renaissance, it becomes necessary to be more attentive to our Arabic
Thankfully, the book is and has been adopted as a textbook in several universities of the Arab world إقرأ المزيد