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Description in classical Arabic poetry

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This work deals with ""wasf"" or description which is one of the salient characteristics of the ""qasidah"" (classical Arabic poetry) tradition. It examines descriptive passages in a selected group of Arabic ""qasidah"" from different ages, with the motifs of horses, and bees and honey-gathering.

Title Description in classical Arabic poetry : waṣf, ekphrasis, and interarts theory / Akiko Motoyoshi Sumi.
Edition 1st ed.
Publisher Leiden
Boston : Brill
Creation Date 2003
Notes Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
English
Content Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
A Note on Translation and Transliteration
Introduction
Chapter One: Contest as Ceremony: A Pre-Islamic Poetic Contest in Horse Description of Imru' al-Qays vs. 'Alqamahal-Fahl
Chapter Two: Remedy and Resolution: Bees and Honey-Gathering in Two Hudhalī Odes
Chapter Three: Reality and Reverie: Wine and Ekphrasis in the 'Abbāsid Poetry of Abu Nuwās and al-Buhturī
Chapter Four: Sensibility and Synaesthesia: Ibn al-Rumī's Singing Slave-Girl
Chapter Five: Poetry and Portraiture: A Double Portrait in a Panegyric
Conclusion
Appendix of Arabic Texts
Works Cited
Index
Extent 1 online resource (xvi, 251 pages, 3 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations
Language English
National Library system number 997010703782305171
MARC RECORDS
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