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"Exciting and vital to the unearthing of new trajectories for the Arabic literary tradition . . . [Antoon's book] is a timely and uplifting work, which must be taken seriously and built upon." - Journal of the Society for Contemporary Thought and the Islamicate World
'Sinan Antoon is among the few scholars who in recent years have embarked on the unprejudiced study of what in Arabic is called muj?n or sukhf. It is not surprising that until recently in the West, and still in most Islamic countries, the study of obscenity and scatology was hampered by moral and religious scruples, aided by aesthetic prejudice. This makes the present study all the more welcome and important. Scholarly and thorough, it is also readable (if one can stomach the poems with their unstoppable outpouring of filth), written in an accessible style, neither marred by the excessive use of jargon nor suffering from being clothed in a straightjacket of Theory. The numerous translations of poems are reliable and accompanied by the Arabic text in transliteration.' - Geert Jan van Gelder, Laudian Professor of Arabic, University of Oxford, UK
"This groundbreaking study opens up for the first time an important and fascinating, but heretofore studiously avoided, aspect of classical Arabic literature." - Everett K. Rowson, Associate Professor of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, New York University, USA
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Book Title: The Poetics of the Obscene in Premodern Arabic Poetry
Book Subtitle: Ibn al-?ajj?j and Sukhf
Authors: Sinan Antoon
Series Title: Literatures and Cultures of the Islamic World
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137391780
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Sinan Antoon 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-30153-6Published: 27 February 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-45361-0Published: 27 February 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-39178-0Published: 27 February 2014
Series ISSN: 2945-705X
Series E-ISSN: 2945-7068
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 224
Topics: Middle Eastern Culture, Poetry and Poetics, Literature, general, Literary History, Middle Eastern Literature