ʿAbdallāh ibn Sbayyil 
Arabian Romantic [PDF ebook] 
Poems on Bedouin Life and Love

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Scenes from Arabian life at the turn of the twentieth century
Arabian Romantic captures what it was like to live in central Arabia before the imposition of austere norms by the Wahhabi authorities in the early twentieth century: tales of robbery and hot pursuit; perilous desert crossings; scenes of exhaustion and chaos when water is raised from deep wells under harsh conditions; the distress of wounded and worn-out animals on the brink of perdition; once proud warriors who are at the mercy of their enemy on the field of battle. Such images lend poignancy to the suffering of the poet’s love-stricken heart, while also painting a vivid portrait of typical Bedouin life.
Ibn Sbayyil, a town dweller from the Najd region of the Arabian Peninsula, was a key figure in the Nabaṭī poetic tradition. His poetry, which is still recited today, broke with the artifice of the preceding generation by combining inherited idiom and original touches reflecting his environment. Translated into English for the first time by Marcel Kurpershoek, Arabian Romantic will delight readers with a poetry that is direct, fluent, and expressive, and that has entertained Arabic speakers for over a century.
An English-only edition.

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Annmarie Drury is Associate Professor in the Department of English at Queens College, CUNY. She is the author of Translation as Transformation in Victorian Poetry and is a translator of Swahili poetry.

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Lingua Inglese ● Formato PDF ● ISBN 9781479804382 ● Dimensione 1.7 MB ● Traduttore Marcel Kurpershoek ● Casa editrice NYU Press ● Paese US ● Pubblicato 2020 ● Scaricabile 24 mesi ● Moneta EUR ● ID 7444317 ● Protezione dalla copia Adobe DRM
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