| #2337888 in Books | 2010-12-30 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 6.40 x.80 x9.30l,1.05 | File type: PDF | 224 pages||About the Author|Dr. Marle Hammond is British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Oxford.
This volume tackles complex theoretical questions about sex and gender and the way that they inform classical Arabic poetics. Arabic literature has a rich tradition of women's poetry, and of lamentation for the dead in particular. Dr Hammond argues that these elegies - marthiya - were received into the literary canon because they echoed the familiar male paradigm of the qas?da, or the heroic ode, while at the same time recasting its spatial and temporal axes from a ...
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