Warfare and poetry in the Middle East. (2013)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Hugh Kennedy.
• Other Names: Kennedy, Hugh (Hugh N.)
• Contents: Contributors; Preface; Introduction; 1. 'O City Set Up Thy Lament': Poetic Responses to the Trauma of War; 2. The Poem of Erra and Ishum: A Babylonian Poet's View of War; 3. Poetry and War among the Hittites; 4. Warfare in ancient Egyptian Poetry; 5. Poetry and the Early Islamic Historical Tradition: Poetry and Narratives of the Battle of Siffin; 6. Pity and Defiance in the Poetry of the Siege of Baghdad (197/813); 7. Silenced Cultural Encounters in Poetry of War; 8. Courage and Eloquence: 'Antar, the Warrior-Poet of the siyar. 9. 'If only al-Barraq could see ... ': Violence and Voyeurism in an Early Modern Reformulation of the Pre-Islamic Call to Arms10. 'I am a civil war': The Poetry of Haim Gouri; 11. Humanism, Nationalism and Violence in Mahmoud Darwish's Poetry; Index.
• Publisher Details: London New York : I.B. Tauris Distributed in the United States and Canada exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2013
• Extent: 1 online resource (xviii, 286 pages)
• Subjects: 809/.93358; War in literature; Middle Eastern poetry -- History and criticism; Literary form; Middle Eastern poetry -- History and criticism; War in literature; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary; Middle Eastern poetry; War in literature; Electronic books; Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780857722942; 0857722948; 9781306069700
• Related ISBNs: 130606970X; 9781780763620; 178076362X
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
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