Allegories of Ruin: Architecture and Knowledge in Early Arabic Poetry.
This study examines the architectural lexicon (ṭalal, dār, rasm, bayt) of early Arabic poetry, interrogating the relation between built and linguistic form in the nasīb. I argue that the interpenetration of the aṭlāl and khayāl motifs and of other structural elements of the qaṣīdah allegorizes the f...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Arabic Literature Vol. 50; no. 2; pp. 89 - 123 |
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Brill Academic Publishers
Jul2019
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