(The) poetics of ancient and classical Arabic literature : Orientology

목차 (Table of Contents)

• CONTENTS
• Preliminary considerations = xiii
• Preface to the English-language edition = xxx
• About the author = xxxiii
• Introduction = 1
• 1 Poetics of the Arabesque = 4
• 2 The deductive poetics of the Qur'an = 21
• Intertextuality and contextualisation = 21
• 3 The Qur'anic Text's advance on tradition = 29
• The Qur'an confronting poetry at the level of ideology = 30
• The Qur'an confronting poetry at the level of form = 53
• 4 The simile in Old Arabic poetry : a world at a distance = 87
• Prologue : the realism or "materialism" of Old Arabic poetry = 87
• Figures of description and the profusion of themes in poems = 88
• Obviousness and transparency of the world and the necessity of distance = 92
• Segmentation of textual space = 95
• Gradation of textual time = 99
• Concentration on the flatness of the physical = 103
• Typicality before description = 107
• Constituents of the simile as architects of positivity = 111
• The simile and the travelogue airiness of the world = 113
• 5 The Qur'anic metaphor : the world within = 118
• Descent of the metaphor into the world and the metaphoric revolution = 118
• The Text unveiled in language and stylistics = 123
• Realism of the simile and transfer of the metaphor : poet's belle and houris in Jannah = 129
• Past time of the simile and processuality of the metaphor = 136
• Transparency of the world in the simile and the metaphoric vertical world order = 142
• The simile undertaking segmentation and centripetal forces of the metaphor = 145
• 6 Maturation of post-Qur'anic poetics and literary tradition = 149
• Normative poetics and the difficulty of literature periodisation = 150
• The Qur'anic text as a generator of changes in tradition = 154
• Philology as impetus and a trap = 158
• Philology : text's authenticity and author's originality = 164
• The authority of philology and Shu'ubiyyah = 169
• Tradition as a reservoir of motifs and poetic technique = 170
• Poetic theme not necessarily sublime = 174
• The origin of poetic motifs in Arabic antiquity = 179
• Motifs as commonplaces or topoi = 183
• Triumph of philological poetics : spreading across the entire Islamic cultural community = 186
• Form as a technique or philotechnic poetry = 192
• Prevalence of artistic form and the servility of criticism = 196
• Poetic inspiration and technique = 201
• Universalism of philological poetics : tradition as inspiration = 202
• A reservoir of motifs and the legalisation of "literary theft" = 207
• The artistically beautiful and literary theft : contrasting the sacred text and poetry = 215
• Isolation of tradition : the lack of influence of Aristotle's poetics = 219
• The dawn of a new age = 227
• Bibliography = 238
• Further reading = 246
• Name index = 248
• Subject index = 251