Reorientations :  Arabic and Persian poetry /  [print] 
edited by Suzanne Pinckney Stetkevych. 
 - Bloomington :  Indiana University Press,  (c)1994. 
 - x, 269 pages ;  25 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographies and index. 
<br/><br/>Pre-Islamic panegyric and the poetics of redemption : Mufaddaliyah 119 of Alqmah and Banat Suad of Kab ibn Zuhayr  Toward an Arabic elegiac lexicon : the seven words of Nasib  Guises of the Ghul : dissembling simile and semantic overflow in the classical Arabic Nasib  The earliest demon lover  : the Tayf al-Khayal in al-Mufaddaliyat  Suzanne Pinckney Stetkevych --  Jaroslav Stetkevych --  Micael A. Sells -- "No solace for the heart" : the motif of the departing women in the pre- Islamic battle ode  Hassan El-Banna Ezz El-Din --  John Seybold -- "Tangled words" : toward a stylistics of Arabic mystical verse  Th. Emil Homerin (Contents, con't.) The rise and fall of a Persian refrain : the Radif "Atash u Ab" / Franklin D. Lewis -- "The allusive field of drunkenness" : three safavid-Moghul responses to a lyric by Bab Fighani  Paul E. Losensky. 
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<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>93006900 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Arabic poetry--History and criticism.<br/>Persian poetry--History and criticism.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PJ7541.S841.R467 1994