TY - BOOK AU - Hammond,Marlé. AU - Sajdi,Dana AU - Allen,Roger AU - Amin,Dina AU - Beard,Michael AU - Decter,Jonathan P. AU - Elinson,Alexander AU - Hamori,Andras AU - Hatem,Mervat AU - Heinrichs,Wolfhart TI - Transforming Loss into Beauty: Essays on Arabic Literature and Culture in Honor of Magda Al-Nowaihi SN - 9781936190256 AV - PJ7507 -- .T73 2008eb U1 - 892.736 PY - 1900/// CY - Cairo PB - American University in Cairo Press KW - Al-Nowaihi, Magda M KW - Arabic literature KW - Electronic books N1 - Intro -- Contents -- Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Elegy and the Confrontation of Death in Arabic Poetry -- One Size Fits All -- Notes On Abu Tammam's Elegy Kadha fa- l- yajilla l- khatbu -- Dead Garments, Poor Nobles, and a Handsome Youth: Notes on a Poem by al- Sanawbari -- Loss Written in Stone: Ibn Shuhayd's Ritha' for Cordoba and Its Place in the Arabic Elegiac Tradition -- Arabic Poetics and Representations of Women in the Andalusian Hebrew Lament -- Qasida, Marthiya, and Différance -- Revisiting Layla al-Akhyaliya's Trespass -- Writing About Life Through Loss: ' A'isha Taymur's Elegies and the Subversion of the Arabic Canon -- Sleep in Peace: Salah ' Abd Al-Sabur's Gentle Elegy on the Death of a Hero -- Historiography as Novel: Bensalem Himmich's al-' Allama -- Sonallah Ibrahim's Les années de Zeth, or The Exportability of Contemporary Arabic Literature -- Tawfiq al-Hakim, Yusuf al-Qa'id, and the ' Mature' Arabic Novel -- The Anti-Romance Antidote: Revisiting Allegories of the Nation* -- Self-Portraits of the Other: Toward a Palestinian Poetics of Hebrew Verse* -- A List of Magda Al-Nowaihi's Publications UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=3114739 ER -