City of Beginnings: Poetic Modernism in Beirut

(Part of the Translation/Transnation Series)

by Robyn Creswell

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How poetic modernism shaped Arabic intellectual debates in the twentieth century and beyond

City of Beginnings is an exploration of modernism in Arabic poetry, a movement that emerged in Beirut during the 1950s and became the most influential and controversial Arabic literary development of the twentieth century. Robyn Creswell introduces English-language readers to a poetic movement that will be uncannily familiar--and unsettlingly...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0691182183

ISBN13:9780691182186

Release Date:January 2019

Publisher:Princeton University Press

Length:272 Pages

Weight:1.25 lbs.

Dimensions:1.1" x 6.4" x 9.3"

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