دانلود کتاب Medieval Arabic Praise Poetry Ibn Al-Rumi and the Patron's Redemption

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Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Note on quotes and translations
Note on transliteration and dating
Glossary
Part I: Setting the stage
1. The background: Poetry and poets in early Abbasid society
The audience
The patrons
The poets
2. The form: The Abbasid praise qasīda
History of research
The textual approach
The intertextual approach
The contextual approach
Constraint and variety
3. The approach: Madīh and pragmatics
Literary speech situation (context) and genre
The criteria and types of poetic dialogue. Excursus into the theory of speech actsCharacterization, dramaturgy, poetic argument, and ethics
4. The protagonists: Ibn al-Rūmī and his patron \'Ubaydallāh b. \'Abdallāh
5. The madīh exchanged between Ibn al-Rūmī and \'Ubaydallāh
The practice of praise
A note on the textual sources
Themes of the Qasā\'id
The strophe
The antistrophe
The metastrophe
The speech acts of praise
Part II: Speech and characterization
6. Speech as action
Speech of humans
Speech figuratively attributed to inanimate objects and abstract concepts
Figurative reinterpretation of verbal acts. 7. The dramatis personaeFictional personae
The accuser
White hair
Youth
Minor fictional personae
Historical personae
The patron
The poet
Part III: The dramaturgy
8. The scene
The dialogue scene
The extended dialogue scene
The unintroduced dialogue
The address
The evocation
The monologue
The implicit and impersonal speaker
9. The episode and its witnesses
Witnesses speaking or addressed in the episode
Witnesses quoted in the episode
10. \'The passion of him whose parting has grayed is affectation\' (L191)
11. \'They aimed at my heart from the gaps of veils\' (L1042). Part IV: Verbal ornament12. Supporting figures of speech
Syntactic figures
Anaphora
Reprise
Semantic figures
Sententia and analogy
The recurring motif
13. Phantasmagoria
Part V: Ibn al-Rūmī\'s ethics of patronage
14. In the mirror of madīh
The scenes between poet and patron
The historical relationship
The function of the poem
15. Mutual duties and rights of benefactor and protégé
Examples of scenes: A1160, F1243, and A1510
First example
Second example
Third example
16. Acts and words between panegyrist and model
Acts and words, their order and congruity. The praise matches the actsThe praise cannot live up to the acts
The acts themselves compose praise through causal hyperbole
The acts claim ancient praise and re-attribute it to the patron
Praise precedes the acts
Examples of scenes: A694, F1373\', A464/F1373\', and A1171/A212/L215
The acts precede the praise, and the praise matches them
The praise cannot live up to the acts
The acts themselves compose praise through causal hyperbole
The acts claim ancient praise and re-attribute it to \'Ubaydallāh
Praise preceding acts and not yet redeemed
Recapitulation.