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The metamorphic vision:

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The metamorphic vision:

[Thesis]

Teirab AshShareef

The poetics of time and history in the work of Adunis ('Ali Ahmad Sa'id)

S. J. Altoma

Indiana University

1988

209-209 p.

Ph.D.

Indiana University

1988

This dissertation studies the treatment of the human experience of time and history in the whole corpus of the work of the contemporary Arab poet Adunis ('Ali Ahmad Sa'id) (b. 1930): in his poetry as well as his poetic theory and cultural criticism. The dissertation comprises an introduction, four chapters, a conclusion and a bibliography. The introduction includes a section of Adunis's intellectual development, and a summary of the study. Chapter One discusses the treatment of mythical time in Adunis's poetry of the early phase. This is the trans-historical time of the myths of regeneration and renewal. Chapter Two discusses the conception of time in Adunis's cultural criticism. It examines his poetics of Arab culture which, in effect, is a critique of what he views as the cultural paradigms obtaining in that culture's past and present. The poet's alternative project for solving the dilemma these paradigms have created in contemporary Arab culture is also tackled here. Chaper Three discusses Adunis's conception of poetic time. His critique of the Arabic poetic tradition is discussed as well as his conception of time in his poetic theory. Chapter Four explores the treatment of historical time and its tripartite division into past, present and future in Adunis's poetry of the second and third phases. This includes the poet's vision of historical time and his invocation of historical personages. This dissertation concludes that Adunis's poetics of time and history in Arab-Islamic culture is a plea for pluralism. It is an attempt at transcending the monolithic perception of that culture, at a re-writing of its cultural and literary history, and at a recanonization. This Adunis does by the decentering of the cultural production of the hegemonic center, what he calls "al-thabit" (the static), and the centering of the cultural production of the margin, what he calls "al-mutahawwil" (the dynamic). The study also concludes that Adunis's theory of the time of poetic creativity is a secularized amalgam of Sufi and Shi'ite conceptions of time.

Language, literature and linguistics

Literature

Middle Eastern literature

Middle Eastern literature

S. J. Altoma

Teirab AshShareef

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[Thesis]

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