عنوان

The Redemptive Act and Poetic Identity in the Work of Suliman Alfulayeh, Jasim Alsḥayeh, and Abdulrahman Alashmawy

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TLpq2476892261

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انگلیسی

Title Proper

The Redemptive Act and Poetic Identity in the Work of Suliman Alfulayeh, Jasim Alsḥayeh, and Abdulrahman Alashmawy

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[Thesis]

First Statement of Responsibility

Alotaibi, Abdullah

Subsequent Statement of Responsibility

Alsaleh, Asaad

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Indiana University

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2020

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

176

Dissertation or thesis details and type of degree

Ph.D.

Body granting the degree

Indiana University

Text preceding or following the note

2020

Text of Note

This dissertation applies a pragmatic analysis to examine poetry by three modern committed poets: Suliman Alfulayeh, Jasim Alsḥayeh, and Abdulrahman Alashmawy. This study approaches modern committed poetry from a critical standpoint and evaluates poems as allegories that present a redeemed identity and negotiate social roles. I use Arabic and Western pragmatic and cultural theories such as Kenneth Burke's rhetorical criticism to uncover the psychosocial function (the redemption act), rhetoric of persuasion, poetic practice, and construction of poetic identities. The main purpose of this assessment is to use several contemporary ideas and related theories to offer an understanding of: 1) the ways in which these committed poets find redemption in poetry, 2) how they persuade and affect the attitude of the reader, 3) the way they sustain or change their poetic identities through writing, and 4) how they use poetry to express what cannot otherwise be said. I focus on elucidating the intricacies of traditional Arabic poetry and its characters as a method of negotiating poetic identity and claiming authenticity. This study demonstrates how poetic role and identity require rhetorical persuasion based on a preconceived poetic culture, mainly through the reference to powerful forebears or their culture to present a poetic lineage and promote the poem. Examination of the various texts presents poetry as a living form of culture that can be used in an effort to seek redemption from individual and collective guilt. I offer this study as an investigation of the personal and social role of modern Arabic committed poetry without romanticization of poetic alienation and commitment.

Comparative literature

Middle Eastern literature

Middle Eastern studies

Alotaibi, Abdullah

Alsaleh, Asaad

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[Thesis]

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