City of Beginnings: Poetic Modernism in Beirut

by Robyn Creswell

Book Overview

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"