The objective of this book is therefore a double one: to radicalize Egyptological method through the deployment of Arabic literary and critical methods, and to refresh the study of ancient Egyptian and Arabic poetics. Finally, this chapter traces the French and English source texts and investigates their influence on the poetic and literary works in the magazine, which indicates, as we shall see, the dominance of the cultural atmosphere of these texts over the literary and cultural direction of the magazine.

In The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, edited by Roland Greene and Stephen Cushman, 62-64. He impressively explores the intersection between the visual and verbal layers and sheds new light in re-evaluating the ‘visual literariness’ of ancient Egyptian writing. However, the Arab cultural project has constantly been led by the religious branch of its culture, and therefore, the creative and linguistic processes have always moved within this frame.

Chapter Three : Majallat Shi‘r and Arab Poetics: Towards the Poem of Revelation (Kashf) and Vision (Ru‘yā). Richard Bussmann, University of Cologne {"}Hany Rashwan's study opens a new window on ancient Egyptian literature. The book is the only work fully dedicated to carry out analyses, critical evaluations, and developed taxonomy of the Arabic literary device jinās ; one of the most important literary devices present throughout medieval and modern Arabic poetry, literary prose, songs, and proverbs.

Particularly striking is the manner in which his work treats the pictographic quality of the script as one additional semantic layer that operates in tandem with the rhetorical devices that function at the linguistic level.Rebecca Gould, University of Birmingham {"}At last my haunting desire to see a good study on analogies between ancient Egyptian and Arabic literary sensibilities and taste has been fulfilled. The series Studies in Arabic Literature, Supplements to the Journal of Arabic Litrature, founded in 1971, is concerned with all kinds of literary expression in Arabic, including the oral and vernacular traditions, of both the modern and the classical periods.

Harb also downplays balāghah’s rhetorical concerns, limiting it only to the function of poetics despite balāghah being defined in terms of persuasion, as knowing the corresponding states of speech to their appropriate contexts (xiii, 255). A comprehensive work of classical Arabic philology and a beautifully written study of the art of literary criticism. It is in these aspects of linguistic expression that an aesthetic theory of wonder can be uncovered in the classical Arabic critical tradition, including in discussions of poetry proper, engagements with Aristotelian Poetics, and works on eloquence and the miraculousness (iʿjāz) of the Quran, culminating by the thirteenth century in the formalized study of eloquence in ʿilm al-balāgha (the science of eloquence). The book has much to offer in the way of insights for the understanding and interpretation of Egyptian textual material.Anyone interested in understanding how poetry, eloquent speech, and the Quran evoke wonder should read this book. Rediscovering Ancient Egyptian Literature through Arabic Poetics offers a groundbreaking postcolonial perspective on Egyptological method and theory by challenging the use of Eurocentric literary theories, terms, and concepts, and refreshing the study of ancient Egyptian and Arabic poetics. However, there is enough to indicate that some serious connections can be made an aesthetic of wonder and Sufi philosophical concepts.

The book amply deconstructs the long-established hypothesis that differentiates between literary and non-literary texts based on our modern comprehension of literary genres. I point out the efforts to change the poetic concept from its superficial descriptive horizontality into a deep verticality concerned with the spiritual dimensions of Man. Through this, hair is explored as a semiotic code that inheres the tension between grammar and ungrammaticality, reason and madness, imitation and originality in literary works, and relate this tension to the inexorable connection between poetry and madness in the Arabic literary imaginary. Peering over an insurmountable mountain may evoke feelings of grandeur and awe; the occurrence of an unexpected and favorable coincidence may result in the feeling of utter joy; or the loss of a loved one in unbearable grief. However, both use the same subjective standard of aesthetics that evaluates poetry through extrinsic concerns.

In the classical period, poetry and prose reached a high level of refinement and attained standards which are still being applied in the modern Arab world today. The discussion of the ways in which pre-modern Arabic writings visualize the body in action at moments of creativity will be anchored in Kitāb al-aghānī’s description of Jarīr on the night he composed one of his most famous satires. N2 - A groundbreaking study of the relationship between ancient Egyptian literary devices and their Arabic counterparts. Unlike simile, which evokes wonder through the discovery of relations, these figures evoke wonder through the way they signify meanings in an indirect manner, leading to the same process of discovery and pleasure (172).