Arabic Poetry And Orientalism

This volume brings together two early and important studies that go to the very heart of the relationship between western poetics and Arabic poetry. Jaroslav Stekevych, the author of these studies and an eminent Arabist, shows that at the root of the endeavors of the romantic generation of western Arabists in the 18th and 19th centuries was a definite mission to enrich their own national literatures and to contribute to the creative processes in their own cultures from the artistic and cognitive components of Arabic poetry. Stetkevych shows that this vital literary interaction has been lost and confronts the question of why this has happened. English and Arabic text.Stetkevych, Jaroslav is the author of 'Arabic Poetry And Orientalism', published 2004 under ISBN 9780954497514 and ISBN 0954497511.