THE BLUE ROSE AT TWILIGHT
ON MODERN ARABIC VERSE
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About the Book
The Blue Rose at Twilight is a mongraph to explore the Arabic Verse in its modern trends.It intends to invetigate the modern poetic experiences as represented by five major poets: Nizar Kabbani( Syria), Unsi al-Haj ( Lebanon), Yasin T. Hafiz ( Iraq), Mahmoud Darwish ( palestine), and Ali J. al- Allaq ( Iraq). Being a universal phenomenon, the poetic image in these experiments is approached by the so-called Aesthetic-cultural Approach, a crtical means that links the cultural patterns of meaning to the aesthetic structure of the poem.
About the Author
SAMIR AL-SHEIKH( critic, poet, translator) is Assist. Prof. of poetry at the University of Misan, Iraq. He is the author of the published books: The watery Poems , Stylistic Studies in Nizar Kabbani's Poetry(2008), Culture and Transaltion: Papers on Transaltion(2010), Roses and Ashes( poetic volume)(2010) and Transformations of the Sunflower: On Poetic Discourse(2011).Additionally, Al-Sheikh is the head of English Department, College of Efucation, and a Student Advisor for the Iraqi students who intend to study at U.S. universities. He participeted in the International Visitor Leadership Program in the U.S. in 2009.