THE BLUE ROSE AT TWILIGHT
ON MODERN ARABIC VERSE
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The Blue Rose at Twilight, being a title, is likely to suggest that in spite of the crisis of the world, the world of tragic wars, violence, and attrocity, there still blooms poetry as the eternal destiny of mankind.All the nations sail on one Arc, i.e. humanity, and poetry remains its everlasting shared star. Art, in general, and potry in specific, is the rosy urn by which we keep our aesthrtic-cultural sensibility ti improve our species as humans.Poetry, moreover, is essential as par excellence of the linguistic network system. The human value of art springs from the aestheic demand when demand itself becomes a matter of cultural experienxe.Culture and Aesthetics, in our perception, are inseperable. They are two fecets of one phenomenon, i.e. universal truth.The Blue Rose at Twilight, therefore, is an endeavour to explore Modern Arabic Vers in its aesthetic- cultural trends.
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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.