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The book comprehensively examines the Sh‘ir magazine published in Beirut (1957-1964; 1967-1969). The magazine’s editors sought to generate a profound change in the role and form of Arabic poetry as a tool to support a significant leap forward in the Arab thinking and writing. The book traces the mechanism of development of the magazine’s content and the thinking of its main editors, through in-depth textual analysis of the three main branches of the magazine’s content: translated poetry, original Arabic poetry, and articles of literary criticism. Each of these branches is accompanied by a complete appendix of relevant items. The analysis revals the significant role that Sh‘ir played in enabling a new kind of secular and personal poetics, including that of prose-poetry and vision poems.

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Basilius Bawardi‘s (Senior Lecturer at the Dept. of Arabic, Bar-Ilan University, Israel) interdisciplinary reasearch focuses on modern Arabic literature from the 19th century on, especially the link between ideology and literature, and the emergence of new genres, and Arabic detective writing.

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