Description: Acknowledgments Preface 1. Arabic Lyricism and Its Structure: The Nasib within the Qasidah 1. The Poem as Rhetorical and Epideictic Strategy 2. Ut Musica Poesis: The Qasidah as Sonata--The Nasib as Sonata Form 3. Toward the Ternary Archetype 2. The Nasib: From Archaic Tears to Spiritual Pilgrimages 1. The Tolerance of the Archaic Vision 2. The Freeing of the Metaphor: Hassan Ibn Thabit 3. Toward the Courtly Idyll with Abu al-'Atahiyah 4. The Stylizing Imagination: Silences and Voices of the Desert from Dhu al-Rummah to Ibn Khafajah 5. The Delicate Balancing of a Stubborn Structure: Ibn al-Farid 3. Names, Privileged Places, Idylls 1. When Toponymy Becomes Poetry 2. Najd and Arcadia: The Topology of Nostalgia 4. Meadows in the Sky 1. Of Pastors and Their Dreams: A Digression into Common Grounds 2. Toward a Cosmic Pastoral Space 5. In Search of the Garden 1. On the Perhiphery of Autochthony 2. Spaces of Delight: Perceived, Lost, Remembered Appendix of Arabic Texts Notes Bibliography Index

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