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Seminar
SoSe 16: Helden, Räuber, Totenklagen: die vorislamische Dichtung
Colinda Lindermann
Comments
This course offers an introduction to form and content of ancient Arabic poetry and to modern scholarship on this topic. By reading selected poems in Arabic and in translation, form, subject matter, genre, transmission and interpretation of the qaṣīda will be discussed with special reference to brigand poetry and elegy. Reading, discussion and presentation of secondary sources will provide an insight into modern approaches to pre-islamic poetry. In preparation for this course students may want to read the following introductions: Renate Jacobi: Die altarabische Dichtung (6.-7. Jh.), in: GAP, vol. 2, 20-31, and Ewald Wagner: Grundzüge der klassischen arabischen Dichtung, vol. 1: Die altarabische Dichtung, Darmstadt 1987.
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Suggested reading
Zur Vorbereitung auf den Kurs empfiehlt sich die Lektüre folgender Einführungen:
Renate Jacobi: Die altarabische Dichtung (6.-7. Jh.), in: GAP, Bd. 2, 20-31 sowie Ewald Wagner: Grundzüge der klassischen arabischen Dichtung, Bd. 1: Die altarabische Dichtung, Darmstadt 1987. close
14 Class schedule
Regular appointments
Tue, 2016-04-19 12:00 - 14:00
Tue, 2016-04-26 12:00 - 14:00
Tue, 2016-05-03 12:00 - 14:00
Tue, 2016-05-10 12:00 - 14:00
Tue, 2016-05-17 12:00 - 14:00
Tue, 2016-05-24 12:00 - 14:00
Tue, 2016-05-31 12:00 - 14:00
Tue, 2016-06-07 12:00 - 14:00
Tue, 2016-06-14 12:00 - 14:00
Tue, 2016-06-21 12:00 - 14:00
Tue, 2016-06-28 12:00 - 14:00
Tue, 2016-07-05 12:00 - 14:00
Tue, 2016-07-12 12:00 - 14:00
Tue, 2016-07-19 12:00 - 14:00