Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction. Modernism in Translation 1
5. Chapter 1. Lebanon and Late Modernism 21
6. Chapter 2. The Genealogy of Arabic Modernism 52
7. Chapter 3. Figuration and Disfiguration in The Songs of Mihyar the Damascene 94
8. Chapter 4. The Origins of the Arabic Prose Poem 121
9. Chapter 5. The Countercanon: Adonis’s Anthology of Arabic Poetry 147
10. Chapter 6. “He Sang New Sorrow”: Adonis and the Modernist Elegy 169
11. Epilogue. Tehran 1979–Damascus 2011 189
12. Notes 203
13. Selected Bibliography 241
14. Index 251
15. Translation / Transnation 261