جماليات التحليل الثقافي : الثنائيات الضدية في ضادية عمارة بن عقيل

Abstract EN

This paper examines the application of cultural analysis approach on Arabic poetry, highlighting its points of strength and weakness.

It starts with a theoretical framework explaining the principles of cultural reading of literary texts and then analyses a poem by ʿUmāra, chosen because it contains an unusual amount of antithetical binaries at word level, construction and ideas.

The aims of the cultural analysis in this paper is to discover the polysystems of the text, to explore the limits of this approach as well as its analytical and hermeneutical potentials and to show its shortcomings.

Amongst the findings is that using antithetical binaries was a suitable technique, which served ʿUmāra's porpuse of highlighting paradoxes of his time.