COVER; HALF TITLE; TITLE PAGE; COPYRIGHT; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; NOTE ON TRANSLITERATION; Introduction; PART I: The Heroic and the Anti-Heroic in the Early Arabic Ode; CHAPTER 1: The Hunt in the Pre-Islamic Ode; CHAPTER 2: The Hunt in the Ode at the Close of the Archaic Period; CHAPTER 3: Sacrifice and Redemption; PART II: The Hunt Poem as Lyric Genre in Classical Arabic Poetry; CHAPTER 4: The Discreet Pleasures of the Courtly Hunt; CHAPTER 5: From Description to Imagism; CHAPTER 6: Breakthrough into Lyricism; CHAPTER 7: From Lyric to Narrative; PART III: Modernism and Metapoesis
CHAPTER 8: The Modernist Hunt Poem in 'Abd al-Wahhāb al-Bayātī and Aḥmad 'Abd al-Mu'ṭī ḤijāzīCHAPTER 9: The Metapoetic Hunt of Muḥammad 'Afīfī Maṭar; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX
