Abstract
This article deals with various functions of the title of Darwīsh’s collection Why Have You Left the Horse Alone in three different contexts: as an independent and separate text; in relation to the poem in which it originally appeared; and in relation to all the poems in the collection. Our case discussion shows that the interpretation of the title means in fact a discussion of the entire text, or rather of all these texts. It also shows that the question/title has equally informative, rhetorical, provocative, and communicative facets, and as such our discussion grants it great summarizing and representational power. When all this power is given to the title as pre-text, it in essence also makes the title a post-text.
Highlights
This article deals with various functions of the title of Darw3sh’s collection Why Have You Left the Horse Alone in three different contexts: as an independent and separate text; in relation to the poem in which it originally appeared; and in relation to all the poems in the collection
It shows that the question/title has informative, rhetorical, provocative, and communicative facets, and as such our discussion grants it great summarizing and representational power
When this biography is the biography of an entire people somehow represented by the author, we are dealing with external reference, which may be discussed in general historical terms
Summary
This article deals with various functions of the title of Darw3sh’s collection Why Have You Left the Horse Alone in three different contexts: as an independent and separate text; in relation to the poem in which it originally appeared; and in relation to all the poems in the collection. The title as an independent text: First reading In opening the discussion of the dynamics of the title of a collection of poems, Li-m¢adh¢a tarakta l-−hiâ¢an wa−h3dan (Why have you left the horse alone) by Ma−hm¢ud Darw3sh,10 we shall refer to the semantic status of each word composing the title.
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