Aesthetics of Cultural Patterns in the Poetry Of Ibn Daraj Al-Qastali "Foreignness and Alienation as an Example"

Abstract

This study does not view "foreignness and alienation" as a journey, travel, and pain. Rather, it is trying, procedurally, to reveal their potentials, and the cultural patterns within them, through which it asserts that the aesthetic is a cultural subject in the interior of Andalusian poetic texts. For this reason, I turned to the poetry of Ibn Darraj Al-Qastali, the Andalusian poet who wandered in Andalusia and spent his life moving from one place to another with a desire for a safe place for his life; and in search of a better standard for his family’s life.  This approach entrusted me to search for a deep level in the poetic text, and to interpret what it contains of meanings and cultural dimensions, expressing the poet's vision, and the nature of his thinking towards the other, place, time, society, life ... etc. The research came in a theoretical introduction, in which I talked about cultural criticism and the pattern formation in the poetic text, and in an analytical aspect, among the following topics:

First -  The praising and the praised in which the researcher clarified the relationship between the poet and the praised. I  depend on central and marginal dualism.

Second - The ambitious "ego" and the female counter-culture, in which the "ego" culture, the female image, and the nature of its appearance in the Andalusian poetic text are evident.

Third - the transformations of the place and the patterns of steadfastness, where I dealt with the relationship between the poet and the place.