Document Type : Research Paper
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Literary texts in general acquire the characteristic of encyclopedism due to the availability of diverse and absent inputs in their contexts, whether they are traditional or contemporary. They harmonize with each other within an interactive relationship that achieves mutual benefit between both parties. The absent is revived in the present (the new text), which is strengthened to achieve the intellectual integration due to the absent. This is the basis of intertextual studies, which follow up the missing texts seated in the structure of the present text. Moreover, observing how they are localized in it, the nature of their presence, their purpose for existing, and their impact on its construction, consolidation, and even completion.
This study aims to investigate the patterns of poetic presence in the prose of Ibn Hujjah al-Hamawi, represented by selected examples from his letters found in his book "Qahwat Al-Insha", through a temporally framed intertextual study that begins with the Seljuk era and ends with the Mamluk era, which represents the era of the author himself. It clarifies the patterns of poetic presence from a temporal perspective, manifested in external intertextuality, contemporary intertextuality, and self-intertextuality. In addition, detailing the discussion of these patterns according to the nature of the presence of the absent poetic text and how it is employed through observing intertextual mechanisms adopted by Al-Hamwi. It is boiled down into four mechanisms: rumination, absorptive, dialogue, and signaling. The studied examples were classified according to these mechanisms during their presentation and analysis.
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