Religious Intertextuality in the Poem No Reconciliation by Amal Dunqul

Abstract

Modern Arabic poetry has become open to various fields of knowledge and cultures, incorporating within its folds a wide range of knowledge that shapes its material and themes. It has also come to intensify imagery and incline toward symbolism and suggestion. In an effort to keep pace with all this, literary criticism has developed mechanisms capable of encompassing it from every angle. Intertextuality is considered one of the critical mechanisms through which criticism has approached creative texts in general and poetry in particular. Perhaps one of the most distinctive features of the poetry of Amal Dunqul is its intertextuality with Arab heritage in general and religion in particular. How, then, did Amal employ religion in his texts? And what aesthetic dimension did this employment add to his poetry?