Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Table of Contents; Body; Acknowledgments; Preface; 0. Prolegomena; 1. Between Classicism and Romanticism; 1.1 To Whom Does Spring Belong? Nostalgia and Coloring Reality; 1.2 Via Dolorosa and Other Stories: The Impotence of the Classical Heritage; 1.3 Wild Flowers: A Revolution in Beautiful Time; 2. The Road to Realism; 2.1 The Hexad of the Six Days and Other Stories: Reality versus Legend; 2.2 The Noble Mare: Ideology from the Summit of Mt. Jarmaq; 3. In the Ocean of Realism; 3.1 ʻĀʼid al-Mīʻārī Sells Manāqīsh in Tall al-Zaʻtar: Two Knights from Palestine.

3.2 Fragrance of the Homeland: Scent Has a Language4. Immersion in Folk Culture; 4.1 A Sin: Crime and Punishment The Palestinian Version; 4.2 The String and the Cicada: A Woman Leaks Blood; 4.3 Illicit Talk: Scheherazade Still Speaks; 4.4 Carla Bruni, My Secret Lover: Rejection of the Traditional Lexicon; 5. Commitment and Modernism; 5.1 Mt. Sīkh and Other Stories: Place as Protagonist ; 5.2 The Silent Dialogue of the Balconies: Human Concerns at Last; 5.3 Beneath the Surface of the Ink: Issues of Creativity and the Agony of Writing; 6. Afterword; 7. Bibliography; 8. Index.