Conceptual metaphor in Amazigh poetry, its syntactic and semantic structures... A new publication by the Moroccan writer Abdullah Zamzaki
About the House of Poetry in Marrakesh. The Moroccan writer Abdullah Zamzaki recently published a new critical book entitled “Pictorial Metaphor in Amazigh Poetry: Its Syntactic and Semantic Structures,” a book that won the first prize for poetic criticism allocated to young critics and researchers in the 2023 session, organized by the House of Poetry in Marrakesh.
The book is 196 pages of medium size. In it, the writer Abdullah Zamzaki dealt with one of the aspects of the poetics of the Amazigh poem, which is the poetic image, and specifically the use of conceptual metaphor in it, trying to reveal the centrality of metaphor and its uniqueness in Amazigh poetry, which has become the center of gravity of the poem, and a prominent feature that contributes to measuring the poetry of the poem, its linguistic aesthetics, and the extent of its imitation or imitation. Its novelty, quality or poor quality.
This book constitutes a qualitative addition to the Amazigh critical achievement, which consists of focusing on studying the Amazigh poetic texts and exploring their depths, in order to identify their artistic and expressive poetic features, and determine their cultural specificities.
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