Persian Prison Poem

Sovereignty and the Political Imagination

AvRebecca Ruth Gould

Inbunden, Engelska, 2021

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Through a series of insightful and sophisticated readings, this book reveals the worldliness of premodern Persian poetry. It traces the political role of poetry in shaping the prison poem genre (habsiyyat) across 12th-century Central, South and West Asia. Bringing theorists as wide ranging as Kantorowicz, Benjamin and Adorno into conversation with classical Persian poetics, this book offers an unprecedented account of prison poetry before modernity, and of premodern Persianate culture within the framework of world literature and global politics.

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Utgivningsdatum:2021-12-08
Mått:156 x 234 x 27 mm
Vikt:618 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Edinburgh Historical Studies of Iran and the Persian World
Antal sidor:312
Förlag:Edinburgh University Press
ISBN:9781474484015

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Professor of Islamic World and Comparative Literature at the University of Birmingham. She is author of Writers and Rebels: The Literature of Insurgency in the Caucasus (Yale University Press, 2016).

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With eloquent translations of key medieval Persian poets into English for the first time, the book is an important addition to the field of not just Middle Eastern literature, but medieval and comparative literature as a whole. [...] In writing this book, Gould has, herself, shaken up the genre of literary scholarship [...].

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Maps, Tables, IllustrationsA Prison Poem LexiconChronologyIntroduction: The Persian Poet’s Bodies: Towards a Corporeal PoeticsThe Prison Poem as a Transgressive GenreThe Corporeal Poetics of the Lyric OdeBorderland Conflicts, Cosmological ComplaintsThe Prison Poet as King and ProphetCrucifixion as CritiqueThe Sovereign and the Poet’s BodyEpilogue: Incarceration, Metonomy, ModernityAppendix I. Khaqani’s Six Prison PoemsBibliography