Inbunden, Engelska, 2021
Persian Prison Poem
Sovereignty and the Political Imagination
Del i serien Edinburgh Historical Studies of Iran and the Persian World
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Beskrivning
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.
Produktinformation
- 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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