The Persian Prison Poem / / Rebecca Ruth Gould.
The first English-language study of the Persian prison poemDevelops a new approach to genre, based on the political status of the prison poem Offers an unprecedented account of the interrelations of poetry and power in pre-modern literature Sheds new light on Muslim–Christian relations by documentin...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022] ©2022 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Edinburgh Historical Studies of Iran and the Persian World
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (312 p.) :; 10 B/W illustrations; 1 B/W tables |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Terminology, Transliteration and Sources
- Acknowledgements
- A Prison Poem Lexicon
- Chronology of Poets, Rulers, Texts and Critics
- Map of Ghaznavid South and West Asia
- Introduction: The Persian Poet’s Bodies: Towards a Corporeal Poetics
- 1 The Prison Poem and the Politics of Genre
- 2 The Lyric Poet’s Body
- 3 Borderland Conflicts, Cosmological Complaints
- 4 The Prison Poet as King and Prophet
- 5 Crucifixion as Critique
- 6 The Sovereign and the Poet’s Body
- Epilogue: Incarceration, Metonymy, Modernity
- Appendix: Khaqani’s Six Prison Poems
- List of Abbreviations
- Bibliography
- Index