The Persian prison poem : Sovereignty and the political imagination / Rebecca Ruth Gould
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. The emergence of the genre is indebted to th...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2021 ©2021 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English Persian |
| Series: | Edinburgh Historical Studies of Iran and the Persian World
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| Physical Description: | xiii, 297 Seiten; Illustrationen, Diagramme, Karten |
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| Summary: | 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. The emergence of the genre is indebted to the increasing importance of the poet, who came into increasing conflict with Ghaznavid and Saljuq sovereigns as the genre developed. Uniting the polarities of perpetuity and contingency, the poet?s body became the medium for the prison poem?s oppositional poetics.0Bringing 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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| ISBN: | 9781474484015 1474484018 |
| ac_no: | AC16505448 |
| Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
| Statement of Responsibility: | Rebecca Ruth Gould |