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
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Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Persian
Series:Edinburgh Historical Studies of Iran and the Persian World
Physical Description:xiii, 297 Seiten; Illustrationen, Diagramme, Karten
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