Essays on Nima Yushij : : animating modernism in Persian poetry / / edited by Ahmad Karimi-Hakkak and Kamran Talattof.

• Superior document: Brill studies in Middle Eastern literatures ; Volume 31
• TeilnehmendeR: Karimi-Hakkak, Ahmad,; Talattof, Kamran,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, The Netherlands ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2004]; ©2004
• Year of Publication: 2004
• Language: English
• Series: Brill studies in Middle Eastern literatures ; Volume 31.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.

Through several groundbreaking critical articles on the question of poetic modernity in Persian new verse, this book focuses on the life and works of Nima Yushij (1887-1960), a major modernist Iranian poet. The articles situate Nima's life firmly within the context of early 20th century Iranian history. They are framed by a brief introduction in which the various contributions are related to each other and to various trends in poetic modernism in the Persian language, and a bibliography that lists all of Nima's works and the major studies of his life and work, both in Persian and in various Western languages. The book fills a gap in the history of Persian literature that has long endured due to the resistance of such a tradition-bound culture to the modernization of its poetry.

Table of Contents

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: Nima Yushij and the Millennium-old Tradition of Persian Poetry -- Nima Yushij: A Life -- Ideology and Self-Portrayal in the Poetry of Nima Yushij -- From Allegory to Symbol: Emblems of Nature in the Poetry of Nima Yushij -- "To tell another tale of mournful terror": Three of Nima's Songs of the Night -- Love: Nima's Dialogue with Hafez -- The Space Between Voices: Nima Yushij and the Receding Signified -- Intertextual Influences and Intracultural Contacts: History and Memory in the Poetry of Akhavan-sales and Wasef Bakhtari -- "The Saint's Tomb": The Birth, Death, and Renaissance of a Tradition -- National and International Recognition of Nima Yushij: A Sort of Bibliography, a Bibliography of Sorts -- Index.