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...

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.