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Edinburgh Historical Studies of Iran and the Persian World Ser.: Persian Prison Poem : Sovereignty and the Political Imagination by Rebecca Ruth Gould (2023, Trade Paperback)

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PublisherEdinburgh Tea & Coffee Company University Press

ISBN-101474484026

ISBN-139781474484022

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Product Key Features

Number of Pages312 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NamePersian Prison Poem : Sovereignty and the Political Imagination

SubjectMedieval, Middle Eastern, Poetry

Publication Year2023

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaLiterary Criticism

AuthorRebecca Ruth Gould

SeriesEdinburgh Historical Studies of Iran and the Persian World Ser.

FormatTrade Paperback

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Item Length9.2 in

Item Width6.1 in

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Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

Dewey Edition23

ReviewsGould draws on history and political theory alongside comparative poetics to offer a brilliant new way of reading classical Persian poetry as a mode of political critique. This first-ever study of Persian prison poetry in English opens new frontiers within Persian studies through its lucid translations and refreshingly insightful analysis. The Persian Prison Poem will change how the prison poem genre is read - indeed, how genre in general is read - within Persian and world literature., Enriched by several astonishingly creative and meticulous translations and by numerous fresh interpretations, this monograph will be an indispensable reference point for scholars of Islamic literary cultures and specialists of the multi-lingual and multi-confessional empires of the Ghaznavids and Shirwanshahs., This book is a masterful study of the rise of an age-old Persianate literary genre that is at the same time profoundly scholarly in its use of sources, boldly comparative in the deployment of critical theory, and humanistic in its exposition of the interplay of power and politics with the experience of being a prisoner and creating poetry. It should appeal to anyone who is interested in new approaches to world literature., With its delicate aesthetic sensitivity, piercing linguistic acumen, and sophisticated theoretical framework, The Persian Prison Poem is a triumph in world literary studies. Rebecca Gould invites us to a captivating conversation between giants of Persian literature - figures like Nasir-i Khusraw, Masud Sad, and especially Khaqani - with revered masters of the Western canon. Readers will come away enriched with fascinating insights into the development of political theologies, the rivalries of worldly and spiritual power, and poetry as a powerful tool of social transformation. The Persian Prison Poem is a book of scholarly sophistication and literary beauty.

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Dewey Decimal891.551109

Table Of ContentMaps, Tables, IllustrationsA Prison Poem LexiconChronology Introduction: The Persian Poet's Bodies: Towards a Corporeal Poetics The Prison Poem as a Transgressive Genre The Corporeal Poetics of the Lyric Ode Borderland Conflicts, Cosmological Complaints The Prison Poet as King and Prophet Crucifixion as Critique The Sovereign and the Poet's Body Epilogue: Incarceration, Metonomy, Modernity Appendix I. Khaqani's Six Prison Poems Bibliography

SynopsisThrough 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. Bringing 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., 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., offering an unprecedented account of prison poetry before modernity.

LC Classification NumberPK6420