The Persian prison poem: sovereignty and the political imagination

The first English-language study of the Persian prison poem. Develops a new approach to genre, based on the political status of the prison poem. Offers an unprecedented account of the interrelations of poetry and power in pre-modern literature. Sheds new light on Muslim-Christian relations by docume...

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Beteilige Person: Gould, Rebecca Ruth (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:Englisch
Persisch
Veröffentlicht: Edinburgh Edinburgh University Press [2021]
Schriftenreihe:Edinburgh historical studies of Iran and the Persian world
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Links:https://doi.org/10.1515/9781474484039
https://doi.org/10.1515/9781474484039
https://doi.org/10.1515/9781474484039
Zusammenfassung:The first English-language study of the Persian prison poem. Develops a new approach to genre, based on the political status of the prison poem. Offers an unprecedented account of the interrelations of poetry and power in pre-modern literature. Sheds new light on Muslim-Christian relations by documenting the multi-confessional orientation of many prison poems. Relates the trajectory of the prison poem genre in pre-modern poetics to Iranian literary modernism, including the prison poems of Muhammad Taqi Bahar. 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. 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
Umfang:1 Online-Ressource (xv, 297 Seiten) Illustrationen, Diagramme, Karten
ISBN:9781474484039
9781474484046
DOI:10.1515/9781474484039