| The Persian Prison Poem: Sovereignty and the Political Imagination Contributor(s): Gould, Rebecca Ruth (Author) |
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ISBN: 1474484018 ISBN-13: 9781474484015 Publisher: Edinburgh University Press OUR PRICE: $114.00 Product Type: Hardcover Published: December 2021 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Middle Eastern - Literary Criticism | Medieval - Literary Criticism | Poetry |
| Physical Information: 0.75" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (1.38 lbs) 312 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. 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. |