Recasting Persian Poetry

Karimi-Hakkak, Ahmad

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Author
Karimi-Hakkak, Ahmad
Publish Date
12/01/1995
Book Type
Hardcover
Publisher Name
UUTAH
Subtitle
Scenarios of Poetic Modernity in Iran
Number of Pages
335
Edition
First Edition
ISBN-10
0874804922
ISBN-13
9780874804928
SKU
9780874804928

Description

Large 8vo. xi, 335 pp, acknowledgments, a note on transliteration, Introduction: A Model of Poetic Change, 1. A Rhetoric of Subversion; 2. Poetic Signs and Their Spheres; 3. An Open Literary Culture; 4. From Translation to Appropriation; 5. Dismantling a Poetic System; 6. A New Esthetic Tradition; notes, bibliography, index. First Edition, 1995. Green cloth with gilt lettering to spine. ``Using a semiotic model of poetic change, the author presents a critical history of the evolution of Persian poetry in modern Iran. Iran's contact with Europe in the nineteenth century produced largely imaginary ideas about European culture and literature. In particular, he proposes a revision of the view that sets the Modernist poet Nima Yushij as the single-handed inventor of 'New Poetry'. This view, he argues, has resulted in an exaggerated sense of the aesthetic gulf between the modernist poetry of Iran and classical Persian poetry. Through a number of close readings of works by Nima's predecessors