The Persian Prison Poem: Sovereignty and the Political Imagination

by Rebecca Ruth Gould

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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.

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:1474484018

ISBN13:9781474484015

Release Date:December 2021

Publisher:Edinburgh University Press

Length:312 Pages

Weight:1.38 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"

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