The Persian Prison Poem : Sovereignty and the Political Imagination (Edinburgh Historical Studies of Iran and the Persian World)

Gould, Rebecca Ruth

Edinburgh University Press（2021/12発売）

Edinburgh University Press（2021/12発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 312 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781474484015
• DDC分類 891.551109

Full 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.

Contents

Maps, 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