UID:
almafu_9960943435302883
Format:
1 online resource (xi, 231 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-009-19620-0
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1-009-19619-7
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1-009-16446-5
Series Statement:
Cambridge studies in world literature
Content:
Re-orienting Modernism in Arabic and Persian Poetry is the first book to systematically study the parallel development of modernist poetry in Arabic and Persian. It presents a fresh line of comparative inquiry into minor literatures within the field of world literary studies. Focusing on Arabic-Persian literary exchanges allows readers to better understand the development of modernist poetry in both traditions and in turn challenge Europe's position at the center of literary modernism. The argument contributes to current scholarly efforts to globalize modernist studies by reading Arabic and Persian poetry comparatively within the context of the Cold War to establish the Middle East as a significant participant in wider modernist developments. To illuminate profound connections between Arabic and Persian modernist poetry in both form and content, the book takes up works from key poets including the Iraqis Badr Shakir al-Sayyab and Abd al-Wahhab al-Bayati and the Iranians Nima Yushij, Ahmad Shamlu, and Forough Farrokhzad.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 24 Nov 2022).
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Cover -- Half-title -- Series information -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Transliteration -- Introduction: Mapping a Modernist Geography in Arabic and Persian Poetry -- A Special Theory of Relativity -- The Transnational Unconscious and the Attitude of Modernity -- A Theoretical Map for Arabic and Persian Modernist Poetry -- Chapter Outline -- A Reoriented Modernist Cartography -- Part I Crafting a Modernist Geography across Arabic and Persian Poetry -- Chapter 1 Formal Connections, Literary Criticism, and Political Commitment -- The Rules of Prosody (ʿArūḍ) -- The Local Critical Traditions -- The Commitment Debates: Iltizām, Taʿahhud, and Poetry -- A Way Out of the Commitment Debates -- Chapter 2 Travel Forms: Arabic Prosody, Craft, and Nīmā Yūshīj's Persian New Poetry -- Nīmā's New Poetry as Ṣanʿat (Craft) -- Pahlavi versus Nimaic Visions of Modernity: The Craft of Sublation -- The Past in the Present of Modern Persian Poetry -- Nīmā's Phoenix Rises (I): Premodern Form and New Poetry -- Nīmā's Phoenix Rises (II): Modern and Premodern Themes in a Modernist Persian Poem -- Modernist Spirits: The Past and the Present in Nīmā's ''The Phoenix'' -- Nīmā's Modernist Poetic Craft as a Technique for Sublation -- Part II Imagining New Worlds -- Chapter 3 Aḥmad Shāmlū's Manifesto and Proto-Third World Literature -- What Is Proto-Third Worldism? -- Proto-Third Worldism in Aḥmad Shāmlū's Manifesto -- Shāmlū, Lorca, and Proto-Third World Solidarity -- Third World Commitments in The Manifesto -- Shāmlū's Manifesto, Proto-Third Worldism, and World Literature -- Chapter 4 Badr Shākir al-Sayyāb between Communism and World Lit erature -- Sayyāb and the Communists -- ''Weapons and Children'' between Local Form and World Literature -- Sayyāb's Transnational Turn -- After Sayyāb's Turn.
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Part III Aftermath: Modernist Ends in Arabic and Persian Poetry -- Chapter 5 Honoring Commitments: ʿAbd al-Wahhāb al-Bayātī's Existential Trials -- Bayātī the Transnational Poet -- Bayātī's Existential Commitment -- The Function of Taḍmīn (Poetic Quoting) in Bayātī's Poetry -- Ḥallāj on Trial in Bayātī's Poetry -- Khayyām on Trial in Bayātī's Dramatic Work -- Bayātī Honors Past Commitments -- Chapter 6 Winter in the Modernist Garden: Furūgh Farrukhzād's Posthumous Poetry and the Death of Modernism -- Farrukhzād's Lyric ''I'' as a Modern Iranian Flâneuse -- The End of Modernist Metrics in Iran -- Winter in Farrukhzād's Modernist Garden -- ''Let Us Believe in the Beginning of the Cold Season'' and the Death of Modernism -- Beginnings and Ends in Farrukhzād's Late Poetry -- Conclusion: Reorienting Modernism -- Notes -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3 -- Chapter 4 -- Chapter 5 -- Chapter 6 -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781009164474
Language:
English
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009164467
