UID:
almahu_9949419124702882
Format:
1 online resource (xi, 231 pages) :
,
digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
9781009164467 (ebook)
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).
Additional Edition:
Print version: ISBN 9781009164474
Language:
English
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009164467
