Research Catalog

Title

Recasting Persian poetry : scenarios of poetic modernity in Iran / Ahmad Karimi-Hakkak.

Author

Karimi-Hakkak, Ahmad

Publication

Salt Lake City : University of Utah Press, c1995.

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Details

Description

xi, 335 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

"Using a semiotic model of poetic change, Recasting Persian Poetry 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 a series of textual maneuvers and cultural contestations, successive generations of Iranian intellectuals sought to recast the classical tradition in a mold at once modern and relevant to their concerns." "In particular, Karimi 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 esthetic gulf between the modernist poetry of Iran and classical Persian poetry." "Through a number of close readings of works by Nima's predecessors, Karimi makes visible a century-old Persian poetic tradition with Nima as its culmination."--BOOK JACKET.

Subjects

• Perzisch
• Persian poetry > 20th century > History and criticism
• Dichtkunst
• Moderniteit
• Poetics

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 315-326) and index.

Additional Formats (note)

• Also issued online.

Contents

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.

ISBN

• 0874804922 (alk. paper)
• 9780874804928 (alk. paper)

LCCN

95042219

OCLC

• ocm33281617
• 33281617
• SCSB-5500734

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries