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

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Salt Lake City : University of Utah Press, �1995.Description: 1 online resource (xi, 335 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 0585132879
  • 9780585132877
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Recasting Persian poetry.DDC classification:
  • 891/.551309 20
LOC classification:
  • PK6418 .K37 1995eb
Other classification:
  • 18.66
Online resources:
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.
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Review: "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."--Jacket.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-326) and index.

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.

"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."--Jacket.

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