Levi Thompson (Austin University of Texas)

Reorienting Modernism in Arabic and Persian Poetry

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Produktbeschreibung

This book situates Arabic and Persian poetries in relation to each other and to the development of modernism as a global phenomenon. Academics interested in Arabic and Persian literatures or in the concept of world literature will find a compelling case for studying Arabic and Persian modernist poetries comparatively.

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Produktdetails

• Cambridge Studies in World Literature
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Dezember 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 522g
• ISBN-13: 9781009164474
• ISBN-10: 1009164473
• Artikelnr.: 64297637

Autorenporträt

Levi Thompson is Assistant Professor of Persian and Arabic Literature in the Department of Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. His articles have appeared or are forthcoming in the Journal of Arabic Literature, College Literature, Middle Eastern Literatures, Alif: Journal of Comparative Poetics, and elsewhere.

Inhaltsangabe

A Note on Transliteration; Acknowledgments; Introduction: mapping a modernist geography in Arabic and Persian poetry; Part I. Crafting a Modernist Geography Across Arabic and Persian Poetry: 1. Formal connections, literary criticism, and political commitment; 2. Travel forms: Arabic prosody, craft, and N
m
Y
sh
j's Persian new poetry; Part II. Imagining New Worlds: 3. A
mad Sh
ml
's manifesto and proto-third world literature; 4. Badr Sh
kir al-Sayy
b between communism and world literature; Part III: Aftermath: Modernist Ends in Arabic and Persian Poetry; 5. Honoring commitments:
Abd al-Wahh
b al-Bay
t
's existential trials; 6. Winter in the modernist garden: Fur
gh Farrukhz
d's posthumous poetry and the death of modernism; Conclusion: re-orienting modernism; Bibliography; Index.