Poetry and Revolution: The Poets and Poetry of the Constitutional Era of Iran

ISBN-13: 9781032152639 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 256 str.

Homa Katouzian; Alireza Korangy

Opis

Compiled by experts on the works of each individual poet, this book covers the poetry and poets of the Constitutional Revolution of Iran.

Spis treści

Introduction  1. Iraj, the Poet of Love and Humour  2. The Silencing of Qamar-ol-Moluk Vaziri: Extravagance and Myth-Making in Iranian Historiography  3. Mohammad ‘Ali Afrāshteh’s Gilaki Verse and the Legacy of the Constitutional Revolution  (1905-1911) 4. Freedom’s Song: Women and the Canonization of Constitutional Era Poets  5. Social Education through Satirical Verse: Ashraf Gilani and Ali Akbar Dehkhodā  6. Margins, Resistance and Transformation in Classical Persian Poetry: Yaghmā Jandaqi as Precursive Kernel of the Constitutional Revolution Poetry  7. Politics, Prison and Poetry: Analysis of Farrokhi Yazdi’s Poetics  8. Singing Modernity with the Language of Tradition: Situating the Literary Theory and Practice of Mohammad-Taqi Bahār  9. Crying on the Stage: ‘Eshqi the Playwright