Reorienting Modernism in Arabic and Persian Poetry

ISBN-13: 9781009164474 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 280 str.

Austin) Thompson Levi (University of Texas

Opis

Comparatively studies, through both form and content, the development of Arabic and Persian modernist poetry during the mid-twentieth century.

Recenzje

'… a book worth reading.' Marlé Hammond, Middle Eastern Literature

Spis treści

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 Nīmā Yūshīj's Persian new poetry; Part II. Imagining New Worlds: 3. Aḥmad Shāmlū's manifesto and proto-third world literature; 4. Badr Shākir al-Sayyāb between communism and world literature; Part III: Aftermath: Modernist Ends in Arabic and Persian Poetry; 5. Honoring commitments: ʿAbd al-Wahhāb al-Bayātī's existential trials; 6. Winter in the modernist garden: Furūgh Farrukhzād's posthumous poetry and the death of modernism; Conclusion: re-orienting modernism; Bibliography; Index.