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Large 8vo. xi, 335 pp, acknowledgments, a note on transliteration, 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; notes, bibliography, index. First Edition, 1995. Green cloth with gilt lettering to spine. ``Using a semiotic model of poetic change, the author 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 particular, he 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 aesthetic gulf between the modernist poetry of Iran and classical Persian poetry. Through a number of close readings of works by Nima's predecessors
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Ahmad Karimi-Hakkak is associate professor of Persian language and literature and Iranian culture and civilization at the University of Washington.
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A splendid work of scholarship, expertly envisioned and magisterially organized. Karimi's argument is clear, and compelling, and very important. - David Bevington
An exciting and innovative work of literary theory and scholarship that is bound to exert a formative influence on the next generation of Middle Eastern literary studies. - Suzanne P. Stetkevych
A substantial and original contribution to our understanding of modern Persian poetry....It breaks new ground in every chapter. - Jerome Clinton
An exciting and innovative work of literary theory and scholarship that is bound to exert a formative influence on the next generation of Middle Eastern literary studies. - Suzanne P. Stetkevych
A substantial and original contribution to our understanding of modern Persian poetry....It breaks new ground in every chapter. - Jerome Clinton
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- PublisherUniv of Utah Pr
- Publication date1995
- ISBN 10 0874804922
- ISBN 13 9780874804928
- BindingHardcover
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- Number of pages335
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