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The Persian Prison Poem

Language: English
Published/Copyright: 2022

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Through a series of insightful and sophisticated readings, this book reveals the worldliness of premodern Persian poetry. It traces the political role of poetry in shaping the prison poem genre (habsiyyat) across 12th-century Central, South and West Asia. Bringing theorists as wide ranging as Kantorowicz, Benjamin and Adorno into conversation with classical Persian poetics, this book offers an unprecedented account of prison poetry before modernity, and of premodern Persianate culture within the framework of world literature and global politics.

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    Frontmatter

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    Contents

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    List of Illustrations

    vi
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    Terminology, Transliteration and Sources

    vii
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    Acknowledgements

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    A Prison Poem Lexicon

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    Chronology of Poets, Rulers, Texts and Critics

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    Map of Ghaznavid South and West Asia

    xvi
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    Introduction: The Persian Poet’s Bodies: Towards a Corporeal Poetics

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    1 The Prison Poem and the Politics of Genre

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    2 The Lyric Poet’s Body

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    3 Borderland Conflicts, Cosmological Complaints

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    4 The Prison Poet as King and Prophet

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    5 Crucifixion as Critique

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    6 The Sovereign and the Poet’s Body

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    Epilogue: Incarceration, Metonymy, Modernity

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    Appendix: Khaqani’s Six Prison Poems

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    List of Abbreviations

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    Bibliography

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    Index

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April 21, 2022
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9781474484039
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312
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https://doi.org/10.1515/9781474484039
eBook ISBN: 9781474484039
Keywords for this book
Islamic Studies
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