Editorial: Edinburgh University Press
Colección: Edinburgh Historical Studies of Iran and the Persian World
Número de páginas: 312 págs. 15.0 x 23.0 cm
Fecha de edición: 01-07-2023
EAN: 9781474484022
ISBN: 978-1-4744-8402-2
Precio (sin IVA): 33,42 €
Precio (IVA incluído): 34,76 €
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. The emergence of the genre is indebted to the increasing importance of the poet, who came into increasing conflict with Ghaznavid and Saljuq sovereigns as the genre developed. Uniting the polarities of perpetuity and contingency, the poet’s body became the medium for the prison poem’s oppositional poetics.