Rebecca Ruth Gould

Broschiertes Buch

The Persian Prison Poem

Sovereignty and the Political Imagination

Beschreibung

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., offering an unprecedented account of prison poetry before modernity.

Autor

Professor of Islamic World and Comparative Literature at the University of Birmingham. She is author of Writers and Rebels: The Literature of Insurgency in the Caucasus (Yale University Press, 2016).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Juli 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 449g
• ISBN-13: 9781474484022
• ISBN-10: 1474484026
• Artikelnr.: 67746542