Farshad Sonboldel

The Rebellion of Forms in Modern Persian Poetry (eBook, PDF)

Politics of Poetic Experimentation

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Produktbeschreibung

An analysis of the aesthetic, cultural and political aspects of alternative poetic movements and individual poets in three periods: the Constitutional Revolution (1900-1920), the post-constitutional era (1920-1940), and the ascendency of modernism (1940-1960).

Farshad Sonboldel shines new light on the history of modern Persian poetry by re-imagining the roles that the aesthetic experimentations of alternative poets played in different phases of the literary revolution in modern Persian poetry. Dominant narratives portray modern Persian poetry as a gradual, rational, and moderate change in the classical regime of aesthetics as well as a response to - and reflection of - cultural and socio-political changes within Iranian society. They also disregard the significance of radical experiments by alternative poets and undervalue the part they played in the initiation and progress of the so-called "literary revolution." These mainstream narratives minimize the socio-political engagement of literary works with the direct reflection of the social reality, and thus neglect the way many alternative poems struggle with socio-political issues through deconstructing the old and constructing new aesthetic systems.

Each chapter of The Rebellion of Forms in Modern Persian Poetry is centred around poems chosen for their potential to showcase notable experiments of pioneer movements and individuals in each given period. Examining the formal and thematic aspects of these poems, this book reformulates the story of modern Persian poetry and unravels the relationship between radical aesthetic changes in the practice of poetry and resistance against political and cultural domination in society.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Februar 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798765103609
• Artikelnr.: 69537136

Autorenporträt

Farshad Sonboldel is the World History and Cultures Librarian at the University of California, San Diego, USA. He is also the editor for MELA Notes (Journal of the Middle East Librarians' Association). He earned his Ph.D. in Modern Languages from the University of St. Andrews, UK, and a Master's in Persian Language and Literature from the University of Tehran, Iran. He is also an award-winning poet, writer, literary critic, and researcher in Persian. He has published four books in Persian, two selections of poems titled Metropolis (2015) and She'r-e Boland-e Sharayet (2019), a research monograph, Gozaresh-e Nahib-e Jonbesh-e Adabi-e Shahin: Tondar Kia (2016) about the works of an avant-garde Persian poet in the first half of the 20th century, and an edited volume on the current trends of the literary criticism in Persian literature titled Naqd-e Irad (2021).