{"product_id":"recasting-persian-poetry-scenarios-of-poetic-modernity-in-iran-9781780742496","title":"Recasting Persian Poetry: Scenarios of Poetic Modernity in Iran","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Ahmad Karimi-Hakkak\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: ONEWorld\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: ONEWorld\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Poetry\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUsing a semiotic model of poetic change, Recasting Persian Poetry 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 a series of textual manoeuvres and cultural contestations, successive generations of Iranian intellectuals sought to recast the classical tradition in a mold at once modern and relevant to their concerns. In particular, Karimi 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, Karimi makes visible a century-old Persian poetic tradition with Nima as its culmination.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ONEWorld","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47598971781271,"sku":"9781780742496","price":3738.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781780742496.webp?v=1775002675","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/recasting-persian-poetry-scenarios-of-poetic-modernity-in-iran-9781780742496","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}