{"product_id":"the-madness-of-the-shepherd-9781601910677","title":"The Madness of the Shepherd","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Matthew Franklin Cooper\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Wabasha Street Books\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Wabasha Street Books\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Poetry\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKosta Levan Khetagurov (1859-1906) remains the towering figure of Ossetian literature and one of the most significant poets of the late Russian Empire. Writing in both Ossetian and Russian, he gave voice to the material suffering and political aspirations of a people caught between imperial exploitation and internal complacency... and did so with a range that moves from prophetic fury to black-comic fable.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn The Madness of the Shepherd, Matthew Franklin Cooper applies the literary-functionalist methods of Trubetskoi and Jakobson to Khetagurov's lexical choices in both languages. Tracing key Ossetian terms (like фыййау 'shepherd, '  гъдау 'honour, ' and зар г 'song') back through their Iranian roots to the Avestā and the Nart Sagas, and examining how Arabic and Qur'ānic resonances inform the Russian-language epic Fatima, Cooper places Khetagurov in conversation with Ferdowsī, Gogol, Lu Xun, Jos� Mart�, Rub�n Dar�o, and the Palestinian poets of exile. What emerges is a portrait of a poet whose shepherd is at once messiah, satirical fool, and rallying cry.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCooper's style is fresh and singular. With prophetic incision, he draws the reader into the living world of a 19th-century Caucasian poet...and then, without breaking stride, turns the same lexicographic blade on the present, holding his reader to account under the burden of current events in West Asia. Khetagurov's words, in Cooper's hands, are not museum pieces but living seeds planted directly into the complacencies of our own time.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFr Marc Boulos\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003erector of St. Elizabeth OCA (St Paul, MN)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ehost of \u003cem\u003eThe Bible as Literature Podcast, \u003c\/em\u003eauthor of \u003cem\u003eRise, Andalus\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wabasha Street Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47883944362135,"sku":"9781601910677","price":1690.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781601910677.webp?v=1781104965","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-madness-of-the-shepherd-9781601910677","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}