Persian prison poem, the: sovereignty and the political imagination
Auteur :
Gould, Rebecca Ruth
Éditeur :
Edinburgh University Press
ISBN :
9781474484022
Date de publication :
17 juil. 2023
Dimensions :
23,4 x 15,6 cm
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
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.