{"product_id":"recasting-persian-poetry-ahmad-karimi-hakkak-9781780742496","title":"Recasting Persian Poetry: Scenarios of Poetic Modernity in Iran","description":"Using 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ahmad Karimi-Hakkak\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1780742495\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781780742496\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e ONEWorld\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/01\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 354\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.15lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.90d","brand":"Ahmad Karimi-Hakkak","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43937971142911,"sku":"9781780742496","price":46.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_aea6eb71-90d6-4603-a1f1-66192a20cbb5.jpg?v=1681432982","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/recasting-persian-poetry-ahmad-karimi-hakkak-9781780742496","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}