The rebellion of forms in modern Persian poetry : politics of poetic experimentation / Farshad Sonboldel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sonboldel, Farshad, author.

Contributor:

Bloomsbury (Firm)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Experimental poetry, Persian--History and criticism.

Experimental poetry, Persian.

Persian poetry--20th century--History and criticism.

Persian poetry.

Aesthetics.

Avant-garde (Aesthetics)--Iran--History--20th century.

Avant-garde (Aesthetics).

Politics and literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 214 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2024.

Contents:

Cover

Contents

Acknowledgements

A note on transliteration

Introduction

Methodology and key theories

Study framework

Research contribution

A note on originality and authenticity of the alternative movements

1 The politics of literature and the forms of literary deviation in constitutional poetry

Resistance and transformation in pre-constitutional poetry

Residual forces of the Bāzgasht-e Adabi movement

Mohammad Taqi Malek al-Sho'arā Bahār: Cohabitation of the old and the new

2 Constitutional poetry and the performative arts

The politics of singing

Theatrocracy in Mirzādeh Eshqi's dramatic poetry

3 The left wing of the poetic revolution and constructive misreading of the literary tradition

The Ra'fat era: From deconstruction to construction

Major Lāhuti: Persian socialist realism and the aesthetic revolution

Remodelling the poetic forms: Prosodic metres and rhyme schemes

Cha-rpa-reh: A collective drive to poetic modernity

4 Modernism and high modernism

Modernism, experimentalism, and avant-garde

Nimā Yushij: Self-revision and conscious misreading of oneself

5 Experimentalism in Persian poetry between the 1930s and the 1950s

Mohammad Moqaddam, a prose poet: Introducing free verse into Persian poetry

Zabih Behruz: A wanderer poet in the city of drama

Shin Partow: A bridge between Nimāic and experimental poetry

6 Avant-garde poetry between the 1940s and 1950s

Tondar Kiā: Poet of cabarets

Moods and moments

Kiā: Ragpicker in modern Tehran

Non-organicity

A dialogue with Dadaism

Hushang Irāni: Slaughterer of the nightingale

Irāni's violet scream

A different way of sociopolitical engagement

Conclusion

Prospects for further research

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.

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Other Format:

Print version: Sonboldel, Farshad. Rebellion of forms in modern Persian poetry

ISBN:

9798765103616

9798765103593

9798765103609

Publisher Number:

99995584049

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