Reorienting Modernism in Arabic and Persian Poetry(English, Hardcover, Thompson Levi)

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Reorienting Modernism in Arabic and Persian Poetry(English, Hardcover, Thompson Levi) is written by Thompson Levi and published by Cambridge University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1009164473 (ISBN 10) and 9781009164474 (ISBN 13).

Re-orienting Modernism in Arabic and Persian Poetry is the first book to systematically study the parallel development of modernist poetry in Arabic and Persian. It presents a fresh line of comparative inquiry into minor literatures within the field of world literary studies. Focusing on Arabic-Persian literary exchanges allows readers to better understand the development of modernist poetry in both traditions and in turn challenge Europe's position at the center of literary modernism. The argument contributes to current scholarly efforts to globalize modernist studies by reading Arabic and Persian poetry comparatively within the context of the Cold War to establish the Middle East as a significant participant in wider modernist developments. To illuminate profound connections between Arabic and Persian modernist poetry in both form and content, the book takes up works from key poets including the Iraqis Badr Shakir al-Sayyab and Abd al-Wahhab al-Bayati and the Iranians Nima Yushij, Ahmad Shamlu, and Forough Farrokhzad.