Persian Prison Poem

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Persian Prison Poem is written by Rebecca Ruth Gould and published by Edinburgh University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1474484034 (ISBN 10) and 9781474484039 (ISBN 13).

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. Bringing theorists as wide ranging as Kantorowicz, Benjamin and Adorno into conversation with classical Persian poetics, this book offers an unprecedented account of prison poetry before modernity, and of premodern Persianate culture within the framework of world literature and global politics.