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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      24 November 2022
      08 December 2022
      ISBN:
      9781009164467
      9781009164474
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009164467
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.51kg, 244 Pages
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      • Subjects:
      Literature, Literary Theory, European and World Literature: General Interest
      Series:
      Cambridge Studies in World Literature
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    Subjects:
    Literature, Literary Theory, European and World Literature: General Interest
    Series:
    Cambridge Studies in World Literature
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    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.

    Awards

    Winner, 2023 Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Middle Eastern Studies, Modern Language Association

    Reviews

    ‘… a book worth reading.'

    Marlé Hammond Source: Middle Eastern Literature

    ‘Thompson’s critical interventions are welcome and contribute significantly to the fields of modernist studies, world literature, and comparative literature.’

    Karim Mattar Source: Comparative Literature Studies

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