عنوان

Speaking Laterally: Transnational Poetics and the Rise of Modern Arabic and Persian Poetry in Iraq and Iran

شماره

TL49415

زبان متن نوشتاري يا گفتاري و مانند آن

انگلیسی

عنوان اصلي

Speaking Laterally: Transnational Poetics and the Rise of Modern Arabic and Persian Poetry in Iraq and Iran

نام عام مواد

[Thesis]

نام نخستين پديدآور

Thomas Levi Thompson

نام ساير پديدآوران

Gana, Nouri

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

University of California, Los Angeles

تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره

2017

نام خاص و کميت اثر

289

متن يادداشت

Committee members: Cooperson, Michael D.; Ingenito, Domenico A.; Rahimieh, Nasrin

متن يادداشت

Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-369-82691-3

جزئيات پايان نامه و نوع درجه آن

Ph.D.

نظم درجات

Near Eastern Languages and Cultures

کسي که مدرک را اعطا کرده

University of California, Los Angeles

امتياز متن

2017

متن يادداشت

This dissertation critically investigates the transnational movements that shaped the making of modernist poetry in Iraq and Iran. Following a brief introduction to the project's historical and critical framework, the first chapter provides the dissertation's theoretical foundation. It thus engages conversations about literary commitment, the transnational dimension of literary development, and world literature to situate these two poetries as integral to the broader modernist movement. Chapter Two examines the poetry of Nīmā Yūshīj, the founder of Persian modernist poetry, and the foundational position of premodern Arabic prosody for Persian poetic form. It highlights how Nīmā's innovations on Arabic prosody presage the birth of the Iraqi free verse movement. Chapter Three moves on to discuss the work of Iraqi poet Badr Shākir al-Sayyāb, addressing how his pioneering project of poetic modernism changed in light of his political alignments. It demonstrates how his experience of the 1953 coup against Mosaddegh in Iran forced him to reconsider his Communist affiliations and discerns the effects his changing political outlook had on how he presented his poetry for posterity. Ahmad Shāmlū and Furūgh Farrukhzād, two poets who took up Nīmā's modernist vision in Iran, are the subjects of Chapter Four, which tackles their continued development of Arabic prosody in Persian and ultimate break with the formal constraints Nīmā had continued to adhere to. It also considers Shāmlū's and Farrukhzād's contrasting poetics of death in terms of their transnational poetic engagements. The final chapter turns to examine the Iraqi poet 'Abd al-Wahhāb al-Bayātī's poetics of revolution-which combines existentialism, Sufism, and political commitment-to show how al-Bayātī's use of the poetic masks of 'Umar al-Khayyām and the martyred Sufi Mansūr al-Hallāj works in transnational dialog with the Persian poetic and mystical traditions. By taking the Arabic modernist tradition as its focal point and putting Arabic poetry in conversation with modernist poetry in Persian, this study sheds light on how modernism functions as a planetary movement and calls for a reconsideration of current models for transnational literary analysis, reorienting modernist studies away from vertical approaches to lateral ones that consider minor modernist traditions on their own terms.

موضوع مستند نشده

Comparative literature; Prosody; Persian language; Poetry; Arabic language; Literary criticism; Vision; Politics; Poetics; Near Eastern studies; Literature; Conversation

اصطلاح موضوعی

Language, literature and linguistics;Social sciences;Arabic;Modernism;Near east;Persian;Poetry;Transnationalism

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Mayer, Linda Diekman

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Gana, Nouri

تقسيم فرعي

Near Eastern Languages and Cultures

مستند نام تنالگان تاييد نشده

University of California, Los Angeles

شماره بازیابی

1914918730; 10286571

نام الکترونيکي

فرمت انتشار

p

نوع ماده

[Thesis]

کد کاربرگه

276903

سطح دسترسي

a

تكميل شده

Y