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Essays on Nima Yushij : Animating Modernism in Persian Poetry / Animating Modernism in Persian Poetry edited by Ahmad Karimi-Hakkak, Kamran Talattof. - 1 online resource. - Brill Book Archive Part 1, ISBN: 9789004472495 Brill Studies in Middle Eastern Literatures ; 31 . - Brill Book Archive Part 1, ISBN: 9789004472495. Brill Studies in Middle Eastern Literatures ; 31. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Through several groundbreaking critical articles on the question of poetic modernity in Persian new verse, this book focuses on the life and works of Nima Yushij (1887-1960), a major modernist Iranian poet. The articles situate Nima's life firmly within the context of early 20th century Iranian history. They are framed by a brief introduction in which the various contributions are related to each other and to various trends in poetic modernism in the Persian language, and a bibliography that lists all of Nima's works and the major studies of his life and work, both in Persian and in various Western languages. The book fills a gap in the history of Persian literature that has long endured due to the resistance of such a tradition-bound culture to the modernization of its poetry.

ISBN: 9789047414414 9789004138094

Standard No.: 10.1163/9789047414414 DOI

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Subjects--Topical Terms:
Modernism (culture)
Poetry.

LC Class. No.: PK6561.Y78

Dewey Class. No.: 891/.5513