{"product_id":"9781780742496","title":"Recasting Persian Poetry","description":"Using a semiotic model of poetic change, Recasting Persian Poetry presents a critical history of the evolution of Persian poetry in modern Iran. Iran's contact with Europe in the nineteenth century produced largely imaginary ideas about European culture and literature. In a series of textual manoeuvres and cultural contestations, successive generations of Iranian intellectuals sought to recast the classical tradition in a mold at once modern and relevant to their concerns. In particular, Karimi proposes a revision of the view that sets the Modernist poet Nima Yushij as the single-handed inventor of 'New Poetry'. This view, he argues, has resulted in an exaggerated sense of the aesthetic gulf between the modernist poetry of Iran and classical Persian poetry. Through a number of close readings of works by Nima's predecessors, Karimi makes visible a century-old Persian poetic tradition with Nima as its culmination.","brand":"Ahmad Karimi-Hakkak","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50513451680062,"sku":"9781780742496","price":1632.82,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4357\/7662\/files\/9781780742496.jpg?v=1745865631","url":"https:\/\/exclusivebooks.co.za\/products\/9781780742496","provider":"Exclusive Books Online","version":"1.0","type":"link"}