| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 371 pages) |
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Oxford Oriental Monographs |
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Oxford Oriental monographs.
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| Contents |
Cover -- A Revolution in Rhyme: Poetic Co-option under the Islamic Republic -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Abbreviations -- Note on Transliteration and Translation -- Consonants -- Vowels -- Other Rules -- Introduction: "Awakening the Nation": Poetry and Power in Modern Iran -- The Origins of Poetry and Patronage in Iran -- The Label of "Official Literature": Advantages and Limitations -- The Question of Literary Merit -- Existing Scholarship and Its Limitations -- Mapping Poetic Continuity and Rupture: A Conceptual Framework -- The Structure of the Book |
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Poetry and the 1979 Revolution -- Chapter 1: Rethinking the Islamic Republican Canon -- Two Generations, Ten Poets -- The First Generation -- Second Generation -- Unravelling the Ethics of a Canon -- Chapter 2: "Surgery of the Soul": Introducing the Howzeh -- The Beginnings of Cultural Control -- The Birth of the Howzeh -- Co-option into the State Ideological Apparatus -- Following the Rival's Fashion -- A Jostle for Control and the Removal of Thought -- The Absence of Creative Integrity -- A Sinister Side to State Control -- One Voice, Many Writers -- The Upswing in Official Poetry |
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Chapter 3: Returning to the Roots: The Dark and Light of the Village -- The Political Motive for Nostalgia -- Defining the Village -- Politicizing the Village -- The Role of the Rural Revolutionary -- The "Official" Village: The "Gaze that Tastes of Milk" -- "Machine-Made Bread" -- "Simple, Like a Village": The Rise of a Rustic Utopia -- From Noble Peasant to Migrant Margin-Dweller -- The Fading Village -- Reviving the Village -- The Danger of Collective Greenwashing -- Chapter 4: A War to Remember (1): Decoding the Poetic Violence of War -- Origins of "Devotional" Combative Poetics |
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Devotional Militant Poetic Forms -- Origins of the Mystic-Combative Poetics -- The Mystification of Death -- In Search of a Different Cure -- Chapter 5: A War to Remember (2): The Other Face of War -- Writing in the Warzone -- Writing in the War-Scarred Streets -- Writing in a Wounded Alphabet -- Writing against a Common Enemy -- Writing for the Children of War -- Writing the Real Message of War -- Chapter 6: Loss and Nostalgia: Official Poetry in Post-War Chaos -- The Devastation of War, the Balm of Nostalgia -- The Loss of the State Patriarch -- The Loss of Utopia and the Rise of Protest Poetry |
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The Rise of the Reform Movement: Re-envisioning the Self, Religion, and Ideology -- Chapter 7: Inventing a Courtly Tradition: Poetry and Power in Khamenei's Islamic Republic -- Passing the Poetry Baton -- From Bookworm to the Ruling Ayatollah -- The Search for Political Legitimacy: Poetry as a New Form of Political Covenant -- Instating a New Courtly Poetic Tradition -- Annual Poetry Ceremonies and the Poetics of Conversion -- Official Poets and the Question of Social Mobility -- Characteristics of Official Verse -- Searching the Past to Rule the Present |
| Summary |
A Revolution in Rhyme: Poetic Co-option under the Islamic Republic offers, for the first time, an original, timely examination of the pivotal role poetry plays in policy, power and political legitimacy in modern-day Iran. Through a compelling chronological and thematic framework, Shams presents fresh insights into the emerging lexicon of coercion and unrest in the modern Persian canon |
| Notes |
An "Imagined" Iran and the Power of a Panegyric Ode |
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Description based on electronic resource; title from PDF title page (Oxford Scholarship Online, viewed June 11, 2021) |
| Subject |
Poetics -- Political aspects
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780192602480 |
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0192602489 |
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