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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.
| Introduction : Nima Yushij and the millennium-old tradition of Persian poetry | 1 | |
| Nima Yushij : a life | 11 | |
| Ideology and self-portrayal in the poetry of Nima Yushij | 69 | |
| From allegory to symbol : emblems of nature in the poetry of Nima Yushij | 99 | |
| "To tell another tale of mournful terror" : three of Nima's songs of the night | 139 | |
| Love : Nima's dialogue with Hafez | 173 | |
| The space between voices : Nima Yushij and the receding signified | 193 | |
| Intertextual influences and intracultural contacts : history and memory in the poetry of Akhavan-sales and Wasef Bakhtari | 221 | |
| "The saint's tomb" : the birth, death and renaissance of a tradition | 237 | |
| National and international recognition of Nima Yushij : a sort of bibliography, a bibliography of sorts | 253 |
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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 ...