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245 12 a| A revolution in rhymeh| [electronic resource] :b| poetic co-option under the Islamic Republic /c| Fatemeh Shams.;

250 a| First edition.;

260 a| Oxford, United Kingdom ;a| New York, United States :b| Oxford University Press,c| 2021.;

300 a| xvi, 371 pages ;c| 22 cm.;

490 0 a| Oxford oriental monographs;

504 a| Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-345) and index.;

505 0 a| Acknowledgements -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- 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;

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520 a| "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. Analysis of the lives and work of ten key poets traces the evolution of the Islamic Republic, from the 1979 Revolution, through to the Iran-Iraq War, the death of a leader and the rise of internal conflicts. Ancient forms jostle against didactic ideologies, exposing the complex relationship between poetry, patronage and literary production in authoritarian regimes, shedding light on a crucial area of discourse that has been hitherto overlooked."--c| Publisher website.;

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A revolution in rhyme poetic co-option under the Islamic Republic / Fatemeh Shams.

Author/creator	Shams, Fatemeh, 1983-
Other author	Oxford University Press.
Format	Electronic
Edition	First edition.
Publication Info	Oxford, United Kingdom ; New York, United States : Oxford University Press, 2021.
Description	xvi, 371 pages ; 22 cm.
Supplemental Content	Full text available from Oxford Scholarship Online
Subjects	Persian poetry--20th century. --History and criticism. Persian poetry--21st century. --History and criticism. Politics in literature.

Series	Oxford oriental monographs Oxford Oriental monographs (Unnumbered) ^A845073
Contents	Acknowledgements -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- 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
Abstract	"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. Analysis of the lives and work of ten key poets traces the evolution of the Islamic Republic, from the 1979 Revolution, through to the Iran-Iraq War, the death of a leader and the rise of internal conflicts. Ancient forms jostle against didactic ideologies, exposing the complex relationship between poetry, patronage and literary production in authoritarian regimes, shedding light on a crucial area of discourse that has been hitherto overlooked."-- Publisher website.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-345) and index.
Access restriction	Available only to authorized users.
Technical details	Mode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/form	Electronic books.
LCCN	2020934984
ISBN	9780198858829 (hardback)
ISBN	0198858825 (hardback)

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