Memories of an Impossible Future: Mehdi Akhavān Sāles and the Poetics of Time

Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-90-04-32378-0
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 14, 164 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 204 g

Reihe: Iran Studies

In Memories of an Impossible Future: Mehdi Akhavan Sales and the Poetics of Time Marie Huber traces the quest for a modern language of poetry through different figurations of temporality in the works of one of Iran’s foremost poets. Akhavan is placed in dialogue with European thinkers and emerges as an original voice in world literature.

Chapters examine aspects of rhythm and metaphor, messianism and historicity, and functions of time in Akhavan’s lyric and epic poems. Through a range of close readings Huber seeks to understand Akhavan’s texts as crystallisations of a historical moment, both rooted in the Persian tradition and pointing beyond it. Her analyses combine attention to philological detail with meditations on the philosophical significance of Akhavan’s poetics.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Huber, Marie

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Lyrik und Dichter
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Naher & Mittlerer Osten

Über Autor(innen)

Marie Huber, Ph.D. (2013), Harvard University, is Assistant Professor of Persian and Comparative Literature at Stanford University. Her research focuses on medieval and 20th century Persian literature, poetry and poetics, the intersections of literature with philosophy and ethics, and comparative mysticism.