The market in poetry in the Persian world / Shahzad Bashir.
'Poetic speech is a pearl, connected to the king's ear.' This statement gestures to words as objects of material value sought by those with power and resources. I provide a sense for the texture of the Persian world by discussing what made poetry precious. By focusing on reports on po...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2021.
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| Series: | Cambridge elements. Elements in the global Middle Ages,
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| Summary: | 'Poetic speech is a pearl, connected to the king's ear.' This statement gestures to words as objects of material value sought by those with power and resources. I provide a sense for the texture of the Persian world by discussing what made poetry precious. By focusing on reports on poets' lives, I illuminate the social scene in which poetry was produced and consumed. The discussion elicits poetry's close connections to political and religious authority, economic exchange, and the articulation of gender. At the broadest level, the study substantiates the interdependency between cultural and material reproduction of society. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (79 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9781108953016 1108953018 |
| ISSN: | 2632-3427 |
| DOI: | 10.1017/9781108953016 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Source of description: Vendor-supplied metadata. |