TY - BOOK ID - 78494744 TI - Memories of an impossible future PY - 2017 SN - 9004323791 9789004323797 9789004323780 9004323783 PB - Leiden Boston DB - UniCat KW - Akhavan Salis Mahdi KW - S̲ālis̲, Mahdī Akhavān KW - Umīd, M. KW - Akhawan-e-Thalith, Mehdi KW - Thalith, Mehdi Akhawan-e KW - -اخوان ثالث ، مهدى KW - اخوان ثالث، مهدي KW - مهدى اخوان ثالث KW - مهدي اخوان ثالث KW - Akhavan Sales KW - Sales, Akhavan KW - Akhavan Sales, Mehdi KW - Ikhvān S̲ālis̲, Mahdī KW - S̲ālis̲, Mahdī Ikhvān KW - Criticism and interpretation. KW - -اخوان ثالث، مهدى UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78494744 AB - In Memories of an Impossible Future: Mehdi Akhavān Sāles 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. Akhavān 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 Akhavān’s lyric and epic poems. Through a range of close readings Huber seeks to understand Akhavān’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 Akhavān’s poetics. ER -