Workshop on Persian Poetics
At the interface of Self and Other, what theories of the lyric subject are elaborated in Persian literature, both medieval and modern? What are the philosophical foundations underlying discussions of poetic practice and how do these practices in turn affect our understanding of an individual poetics? Is there a point where poetics turns into ethics? And how do we, as members of the Western academy, justify our critical practice with regard to a tradition to which we are, in essence, peripheral?
JANUARY 24, 2020 (ALL DAY)
Location: STANFORD HUMANITIES CENTER
Morning Session – 10am-12pm
Marie Huber, Stanford University
Opening Remarks
Alexander Matthew Key, Stanford University
Conceptual Translation, Aesthetics, and Taxonomy
Domenico Arturo Ingenito, UCLA
“When ‘mental contents’ go adrift”: Sa'di's lyric subject, Avicennian psychology, and the internal senses
Jane Mikkelson, University of Virginia
The Lyric Interim is Full of Color: A Premodern Persian Theory of Poetry
Afternoon Session – 3pm-5pm
Paul Losensky, Indiana University
Poetic Designs: Gharaz as a Critical Concept in Mohtasham Kashani’s “Lovers’ Confection”
Prashant Keshavmurthy, McGill University
The Brahman: Xenology in Amīr Khusrow’s Alexandrine Mirror
Vincent Barletta, Stanford University
Rhythm is Black: Forough Farrokhzad and the Overrunning River of Sound
Open to faculty and students only.
Contact: chamill [at] stanford.edu (chamill[at]stanford[dot]edu)
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