PROF Rebecca Gould's Outputs (5)

The Persian Prison Poem: Sovereignty and the Political Imagination (2021)
Book
Gould, R. R. (2021). The Persian Prison Poem: Sovereignty and the Political Imagination. Edinburgh University Press. https://doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474484015.001.0001

The Persian Prison Poem is the first study of the prison poem genre (habsiyyat) across twelfth-century Central, South, and West Asia. While documenting the emergence of a concept of poetry as a form of political resistance, the book shows the profoun... Read More about The Persian Prison Poem: Sovereignty and the Political Imagination.

The Temporality of Interlinear Translation (2021)
Journal Article
Tahmasebian Dehkordi, K., & Gould, R. R. (2021). The Temporality of Interlinear Translation. Representations, 155(1), 1-28. https://doi.org/10.1525/rep.2021.155.1.1

This article examines the temporality of interlinear translation through a case study of the rendering of Friedrich Hölderlin’s poetry into Persian. We argue that, in its adherence to the word order of the original, the interlinear crib prioritizes t... Read More about The Temporality of Interlinear Translation.

The Poetics of Nahḍah Multilingualism: Recovering the Lost Russian Poetry of Mikhail Naimy (2021)
Journal Article
Swanson, M., & Ruth Gould, R. The Poetics of Nahḍah Multilingualism: Recovering the Lost Russian Poetry of Mikhail Naimy. Journal of Arabic Literature, 52(1-2), 170-201. https://doi.org/10.1163/1570064x-12341433

Drawing on archival research, this article introduces several Russian poems by the Arabic mahjar poet and writer Mikhail Naimy (Mīkhāʿīl Nu’aymah) (1889-1988) for the first time to scholarship. By examining the influence of Russian literature on Naim... Read More about The Poetics of Nahḍah Multilingualism: Recovering the Lost Russian Poetry of Mikhail Naimy.

Ajnabi, Or the Xenological Uncanny in Iranian Modernism (2021)
Journal Article
Tahmasebian Dehkordi, K., & Gould, R. R. (2021). Ajnabi, Or the Xenological Uncanny in Iranian Modernism. New Literary History, 52(1), 145-168. https://doi.org/10.1353/nlh.2021.0006

Within Iran, the transformation in the Islamic legal understanding of the foreign (ajnabi) into a political concept was accelerated by the encounter with Europe during the nineteenth century. The classical Iranian understanding of otherness as a doma... Read More about Ajnabi, Or the Xenological Uncanny in Iranian Modernism.

Translation as Alienation: Sufi Hermeneutics and Literary Modernism in Bijan Elahi’s Translations (2021)
Digital Artefact
Tahmasebian Dehkordi, K., & Gould, R. R. (2021). Translation as Alienation: Sufi Hermeneutics and Literary Modernism in Bijan Elahi’s Translations. [Modernism/Modernity Print Plus]