Persian Poetics Workshop

Speaker(s): Vincent Barletta, Domenico Ingenito, Prashant Keshavmurthy, Alexander Key, Paul Losensky, Jane Mikkelson

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?
 
These and more questions will be addressed in the course of a workshop that brings together some outstanding scholars of Persian and Comparative Literature.
 
Open to Stanford faculty and students only. Registration requested: https://forms.gle/QJdZtCJcXeWpBFWZA
 
 
The first session will take place 10:00am - 12:00pm, and the second session will be 3:00pm-5:00pm. Light refreshments will be served.
 
Sponsored by the PATH Focal Group (DLCL), the Department of Comparative Literature (DLCL), and the Abbasi Program in Islamic Studies.
 
Event program:
 
Vincent Barletta (Stanford University)
Rhythm is Black: Forough Farrokhzad and the Overrunning River of Sound
 
Domenico Arturo Ingenito (UCLA)
“When ‘mental contents’ go adrift”: Sa'di's lyric subject, Avicennian psychology, and the internal senses
 
Prashant Keshavmurthy (Institute of Islamic Studies, McGill University)
The Brahman: Xenology in Amīr Khusrow’s Alexandrine Mirror
 
Alexander Matthew Key (Stanford University)
Conceptual Translation, Aesthetics, and Taxonomy
 
Paul Losensky (Indiana University)
Poetic Designs: Gharaz as a Critical Concept in Mohtasham Kashani’s “Lovers’ Confection”
 
Jane Mikkelson (University of Virginia)
The Lyric Interim is Full of Color: A Premodern Persian Theory of Poetry