Critical Perspectives on Modern Persian Literature
Author: Thomas M. Ricks
Publisher: Three Continents
Published: 1984
Total Pages: 554
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Critical Perspectives on Modern Persian Literature
Author: Thomas M. Ricks
Publisher: Three Continents
Published: 1984
Total Pages: 544
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKPersian Literature and Modernity
Author: Hamid Rezaei Yazdi
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2018-12-07
Total Pages: 444
ISBN-13: 0429999615
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPersian Literature and Modernity recasts the history of modern literature in Iran by elucidating the bonds between the classical tradition and modernity and exploring textual, generic and discursive formations through heterodoxical investigations. This is first done through the rehabilitation of concepts embedded in tradition, including the munāzirah (debate), Ahrīman (the demonic), tajarrud (radical aloneness) and nāriz̤āyatī (discontent). Following this are broader structural and processual treatments, including the emergence of the genre of the social novel, the international dimension of Persian and Persianate canon formation, and the development of salvage ethnography and anthropological discourse in Iran. Covering literary experiments from the twelfth to the twentieth centuries, the chapters in this volume make a case for stepping outside the bounds of orthodox literary scholarship in Iranian studies with its associated political and orientalist determinants in order to provide a more nuanced conception of literary modernity in Iran. Offering an alternative reading of modernity in Persian literature, this book is an invaluable resource for scholars and students interested in the history of modern Iran and Persian Literature.
Essays On Nima Yushij
Author: Aḥmad Karīmī Ḥakkāk
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 279
ISBN-13: 9004138099
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSituating Nima's life firmly within the context of 20th century Iranian history this book contributes to an emerging trend in literary scholarship on Persian literature that views Persian poetry as a living and constantly evolving tradition rather than an icon of some fading glory.
Modern Persian Prose Literature
Author: Hassan Kamshad
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1966
Total Pages: 250
ISBN-13: 9780521169189
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 1966 book provides a series of concise, accessible essays reflecting on the development of Persian fiction during the modern period. The structure of the text is broadly chronological, with chapters allocated to key authors, literary movements, and social changes. This is a valuable volume for anyone interested in Persian literature.
Critical Perspectives on Wole Soyinka
Author: Wole Soyinka
Publisher: Lynne Rienner Publishers
Published: 1980
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780914478492
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDistinguished scholars analyze the plays, poetry, and prose of Wole Smoyinka, winner of the Nobel Prize for literature in 1986. Essays trace his career and place his work in the general context of African literature.
Persian Literature as World Literature
Author: Mostafa Abedinifard
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2021-07-15
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 1501354205
DOWNLOAD EBOOKConfronting nationalistic and nativist interpreting practices in Persianate literary scholarship, Persian Literature as World Literature makes a case for reading these literatures as world literature-as transnational, worldly texts that expand beyond local and national penchants. Working through an idea of world literature that is both cosmopolitan and critical of any monologic view on globalization, the contributors to this volume revisit the early and contemporary circulation of Persianate literatures across neighboring and distant cultures, and seek innovative ways of developing a transnational Persian literary studies, engaging in constructive dialogues with the global forces surrounding, and shaping, Persianate societies and cultures.
Sadeq Hedayat
Author: Homa Katouzian
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2007-09-13
Total Pages: 399
ISBN-13: 1134079346
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFeaturing contributions from leading scholars of Iranian studies and / or comparative literature, this edited comprehensive and critical edited collection provides detailed scholarly analysis of Hedayat's life and work using a variety of methodological and conceptual approaches. Hedayat is the author of The Blind Owl, the most famous Persian novel both in Iran and in Europe and America. Many of his short stories are in a critical realist style and are regarded as among some of the best written in twentieth century Iran. But his most original contribution was the use of modernist, more often surrealist, techniques in Persian fiction. Thus, he was not only a great writer, but also the founder of modernism in Persian fiction. Yet both Hedayat’s life and his death came to symbolize much more than leading writers would normally claim. He still towers over modern Persian fiction and will remain a highly controversial figure so long as the clash of the modern and the traditional, the Persian and the European, and the religious and the secular, has not led to a synthesis and a consensus.
Critical Encounters
Author: Peter J. Chelkowski
Publisher:
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 186
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Author: Kamran Talattof
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2015-03-05
Total Pages: 439
ISBN-13: 1317576918
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCritical approaches to the study of topics related to Persian literature and Iranian culture have evolved in recent decades. The essays included in this volume collectively demonstrate the most recent creative approaches to the study of the Persian language, literature, and culture, and the way these methodologies have progressed academic debate. Topics covered include; culture, cognition, history, the social context of literary criticism, the problematics of literary modernity, and the issues of writing literary history. More specifically, authors explore the nuances of these topics; literature and life, poetry and nature, culture and literature, women and literature, freedom of literature, Persian language, power, and censorship, and issues related to translation and translating Persian literature in particular. In dealing with these seminal subjects, contributors acknowledge and contemplate the works of Ahmad Karimi Hakkak and other pioneering critics, analysing how these works have influenced the field of literary and cultural studies. Contributing a variety of theoretical and inter-disciplinary approaches to this field of study, this book is a valuable addition to the study of Persian poetry and prose, and to literary criticism more broadly.
