Recasting American And Persian Literatures

Author : Amirhossein Vafa
Publisher : Springer
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2016-12-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783319404691

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Recasting American and Persian Literatures by Amirhossein Vafa Pdf

Reading literary and cinematic events between and beyond American and Persian literatures, this book questions the dominant geography of the East-West divide, which charts the global circulation of texts as World Literature. Beyond the limits of national literary historiography, and neocolonial cartography of world literary discourse, the minor character Parsee Fedallah in Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick (1851) is a messenger who travels from the margins of the American literature canon to his Persian literary counterparts in contemporary Iranian fiction and film, above all, the rural woman Mergan in Mahmoud Dowlatabadi’s novel Missing Soluch (1980). In contention with Eurocentric treatments of world literatures, and in recognition of efforts to recast the worldliness of American and Persian literatures, this book maintains that aesthetic properties are embedded in their local histories and formative geographies.

Author : Mostafa Abedinifard,Omid Azadibougar,Amirhossein Vafa
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2021-07-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781501354212

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Persian Literature as World Literature by Mostafa Abedinifard,Omid Azadibougar,Amirhossein Vafa Pdf

Confronting 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.

Author : Ahmad Karimi-Hakkak
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015037756718

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Recasting Persian Poetry by Ahmad Karimi-Hakkak Pdf

Author : Ahmad Karimi-Hakkak
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Government publications
ISBN : UCSC:32106013219255

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Recasting Persian Poetry by Ahmad Karimi-Hakkak Pdf

Author : Kevin L. Schwartz
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2020-03-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781474450867

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Remapping Persian Literary History, 1700-1900 by Kevin L. Schwartz Pdf

Integrating forgotten tales of literary communities across Iran, Afghanistan and South Asia - at a time when Islamic empires were fracturing and new state formations were emerging - this book offers a more global understanding of Persian literary culture in the 18th and 19th centuries. It challenges the manner in which Iranian nationalism has infilitrated Persian literary history writing and recovers the multi-regional breadth and vibrancy of a global lingua franca connecting peoples and places across Islamic Eurasia. Focusing on 3 case studies (18th-century Isfahan, a small court in South India and the literary climate of the Anglo-Afghan war), it reveals the literary and cultural ties that bound this world together as well as some of the trends that broke it apart.

Author : Naghmeh Esmaeilpour
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2024-05-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781040010334

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Interactions Between Iranian and American Literatures by Naghmeh Esmaeilpour Pdf

Introducing "narrative mobility" as a new approach in comparative studies of Iran and the US, this book reinterprets the politics and aesthetics of relations between the nations through an analysis of Iranian and American authors. The book focuses specifically on three authors—Simin Daneshvar, Shahriar Mandanipour, and Don DeLillo—who each employ narrative mobility to rethink intercultural negotiation, addressing parallel issues in America and Iran from different, but complementary, perspectives. The book analyzes the employment of parallel narrational techniques, presenting physically and virtually mobile characters who embody their respective countries as they move from one culture to another. The strange affinity between Iran and the US is ultimately revealed by viewing literary works as a "contact zone" through which the complicated relations and shared history of the two nations can be renegotiated. On a more theoretical level, the book reflects on the role of literature—in particular the novel as a transnational medium—as a bridge between nations in a period of globalization. With its focus on cross-cultural connections, the book will be of interest to anyone studying or researching comparative literature, US–Iran relations, and cultural studies generally.

Author : Hamid Rezaei Yazdi,Arshavez Mozafari
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2018-12-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780429999611

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Persian Literature and Modernity by Hamid Rezaei Yazdi,Arshavez Mozafari Pdf

Persian 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.

Author : Mostafa Abedinifard,Omid Azadibougar,Amirhossein Vafa
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2021-07-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781501354205

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Persian Literature as World Literature by Mostafa Abedinifard,Omid Azadibougar,Amirhossein Vafa Pdf

Confronting 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.

Author : John D. Yohannan
Publisher : Academic Resources Corp
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : UOM:39015005731479

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Persian Poetry in England and America by John D. Yohannan Pdf

Comprehensive treatment of the influence of Persian poetry upon English & American literature. Contains a definitive bibliography.

Author : Bo Utas
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2021-07-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780755617807

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Persian Prose by Bo Utas Pdf

Volume V of A History of Persian Literature presents a broad survey of Persian prose: from biographical, historiographical, and didactic prose, to scientific manuals and works of popular prose fiction. It analyzes the rhetorical devices employed by writers in different periods in their philosophical and political discourse; or when their aim is primarily to entertain rather than to instruct , the chapters describe different techniques used to transform old stories and familiar tales into novel versions to entice their audience. Many of the texts in prose cited in the volume share a wealth of common lore and literary allusions with Persian poetry. Prose and poetry frequently appear on the same page in tandem. In different ways, therefore, this creative interplay demonstrates the perennial significance of intertextuality, from the earliest times to the present; and help us in the process to further our understanding and enhance our enjoyment of Persian literature in its different manifestations throughout history

Author : Elizabeth A. Reed
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2022-09-04
Category : History
ISBN : EAN:8596547224570

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Persian Literature, Ancient and Modern by Elizabeth A. Reed Pdf

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Persian Literature, Ancient and Modern" by Elizabeth A. Reed. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Author : J.T.P. Bruijn
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2008-10-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780857736505

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General Introduction to Persian Literature by J.T.P. Bruijn Pdf

Persian literature is the jewel in the crown of Persian culture. It has profoundly influenced the literatures of Ottoman Turkey, Muslim India and Turkic Central Asia and been a source of inspiration for Goethe, Emerson, Matthew Arnold and Jorge Luis Borges among others. Yet Persian literature has never received the attention it truly deserves."A History of Persian Literature" answers this need and offers a new, comprehensive and detailed history of its subject. This 18-volume, authoritative survey reflects the stature and significance of Persian literature as the single most important accomplishment of the Iranian experience. It includes extensive, revealing examples with contributions by prominent scholars who bring a fresh critical approach to bear on this important topic.The first volume offers an indispensable entree to Persian literature's long and rich history, examining themes and subjects that are common to many fields of Persian literary study. This invaluable introduction to the subject heralds a definitive and ground-breaking new series.

Author : Omid Azadibougar
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2020-02-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789811516917

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World Literature and Hedayat’s Poetics of Modernity by Omid Azadibougar Pdf

This book introduces the canonical figure Sadegh Hedayat (1903–1951) and draws a comprehensive image of a major intellectual force in the context of both modern Persian Literature and World Literature. A prolific writer known for his magnum opus, The Blind Owl (1936), Hedayat established the use of common language for literary purposes, opened new horizons on imaginative literature and explored a variety of genres in his creative career. This book looks beyond the reductive critical tendencies that read a rich and diverse literary profile in light of Hedayat’s suicide, arguing instead that his literary imagination was not solely the result of genius but rather enriched by a vast network of the world’s literary traditions. This study reflects on Hedayat’s attempts at various genres of artistic creation, including painting, fiction writing, satire and scholarly research, as well as his persistent struggles for artistic authenticity, which transcended solidly established literary and artistic norms. Providing a critical reading of Hedayat’s work to untangle aspects of his writing – including reflections on science, religion, nationalism and coloniality – alongside his pioneering work on folk culture, and how humor informs his writings, this text offers a critical review of the status of Persian literature in the contemporary landscape of the world’s literary studies.

Author : Suzanne Pinckney Stetkevych
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1994-03-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0253354935

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Reorientations / Arabic and Persian Poetry by Suzanne Pinckney Stetkevych Pdf

Employing contemporary literary theory, eight members of the "Chicago school" of Arabic and Persian literature reorient the critical approach to classical Middle Eastern literature. The authors analyze a broad spectrum of poetry, ranging from the pre-Islamic ode of the sixth century to seventeenth-century Persian Safavid Moghul verse. Among issues considered are the ritual and sacrificial aspects of literature, the transition from orality to literacy, the iconographical and mythic dimensions of philology, and imitation as a form of creation. The inclusion of contemporary translations of all the poems discussed is an important feature for students of Middle Eastern literature and comparative poetics.

Author : Morteza Yazdanjoo
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2022-12-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000822021

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Modern American Literature and Contemporary Iranian Cinema by Morteza Yazdanjoo Pdf

As an endeavor to contribute to the burgeoning field of comparative literature, this monograph addresses the dynamic yet understudied "intertextual dialogism" between modern American literature and contemporary Iranian Cinema, pinpointing how the latter appropriates and recontextualizes instances of the former to construct and inculcate vestiges of national/gender identity on the silver screen. Drawing on Louis Montrose’s catchphrase that Cultural Materialism foregrounds "the textuality of history, [and] the historicity of texts", this book contends that literary "texts" are synchronic artifacts prone to myriad intertextual and extra-textual readings and understandings, each historically conditioned. The recontextualization of Herzog, Franny and Zooey, The Glass Menagerie, A Streetcar Named Desire, and Death of a Salesman into contemporary Iran provides an intertextual avenue to delineate the textuality of history and the historicity of texts