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Author:   Kamran Talattof (University of Arizona, USA)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.940kg
ISBN:  

9781138567306

ISBN 10:   1138567302
Pages:   562
Publication Date:   05 June 2023
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

1. Content of this book and History and Categories of Persian Literature: An Introduction; 2. Modernizing the ‘Ajam: Islam, Orientalism and the Persianate Legacy in the Poetry of Muhammad Iqbal (Sample); 3. One Thousand Years of Persian Travel Writing and Siyahatnameh-ye Ebrahim Beyg (1895) as Safarnameh (Sample); 4. Enlightenment and Its Literary Heritage: Persian-Speaking Societies of Central Asia in the Late 19th and 20th Centuries (Sample); 5. The Transition from Classical to Modern in Persian Poetry: What Changes Did Occur? (Sample); 6. Not to Read Silently but to Perform Publicly: Which Genre of Persian Literature is Suitable for Performance? (Sample); 7. The Movement toward Expression in 21st Century Afghan Women’s Poetry; War, Senses, and Silence (Sample); 8. Humour in Hedayat (Sample); 9. The Resurrection of the Dead and the Wandering Ghosts in Sadeq Hedayat’s Fiction (Sample); 10. From Nima Yushij to Sohrab Sepehri: A Development of Modern Persian Poetry (Sample); 11. Persian novel and Postrevolutionary Women Novelists (Sample); 12. Experimentation in Persian Poetry during the 1930s-1950s: an analysis on the practice of poetry in the works of Mohammad Moghaddam, Zabih Behruz and Shin Partow (Sample); 13. Once Upon a Political Time: Iranian Folktales and the Refuge of Metaphoric Language (Sample); 14. Mirrors of Society: Jalal Al-e Ahmad’s Short Stories As Tools of Historical Analysis (Sample); 15. The Fulbright Scholar: Love Letters Between Husband and Wife in The Letters of Simin Daneshvar and Jalal Al-e Ahmad (2004) (Sample); 16. Time and Again: Innovation and Repetition in the Poetry of H.E. Sayeh (Sample); 17. Persian Novels of the Iran-Iraq War (1980-1988) (Sample); 18. Polyphony and Ambiguity in Shahriar Mandanipour’s The Courage of Love (Sample); 19. The Gypsy: A Daughter’s Poetry and Unsent Letters to a Mother in With My Mother: My Autobiography (2011) by Simin Behbahani (Sample); 20. On Translating and English Translations of Persian Literature (Sample); 21. Literary Criticism in Contemporary Iran: A Survey of Indigenous and Western Theories (Sample); 22. Nomadic Cartographies: Rebellion, Embodiment, and Feminist Subjectivity in Persian Exilic poetry (Sample); 23. Intergenerational Conflicts: Experiences of Discrimination and Racialization in Recent Iranian Diasporic Novels (Sample); 24. Teaching Persian Narrative Texts: Efficacy of a Combined Strategy to Understand Kelileh o Demneh (Sample)

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Kamran Talattof is Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali Chair in Persian and Iranian Studies and the Founding Chair of the Roshan Graduate Interdisciplinary Program in Persian and Iranian Studies at the University of Arizona, USA.

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