Persian Literature and Modernity

Production and Reception
Herausgeber: Rezaei Yazdi, Hamid; Mozafari, Arshavez

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book examines the particular socio-cultural and historical conditions that led to the production and reception of literature as modern in Iran.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Dezember 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 540g
• ISBN-13: 9781138585331
• ISBN-10: 1138585335
• Artikelnr.: 54828189

Autorenporträt

Hamid Rezaei Yazdi is an educator and researcher in the field of Middle Eastern studies, with an emphasis on the historiography of modern Iran. He received his PhD from the Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations at the University of Toronto and is currently a Professor at the Department of Liberal Studies at Humber College. Arshavez Mozafari is a historian of modern Iran based in Toronto. He received his PhD from the Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations at the University of Toronto.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction Hamid Rezaei Yazdi & Arshavez Mozafari PART 1 2. Rival Texts: Modern Persian Prose Fiction and the Myth of the Founding Father Hamid Rezaei Yazdi 3. Reactionary Interbellum Literature and the Demonic:
Alav
and Hid
yat Arshavez Mozafari 4. Linguistic Realism and Modernity: The Ontology of the Poetic from Suhraward
to Sò
ib Henry M. Bowles 5. A Predestined Break from the Past: Shi
r-i Naw, History and Hermeneutics Fateme Montazeri PART 2 6. Intimating Tehran: The Figure of the Prostitute in Iranian Popular Literature, 1920s-1970s Jairan Gahan 7. Classical Persian Canons of the Revolutionary Press: Ab
al-Q
sim L
h
t
's Circles in Istanbul and Moscow Samuel Hodgkin 8. Pneumatics of Blackness: N
ir Taqv
'
's B
d-i Jin and Modernity's Anthropological Drive Parisa Vaziri