Persian Literature and Modernity

Production and Reception
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-0-367-66360-5
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 256 Seiten, Format (B × H): 233 mm x 155 mm, Gewicht: 398 g

Reihe: Iranian Studies

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

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mozafari, Arshavez

Rezaei Yazdi, Hamid

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Strömungen & Epochen
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Regionalwissenschaften, Regionalstudien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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: 'Alavi and Hidayat Arshavez Mozafari

4. Linguistic Realism and Modernity: The Ontology of the Poetic from Suhrawardi to Sòa'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: Abu al-Qasim Lahuti’s Circles in Istanbul and Moscow Samuel Hodgkin

8. Pneumatics of Blackness: Nasir Taqva’i’s Bad-i Jin and Modernity’s Anthropological Drive Parisa Vaziri

Über Autor(innen)

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.