Recasting American and Persian Literatures - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Recasting American and Persian Literatures write by Amirhossein Vafa. This book was released on 2016-12-09. Recasting American and Persian Literatures available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Persian Literature as World Literature
Persian Literature as World Literature - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Persian Literature as World Literature write by Mostafa Abedinifard. This book was released on 2021-07-15. Persian Literature as World Literature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Remapping Persian Literary History, 1700-1900
Remapping Persian Literary History, 1700-1900 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Remapping Persian Literary History, 1700-1900 write by Kevin L. Schwartz. This book was released on 2020-03-18. Remapping Persian Literary History, 1700-1900 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Emerson in Iran
Emerson in Iran - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Emerson in Iran write by Roger Sedarat. This book was released on 2019-06-01. Emerson in Iran available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Examines the impact of Persian poetry in the work of Ralph Waldo Emerson. Emerson in Iran is the first full-length study of Persian influence in the work of the seminal American poet, philosopher, and translator, Ralph Waldo Emerson. Extending the current trend in transnational studies back to the figural origins of both the United States and Iran, Roger Sedarat’s insightful comparative readings of Platonism and Sufi mysticism reveal how Emerson managed to reconcile through verse two countries so seemingly different in religion and philosophy. By tracking various rhetorical strategies through a close interrogation of Emerson’s own writings on language and literary appropriation, Sedarat exposes the development of a latent but considerable translation theory in the American literary tradition. He further shows how generative Persian poetry becomes during Emerson’s nineteenth century, and how such formative effects continue to influence contemporary American poetry and verse translation. “This is the book, on this subject, I have been waiting for. Indeed, Sedarat goes further than satisfying curiosity about familiar but undertheorized figures, texts, and traditions, he also reveals ones that I didn’t know I should know and care about. His prose is at once lucid and learned. He manages, with great tact and insight, to move from poet to poet, poem to poem, line to line, across time and tradition, so that the reader remains oriented to the idea at hand, and, moreover, capable of grasping its relevance to the project and its broader significance for our thinking about the legacy of Emerson’s writing and thought.” — David LaRocca, author of Emerson’s English Traits and the Natural History of Metaphor
Persian Poetry in England and America
Persian Poetry in England and America - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Persian Poetry in England and America write by John D. Yohannan. This book was released on 1977. Persian Poetry in England and America available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Comprehensive treatment of the influence of Persian poetry upon English & American literature. Contains a definitive bibliography.
