Iran: Politics, History and Literature

ISBN-13: 9780415636896 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 316 str.

Homa Katouzian

Opis

This work offers a view of Iran through politics, history and literature, showing how the three angles combine. The author also offers a detailed description of Iran's short-term society, examining the political and intellectual lives of two of the most remarkable intellectuals-cum-politicians of the twentieth century.

Spis treści

Introduction: Iran’s Long History and Short-Term Society Part 1: History and Politics 1. Legitimacy and Succession in Iranian history 2. The Short-Term Society: A Comparative Study in the Long-Term Problems of Political and Economic Development in Iran 3. The Revolution for Law: A Chronographic Analysis of the Constitutional Revolution of Iran 4. Seyyed Hasan Taqizadeh: Three Lives in a Lifetime 5. Khalil Maleki: The Odd Intellectual Out 6. The Iranian Revolution at 30: The Dialectic of State and Society Part II: Persian literature 7. Form and Substance in Classical Persian Literature 8. Sa’di’s Love Lyrics 9. Neo-classical Persian Literature: Bazgasht-e Adabi in the Nineteenth Century 10. Modern Persian Literature: From the Constitutional Revolution to the Revolution of February 1979. 11. Poet-Laureate Bahar in the Constitutional Era 12. Iraj, the Poet of Love and Humour 13. Private Parts and Public Discourses in Modern Iran 14. Jamalzadeh’s Fiction 15. Of the Sins of Forugh Farrokhzad

O autorze

Homa Katouzian is Iran Heritage Foundation Research Fellow at St Antony’s College and Member of the Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Oxford