Literary Subterfuge and Contemporary Persian Fiction: Who Writes Iran?

ISBN-13: 9780367870003 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 250 str.

Mohammad Khorrami

Opis

The main focus of Literary Subterfuge and Contemporary Persian Fiction: Who Writes Iran? is to identify components and elements which define Persian modernist fiction. 　In this process, the emphasis is placed on literary concepts and devices which provide the dynamics of the evolutionary trajectory of this modernism. This concentration al

Recenzje

"It successfully demonstrates how to write a history of literature based on the formation and evolution of literary concepts and devices and not a chronological historiography of literary productions. Literary Subterfuge and Contemporary Persian Fiction: Who Writes Iran? should be on the reading list of all graduate students in Persian and Middle Eastern studies."
M. R. Ghanoonparvar

Spis treści

Introduction 1 From Prison Reports to Prison Literture 2 Literary Rewrites of History 3 Individualistic Literary Spaces Conclusion

O autorze

Mohammad Mehdi Khorrami is Professor of Persian language and literature at New York University. His research is focused on the literary characteristics of contemporary Persian fiction and classical Persian poetry. He has authored, translated and co-edited numerous books and articles. Among his book-length publications are Modern Reflections of Classical Traditions in Persian Fiction, and Sohrab’s Wars: Counter Discourses of Contemporary Persian Fiction, which is a translated and edited collection of short stories; the co-edited and co-translated A Feast in the Mirror: A Collections of Short Stories by Iranian Women. He is the founder of The Association for the Study of Persian Literature (www.persian-literature.org)