Losing Our Minds, Coming to Our Senses: Sensory Readings of Persian Literature and Culture

ISBN-13: 9789087283681 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 276 str.

M. Mehdi Khorrami; Amir Moosavi

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Contents
Introduction: Minds/Senses (Michael Beard)
1. Transcending the Written Text: From Dava’i’s Sensescapes to Sensorial Promiscuities in a Hafezian Banquet (M. Mehdi Khorrami)
2. Beyond Senses: Rumi’s Mystical Philosophy of Sense Perceptions (Ali-Asghar Seyed-Gohrab)
3. Ta‘ziyeh and Social Jouissance: ‘Beyond the Pleasure’ of Pain in Islamic Passion Play and Muharram Ceremonies (Sheida Dayani)
4. Seeing Red, Hearing the Revolution: The Multi-Sensory Appeal of Shuresh Neda Bolourchi
5. Radical Openness in Forugh Farrokhzad’s The House is Black Shabnam Piryaei
6. Feminine Sense Versus Common Sense in Two Persian Folktales from Iran: ‘A Girl’s Loyalty’ and ‘Seven Poplar Trees’ (Yass Alizadeh)
7. Sonic Triggers and Fiery Pools: The Senses at War in Hossein Mortezaeian Abkenar’s Scorpion (Amir Moosavi)
8. The Sensorium of Exile: The Case of Elyas Alavi and Gloria Anzaldúa (Fatemeh Shams)
9. Making Sense of the Senses: A Sensory Reading of Moniro Ravanipour’s These Crazy Nights (M. R. Ghanoonparvar)
Contributors
Index