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Critical Encounters : essays on Persian literature and culture in honor of Peter J. Chelkowski / edited by Mohammad Mehdi Khorrami and M.R. Ghanoonparvar.

Contributor(s): Publication details: Costa Mesa, Calif. : Mazda Publishers, 2007.Description: xi, 170 p. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9781568592183 (alk. paper)
  • 1568592183
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 891/.5509
LOC classification:
  • PK6208.C44C75 2007
Contents:
The power of metaphor : ideology and politics in modern Persian, Arabic, and Turkish literatures / Kamran Talattof -- Manifestations of diversity and alterity in the Persian literary idiom / Nasrin Rahimieh -- The post-revolutionary Jamalzadeh / Paul Sprachman -- The Iranian as spectator and spectacle : theater and nationalism in the nineteenth century / Shiva Balaghi -- The game of coercion and subterfuge / M.R. Ghanoonparvar -- Paradoxical interplays : censorial and counter-censorial discourses / Shouleh Vatanabadi -- Aesthetic refinement vis-a-vis censorship : Goli Taraghi as a case study / Faridoun Farrokh -- Who writes Iran? Prison literature in the Islamic republic : "Les Damn�es du paradis" / Mohammad Mehdi Khorrami -- Manly matters in Iran : from beards to turbans / Faegheh Shirazi.

The power of metaphor : ideology and politics in modern Persian, Arabic, and Turkish literatures / Kamran Talattof -- Manifestations of diversity and alterity in the Persian literary idiom / Nasrin Rahimieh -- The post-revolutionary Jamalzadeh / Paul Sprachman -- The Iranian as spectator and spectacle : theater and nationalism in the nineteenth century / Shiva Balaghi -- The game of coercion and subterfuge / M.R. Ghanoonparvar -- Paradoxical interplays : censorial and counter-censorial discourses / Shouleh Vatanabadi -- Aesthetic refinement vis-a-vis censorship : Goli Taraghi as a case study / Faridoun Farrokh -- Who writes Iran? Prison literature in the Islamic republic : "Les Damn�es du paradis" / Mohammad Mehdi Khorrami -- Manly matters in Iran : from beards to turbans / Faegheh Shirazi.

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