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Bright Diversities of Day

Essays on Persian Literature and Culture in Honor of M. R. Ghanoonparvar

Series: Festschrift
Availability: In stock
Published: 2017
Page #: xii + 194
Size: 6 x 9
ISBN: 978-1-56859-345-6
bibliography, notes, references

 
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Affectionately known as Moh among colleagues and friends, Mohammad Reza Ghanoonpoarvar has been a prominent figure in the field of Persian language and literature for the past thirty years. He is credited with pioneering work in the interpretation and analysis of contemporary Iranian culture and creating a vast reserve of scholarship on many of its aspects including fiction, film, and culinary arts. This volume treats of a range of contemporary phenomena in Iranian and Persianist studies including the emerging trends in fiction and creative writing in light of vicissitudes in the social and political atmosphere of Iran, approaches to the publication of classical Persian literature in Central Asian republics, as well as developments in cultural mores and approaches to doctrinal issues. It is a tribute by some among Ghanoonparvar’s numberless admirers to mark the occasion of his recent retirement from the University of Texas as Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature.

Faridoun Farrokh

A Note from the Publisher ix
Preface xi

1
Design, Evaluation, and Selection of Textbooks
for Persian as a Foreign Language
Shahla Adel

2
Power, Tutelage, and Truth:
Faiz Muhammad (“Kātib”) and Modern
Historiography in Afghanistan
Wali Ahmadi

3
Makhmalbaf in Retrospect:
Narrative in Freeze-Frame
Faridoun Farrokh

4
Translations and Imitations of the Shahnameh
In Turkish Lands
Hasan Javadi

5
Poets, Scribes, and Scholars: Persian Literature
From Manuscript to Critical Edition
Ahmad Karimi-Hakkak

6
Playing Hat Tricks with History
Nasrin Rahimieh

7
A Space Too Narrow: Reconsidering
Parvin E’tesami (1907-1941)
Rivanne Sandler

8
Arizeh Nevisi: Petitioning to Al Mahdi,
Imam Zaman in Jamkarn Mosque Iran
Faegheh Shirazi

9
State-Sponsored Serial Murder in Film
and Fiction Banned in Iran 158
Paul Sprachman

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