The Art of Teaching Persian Literature

The Art of Teaching Persian Literature
Author: Franklin Lewis
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2024-08-29
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9789004513112

The Art of Teaching Persian Literature: From Theory to Practice maps the spread of Persian literature as it has been taught around the world from a thematic, theoretical, historical, and practical point of view.

The Art of Teaching Persian Literature

The Art of Teaching Persian Literature
Author: Franklin Lewis
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 435
Release: 2024-08-29
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9004513124

This unique book is the first publication on the art of teaching Persian literature in English, consisting of 18 chapters by prominent early-career, mid-career and established scholars, who generously share their experiences and methodologies in teaching both classical and modern Persian literature across various academic traditions in the world. The volume is divided into three parts: the background to teaching Persian literature: pedagogy, translation and canon, and thematic and topical approaches to the Persian literature class. It includes such topics as the history of teaching Persian literature, the traditional teaching of Persian literature, the political and ideological intentions revealed in the formation of the Persian literature curriculum, the necessity to include marginalized modern Persian literature, such as women’s or diaspora literature, and more applied approaches to curriculum development and teaching. Contributors Manizheh Abdollahi, Samad Alavi, Natalia Chalisova, Cameron Cross, Dick Davis, M. R. Ghanoonparvar, Persis Karim, Sooyong Kim, Daniela Meneghini, Jane Mikkelson, Amir Moosavi, Evgeniya Nikitenko, Austin O’Malley, Farideh Pourgiv, Nasrin Rahimieh, Ali-Asghar Seyed-Gohrab, Pouneh Shabani-Jadidi, Farshad Sonboldel, Claudia Yaghoobi, and Mohammad Jafar Yahaghi.

Iran and the Deccan

Iran and the Deccan
Author: Keelan Overton
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Total Pages: 466
Release: 2020-06-02
Genre: Art
ISBN: 025304894X

In the early 1400s, Iranian elites began migrating to the Deccan plateau of southern India. Lured to the region for many reasons, these poets, traders, statesmen, and artists of all kinds left an indelible mark on the Islamic sultanates that ruled the Deccan until the late seventeenth century. The result was the creation of a robust transregional Persianate network linking such distant cities as Bidar and Shiraz, Bijapur and Isfahan, and Golconda and Mashhad. Iran and the Deccan explores the circulation of art, culture, and talent between Iran and the Deccan over a three-hundred-year period. Its interdisciplinary contributions consider the factors that prompted migration, the physical and intellectual poles of connectivity between the two regions, and processes of adaptation and response. Placing the Deccan at the center of Indo-Persian and early modern global history, Iran and the Deccan reveals how mobility, liminality, and cultural translation nuance the traditional methods and boundaries of the humanities.

Basic Persian

Basic Persian
Author: Saeed Yousef
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 286
Release: 2020-03-27
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 0429559623

This fully revised second edition of Basic Persian: A Grammar and Workbook comprises an accessible reference grammar and related exercises in a single volume. This book presents twenty grammar units, covering the core material which students would expect to encounter in their first year of learning Persian. Grammar points are followed by multiple examples and exercises which allow students to reinforce and consolidate their learning. Key features include: • a clear, accessible format • many useful language examples • jargon-free explanations of grammar • abundant exercises with full answer key • a glossary of Persian-English terms • a subject index Rigorous yet engaging, Basic Persian is suitable for both class use and independent study, making it an ideal grammar reference and practice resource for both beginners and students with some knowledge of the language.

Metaphor and Imagery in Persian Poetry

Metaphor and Imagery in Persian Poetry
Author: Ali Asghar Seyed-Gohrab
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 291
Release: 2011-10-14
Genre: History
ISBN: 9004217649

This volume is a collection of essays on classical Persian literature, focusing on Persian rhetorical devices, especially imagery and metaphors. The various contributions discuss the origin and the development of debate poetry, the transmission of Persian and Arabic tales to the works of Europeans medieval authors such as Boccaccio and Chaucer, but also the development of Aristotelian poetics and epistemology in Persian philosophical tradition. Furthermore, the baroque style of the Shiʿite author Ḥusayn Vāʾiẓ Kāshifī, the use of wine metaphors by mystics such as Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī, Ḥāfiẓ’s original use of candle metaphors, the translation of Khayyām’s metaphors into English, and the importance of a single metaphor in the epic Barzū-nāma are discussed. Contributors include: F. Abdullaeva, G.R. van den Berg, J. Landau, F.D. Lewis, N. Pourjavady, Ch. van Ruymbeke, A. Sedighi and S. Sharma

The Routledge Handbook of Persian Literary Translation

The Routledge Handbook of Persian Literary Translation
Author: Pouneh Shabani-Jadidi
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 609
Release: 2022-07-08
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 1000583422

The Routledge Handbook of Persian Literary Translation offers a detailed overview of the field of Persian literature in translation, discusses the development of the field, gives critical expression to research on Persian literature in translation, and brings together cutting-edge theoretical and practical research. The book is divided into the following three parts: (I) Translation of Classical Persian Literature, (II) Translation of Modern Persian Literature, and (III) Persian Literary Translation in Practice. The chapters of the book are authored by internationally renowned scholars in the field, and the volume is an essential reference for scholars and their advanced students as well as for those researching in related areas and for independent translators of Persian literature.

Religion, Culture, and Politics in Pre-Islamic Iran

Religion, Culture, and Politics in Pre-Islamic Iran
Author: Bruce Lincoln
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 433
Release: 2021-06-22
Genre: History
ISBN: 9004460292

In Religion, Culture, and Politics in Pre-Islamic Iran, Bruce Lincoln offers a vast overview on different aspects of the Indo-Iranian, Zoroastrian and Pre-Islamic mythologies, religions and cultural issues.

The Art of Persian Dance

The Art of Persian Dance
Author: Denise Logsdon
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2015-02-01
Genre:
ISBN: 9780692364635

An instructional book on Persian dance technique, including understanding Persian aesthetics, music, and dynamic expression.

Persian Prose

Persian Prose
Author: Ehsan Yarshater
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 602
Release: 2021-08-12
Genre: History
ISBN: 1845119061

Persian literature is the jewel in the crown of Persian culture. It has profoundly influenced the literatures of Ottoman Turkey, Muslim India and Turkic Central Asia and has been a source of inspiration for Goethe, Emerson, Matthew Arnold and Jorge Luis Borges among others. Yet Persian literature has never received the attention it truly deserves. 'A History of Persian Literature' answers this need and offers a new, comprehensive and detailed history of its subject.