Routledge Handbook of Post Classical and Contemporary Persian Literature [Paperback]

This handbook provides a comprehensive overview of Persian literature from the seventeenth century through to the present day. It is a companion volume to the Routledge Handbook of Ancient, Classical and Late Classical Persian Literature.

1. Content of this book and History and Categories of Persian Literature: An Introduction; 2. Modernizing the Ajam: Islam, Orientalism and the Persianate Legacy in the Poetry of Muhammad Iqbal (Sample); 3. One Thousand Years of Persian Travel Writing and Siyahatnameh-ye Ebrahim Beyg (1895) as Safarnameh (Sample); 4. Enlightenment and Its Literary Heritage: Persian-Speaking Societies of Central Asia in the Late 19^th and 20^th Centuries (Sample); 5. The Transition from Classical to Modern in Persian Poetry: What Changes Did Occur? (Sample); 6. Not to Read Silently but to Perform Publicly: Which Genre of Persian Literature is Suitable for Performance? (Sample); 7. The Movement toward Expression in 21st Century Afghan Womens Poetry; War, Senses, and Silence (Sample); 8. Humour in Hedayat (Sample); 9. The Resurrection of the Dead and the Wandering Ghosts in Sadeq Hedayats Fiction (Sample); 10. From Nima Yushij to Sohrab Sepehri: A Development of Modern Persian Poetry (Sample); 11. Persian novel and Postrevolutionary Women Novelists (Sample); 12. Experimentation in Persian Poetry during the 1930s-1950s: an analysis on the practice of poetry in the works of Mohammad Moghaddam, Zabih Behruz and Shin Partow (Sample); 13. Once Upon a Political Time: Iranian Folktales and the Refuge of Metaphoric Language (Sample); 14. Mirrors of Society: Jalal Al-e Ahmads Short Stories As Tools of Historical Analysis (Sample); 15. The Fulbright Scholar: Love Letters Between Husband and Wife in The Letters of Simin Daneshvar and Jalal Al-el³™