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The Layered Heart: Essays on Persian Poetry, A Celebration in Honor of Dick Davis

The Layered Heart: Essays on Persian Poetry, A Celebration in Honor of Dick Davis

Seyed-Ghorab, Ali-Asghar

Hardcover

Poetry Criticism

ISBN10: 1933823976
ISBN13: 9781933823973
Publisher: Mage Publ Inc
Published: Oct 29 2018
Pages: 676
Weight: 2.66
Height: 1.63 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

The Layered Heart  Essays on Persian Poetry is published in celebration of the poet and scholar Dick Davis, dubbed our pre-eminent translator from Persian by The Washington Post. Edited by Ali-Asghar Seyed-Ghorab, Associate Professor of Persian at Leiden University, the volume includes twenty-one essays about Persian culture and literature, ranging from classical Persian poetry to modern literary topics. Written by foremost scholars in the field, each of the essays is original and ground-breaking either in content or in methodology, while together they encompass a broad sweep of Iranian history, from pre-Islamic times to the present. They offer a fascinating, multi-faceted view of the Persian classics - from poetry in praise of wine, and the portrayal of love in Persian-European medieval romances, to an examination of Ferdowsi's monumental epic, the Shahnameh, its connection with the Persian oral tradition and its later reception in Iran, Afghanistan, India, and Europe. Modern topics include an analysis of Lahuti's letter poem to Joseph Stalin, published for the first time in Persian and English, the celebrated novel My Uncle Napoleon, and trends in poetry before and after the Iranian Revolution of 1979.

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