Critical encounters
Subtitle: essays on Persian literature and culture in honor of Peter Chelkowski
By: edited by Mohammad Mehdi Khorrami and M. R. Ghanoonparvar.
Contributors: Khorrami, Mohammad Mehdi.; Ghanoonparvar, M. R.; Chelkowski, Peter J.
Publisher: Mazda Publishers
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Costa Mesa, CA
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781568592183
Subjects: Persian literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: The power of metaphor : ideology and politics in modern Persian, Arabic, and Turkish literatures / Kamran Talattof; title: Manifestations of diversity and alterity in the Persian literary idiom / Nasrin Rahimieh; title: The post-revolutionary Jamalzadeh / Paul Sprachman; title: The Iranian as spectator and spectacle : theater and nationalism in the nineteenth century / Shiva Balaghi; title: The game of coercion and subterfuge / M. R. Ghanoonparvar; title: Paradoxical interplays : censorial and counter-censorial discourses / Shouleh Vatanabadi; title: Aesthetic refinement vis-a-vis censorship : Goli Taraghi as a Case Study / Faridoun Farrokh; title: Who writes Iran? Prison literature in the Islamic republic : "Les Damnées du paradis" / Mohammad Mehdi Khorrami; title: Manly matters in Iran : from beards to turbans / Faegheh Shirazi.