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Author : Hasan Javadi
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Satire in Persian Literature written by Hasan Javadi and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Homa Katouzian
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0755652134
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (556 download)
Download or read book Humour in Iran written by Homa Katouzian and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-12-14 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Satire, irony and humour have long been features of Persian literature's rich tradition, taking various forms from the coarse and obscene to the subtle and refined. Humour in Iran is a close and comprehensive study of satire and humour in verse as well as prose over the eleven-hundred years since the emergence of classical Persian literature. Combining Persian original texts with their English translations, it covers a range of texts and authors, from the lampoon in Ferdowsi's great epic of the ancient kings in the tenth century, through such master satirists as Obeyd Zakani, Sa'di, Rumi, Khayyam, Hafiz, Anvari, Sana'i, Khaqani, Suzani, Qa'ani, Yaghma, and so on. The book also includes twentieth century authors such as Iraj, Dehkhoda, Bahar, Eshqi, Aref, Hedayat, Jamalzadeh, Al-e Ahmad and more. A must read for scholars and students of humour and satire as well as Persian literature and Middle Eastern studies, and it will also appeal to general readers interested in ribald humour and satire.
Author : Riccardo Zipoli
Publisher : Leiden University Press
ISBN 13 : 9789087282271
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (822 download)
Download or read book Irreverent Persia written by Riccardo Zipoli and published by Leiden University Press. This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetry expressing criticism of social, political and cultural life is a vital integral part of Persian literary history. Its principal genres - invective, satire and burlesque - have been very popular with authors in every age. Despite the rich uninterrupted tradition, such texts have been little studied and rarely translated. Their irreverent tones range from subtle irony to crude direct insults, at times involving the use of outrageous and obscene terms. This anthology includes both major and minor poets from the origins of Persian poetry (10th century) up to the age of Jâmi (15th century), traditionally considered the last great classical Persian poet. In addition to their historical and linguistic interest, many of these poems deserve to be read for their technical and aesthetic accomplishments, setting them among the masterpieces of Persian literature.
Author : Riccardo Zipoli
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789400602137
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (21 download)
Download or read book Irreverent Persia written by Riccardo Zipoli and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mahmud Farjami
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9027265755
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)
Download or read book Iranian Political Satirists written by Mahmud Farjami and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2017-05-18 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume surveys political satire as a journalistic genre in Iran since the latter days of the Qajar dynasty to the present, thus spanning one century and more. It is an important resource, but it also provides an analysis. Moreover, this volume is a rare effort to answer a question that looks simple but is very complicated: “Why would someone produce satire, knowing that this act might be followed by dangerous consequences?”, and to find out what motivates political satirists. For this aim, nine prominent political satirists have been interviewed: writers and cartoonists, men and women, those who live abroad and those who still live in Iran. The author analyses this data in relation to, among other things, the main theories of humor to provide a descriptive report for each satirist’s motivations as well as the strength of each motivational element in a general comparative context.
Author : Ali-Akbar Dehkhoda
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300220669
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Charand-o Parand written by Ali-Akbar Dehkhoda and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2016-05-24 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A classic of Modern Persian literature, Charand-o Parand (Stuff and Nonsense) is a work familiar to every literate Iranian. Originally a series of newspaper columns written by scholar and satirist Ali-Akbar Dehkhoda, the pieces poke fun at mullahs, the shah, and the old religious and political order during the Constitutional Revolution in Iran (1906–11). The essays were the Daily Show of their era. The columns were heatedly debated in the Iranian parliament, and the newspaper was shut down on several occasions for its criticism of the religious establishment. Translated by two distinguished scholars of Persian language and history, this volume makes Dehkhoda’s entertaining political observations available to English readers for the first time.
Author : Hasan Javadi
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Persian Literary Influence on English Literature written by Hasan Javadi and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Hasan Javadi presents a survey of the subject often only briefly mentioned, or entirely disregarded, in many histories of English Literature. Students of that literature know of Edward FitzGerald's Ruba'iyyat or Matthew Arnold's Sohrab and Rustum, but many are unaware of the fascination that the East, including Persia, has exercised over European minds. Though dealing primarily with English literature, Javadi includes in his account some continental European Orientalists of note as well. Beginning in the late Middle Ages when the Bible and the classics were the main sources of information about Persia; the book covers the 16th and 17th centuries, when travel was beginning to increase Western knowledge about the East. There is a detailed account of Persian themes in Romantic poetry and prose, and a discussion of the works of travelers and novelists such as James Morier, whose Hajji Baba of Ispahan is still a popular novel for many Iranians."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : A. A. Seyed-Gohrab
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0857739166
Total Pages : 603 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (577 download)
Download or read book Literature of the Early Twentieth Century: From the Constitutional Period to Reza Shah written by A. A. Seyed-Gohrab and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-07-22 with total page 603 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The eleventh volume in this ground-breaking series pays special attention to politically engaged poetry, written during a turbulent period which saw the Constitutional Revolution in Iran as well as the rise to power of Reza Shah and his attempts to implement reform. Throughout this time, poets began to turn their attention towards the country's ordinary people, rather than concentrate on its elites. This volume also examines the prose fiction of the period, which saw the rise of the novel and short story. Additionally, Persian satire began to grow in importance, especially with the increased popularity of poets and novelists such as Iraj Mirza and Sadeq Hedayat. This wide-ranging volume is an invaluable companion for anyone who wants to understand how the Persian literary scene changed at the beginning of the twentieth century, reflecting the social and political contexts in which this literature was created
Author : A. A. Seyed-Gohrab
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0857725521
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (577 download)
Download or read book Literature of the Early Twentieth Century: From the Constitutional Period to Reza Shah written by A. A. Seyed-Gohrab and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-07-22 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The eleventh volume in this ground-breaking series pays special attention to politically engaged poetry, written during a turbulent period which saw the Constitutional Revolution in Iran as well as the rise to power of Reza Shah and his attempts to implement reform. Throughout this time, poets began to turn their attention towards the country's ordinary people, rather than concentrate on its elites. This volume also examines the prose fiction of the period, which saw the rise of the novel and short story. Additionally, Persian satire began to grow in importance, especially with the increased popularity of poets and novelists such as Iraj Mirza and Sadeq Hedayat. This wide-ranging volume is an invaluable companion for anyone who wants to understand how the Persian literary scene changed at the beginning of the twentieth century, reflecting the social and political contexts in which this literature was created
Author : Reuben Levy
Publisher : London : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (4 download)
Download or read book Persian Literature written by Reuben Levy and published by London : Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1923 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Hamid Rezaei Yazdi
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429999615
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)
Download or read book Persian Literature and Modernity written by Hamid Rezaei Yazdi and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-12-07 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Persian Literature and Modernity recasts the history of modern literature in Iran by elucidating the bonds between the classical tradition and modernity and exploring textual, generic and discursive formations through heterodoxical investigations. This is first done through the rehabilitation of concepts embedded in tradition, including the munāzirah (debate), Ahrīman (the demonic), tajarrud (radical aloneness) and nāriz̤āyatī (discontent). Following this are broader structural and processual treatments, including the emergence of the genre of the social novel, the international dimension of Persian and Persianate canon formation, and the development of salvage ethnography and anthropological discourse in Iran. Covering literary experiments from the twelfth to the twentieth centuries, the chapters in this volume make a case for stepping outside the bounds of orthodox literary scholarship in Iranian studies with its associated political and orientalist determinants in order to provide a more nuanced conception of literary modernity in Iran. Offering an alternative reading of modernity in Persian literature, this book is an invaluable resource for scholars and students interested in the history of modern Iran and Persian Literature.
Author : Ubayd Zakani
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781512182965
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (829 download)
Download or read book Ubayd Zakani - Poetry, Prose, Satire, Jokes, Ribaldry written by Ubayd Zakani and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-05-21 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: UBAYD ZAKANI Poetry, Prose, Satire, Jokes, Ribaldry. Translation and Introduction Paul Smith Ubayd Zakani is an important a figure in Persian and Sufi literature and poetry. His satire, humorous stories, ribald and obscene poems, social commentary, mystical ghazals, prose, ruba'is, qit'as and his famous epic qasida 'Cat & Mouse' are popular today and are more relevant than ever. He is considered to be one of the world's greatest satirist and social-commentator whose life and mystical poems had a great influence on his student and friend Hafiz and many others. This is the largest selection of his works available in English. The correct rhyme-structure has been kept as well as the beauty and meaning of these sometimes rude, funny and mystical poems and prose. Illustrated. 7" x 10" large edition 357 pages. COMMENTS ON PAUL SMITH'S TRANSLATION OF HAFIZ'S 'DIVAN'. "It is not a joke... the English version of ALL the ghazals of Hafiz is a great feat and of paramount importance. I am astonished." Dr. Mir Mohammad Taghavi (Dr. of Literature) Tehran. "Superb translations. 99% Hafiz 1% Paul Smith." Ali Akbar Shapurzman, translator of many mystical works in English into Persian and knower of Hafiz's Divan off by heart. "I was very impressed with the beauty of these books." Dr. R.K. Barz. Faculty of Asian Studies, Australian National University. "Smith has probably put together the greatest collection of literary facts and history concerning Hafiz." Daniel Ladinsky (Penguin Books author of poems inspired by Hafiz). Paul Smith is a poet, author and translator of over 150 books of Sufi poets of the Persian, Arabic, Urdu, Turkish, Pashtu and other languages... including Hafiz, Sadi, Nizami, Rumi, 'Attar, Sana'i, Jahan Khatun, Ubayd Zakani, Nesimi, Kabir, Anvari, Ansari, Jami, Khayyam, Rudaki, Yunus Emre, Lalla Ded, Ghalib, Rahman Baba, Makhfi, Amir Khusrau, 'Iraqi, Iqbal, Ibn Farid, Abu Nuwas, Dara Shikoh and many others, as well as his own poetry, fiction, plays, biographies, children's books and screenplays. www.newhumanitybooks.com
Author : Aḥmad Tamīmʹdārī
Publisher : Alhoda UK
ISBN 13 : 9789644723667
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (236 download)
Download or read book The Book of Iran written by Aḥmad Tamīmʹdārī and published by Alhoda UK. This book was released on 2002 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : J. Rypka
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9401034796
Total Pages : 942 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (1 download)
Download or read book History of Iranian Literature written by J. Rypka and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-11-11 with total page 942 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some justification seems to be necessary for the addition of yet another History of Iranian Literature to the number of those already in existence. Such a work must obviously contain as many novel features as possible, so that a short explanation of what my collaborators and I had in mind when planning the book is perhaps not superfluous. In the first place our object was to present a short summary of the material in all its aspects, and secondly to review the subject from the chronological, geo graphical and substantial standpoints - all within the compass of a single volume. Such a scheme precludes a formal and complete enumeration of names and phenom ena, and renders all the greater the obligation to accord most prominence to matters deemed to be of greatest importance, supplementing these with such figures and forms as will enable an impression to be gained of the period in question - all this is far as possible in the light of the most recent discoveries. A glance at the table of contents will suffice to give an idea of the multifarious approach that has been our aim. We begin at the very first traces of evidence bearing on our subject and continue the narrative up to the present day. Geographically the book embraces Iran and its neighbouring countries, while it should be remarked that Iranian literature in its fullest sense also includes Indo-Persian and Judeo-Persian works.
Author : Dominic Parviz Brookshaw
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780674066700
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (667 download)
Download or read book Ruse and Wit written by Dominic Parviz Brookshaw and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These essays examine a millennium of humorous and satirical writing in the Islamic world. Humor in Arabic, Persian, and Turkish narrative emerges here as a culturally modulated phenomenon that demands examination with reference to its historical framework and that, in turn, communicates as much about its producers as it does about its audience.
Author : Iraj Pezeshkzad
Publisher : Modern Library
ISBN 13 : 0812974433
Total Pages : 530 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (129 download)
Download or read book My Uncle Napoleon written by Iraj Pezeshkzad and published by Modern Library. This book was released on 2006-04-11 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most beloved Iranian novel of the twentieth century “God forbid, I’ve fallen in love with Layli!” So begins the farce of our narrator’s life, one spent in a large extended Iranian family lorded over by the blustering, paranoid patriarch, Dear Uncle Napoleon. When Uncle Napoleon’s least-favorite nephew falls for his daughter, Layli, family fortunes are reversed, feuds fired up and resolved, and assignations attempted and thwarted. First published in Iran in the 1970s and adapted into a hugely successful television series, this beloved novel is now “Suggested Reading” in Azar Nafisi’s Reading Lolita in Tehran. My Uncle Napoleon is a timeless and universal satire of first love and family intrigue.
Author : Niẓām al-Dīn ʻUbayd Zākānī
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Obeyd-e Zakani written by Niẓām al-Dīn ʻUbayd Zākānī and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Obeyd-e Zakani, who died in 1372 is among the great poets of Iran but little known in the West. This selection of his work is the first to be translated into English. Obeyd was a remarkable satirist and social critic who looked upon his world of extravagant indulgence and corruption with the censorious eyes of a Juvenal, and portrayed it with the cynicism and wit of a Voltaire, and the hilarious grotesqueness of a Rabelais. He used scathing stories and sardonic maxims to paint a world full of deceit, greed, lust, sycophancy, and perversion, where old values and virtues were scorned and extremes of wealth and poverty, violence and bloodshed were the order of the day.
