Iran : Politics, History and Literature.
This book offers a view of Iran through politics, history and literature, showing how the three angles combine. Iran, being a revolutionary society, experienced two great revolutions within the short span of just seventy years, from the 1900s to the 1970s. Both were massive revolts of the society ag...
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| Language: | English |
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Taylor and Francis,
2013
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| Series: | Iranian Studies.
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Table of Contents:
- Iran Politics, history andliterature; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Introduction: Iran's long history and short-term society; Part I History and politics; 1 Legitimacy and succession in Iranianhistory; 2 The short-term society: A comparative study in the problems of long-term political and economic development in Iran; 3 The revolution for law: A chronographic analysis of the constitutional revolution of Iran; 4 Seyyed Hasan Taqizadeh: Three lives in a lifetime; 5 Khalil Maleki: The odd intellectual out; 6 The Iranian revolution at 30: The dialectic of state and society.
- Part II Persian literature7 Classical Persian literature: form and substance; 8 Sa'di's love lyrics; 9 Neo-classical Persian literature: Bazgasht-e Adabi in the nineteenth century; 10 Modern Persian literature: From the constitutional revolution to the revolution of 1979; 11 Poet-laureate Bahar in the constitutional era; 12 Iraj, the poet of love and humour; 13 Private parts and public discourses in modern Iran; 14 Jamalzadeh's fiction; 15 Of the sins of Forugh Farrokhzad; Notes; Index.
