
The Layered Heart
Essays on Persian Poetry, A Celebration in Honor of Dick DavisIn Stock
ISBN: 9781933823973
Hardback
676 Pages
Subjects:
Literature: history & criticism
Literary studies: poetry & poets
Iran
This book has been 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 Ferdowsis 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 Lahutis 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.
Ali-Asghar Seyed-Ghorab received his PhD from Leiden University where he has been teaching since 1997. He is currently Associate Professor of Persian at the Department of Middle Eastern Studies and is the track-leader of the Persian and Iranian Studies program. He has taught a wide range of courses: classical and modern Persian literature, Sufism, Introduction to Area Studies, Introduction to Shiism, Iranian cinema, Literature and Politics in Persian Speaking world, and Classical Persian Poetry as a Living Tradition. Seyed-Ghorab has received several prestigious awards for his research and services to the field. He has served on several international committees for Iranian Studies and has been a member of editorial boards of journals. He has authored, edited, and translated books on Persian art and literature, Sufism, and Persian manuscript tradition. He has translated several volumes of modern Persian poetry into Dutch, including the poetry of Sohrâb Sepehri, Forugh Farrokhzâd, Mohammad-Rezâ Shafii-Kadkani, and (together with J.T.P. de Bruijn) Ahmad Shâmlu, Nâder Nâderpur, and Hushang Ebtehâj. His research concentrate on the triangle of literature, politics and religion, examining the application of classical Persian poetry in modern politics. He is the founding general editor of the Iranian Studies Series at Leiden University Press and the Modern Persian Poetry Series.
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