The Layered heart : essays on Persian poetry : a celebration in honor of Dick Davis / edited by A.A. Seyed-Ghorab.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Davis, Dick, 1945- honouree.

Seyed-Gohrab, A. A. (Ali Asghar), 1968- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Persian poetry--History and criticism.

Persian poetry.

Davis, Dick, 1945- honouree.

Davis, Dick.

Davis, Dick, 1945-.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Festschriften.

Physical Description:

x, 662 pages ; 25 cm

Edition:

First hardcover edition.

Place of Publication:

Washintgon, D.C. : Mage Publishers, [2019]

Contents:

Voyages in literature / Ehsan Yarshater

Continuity and creativity : models of change in Persian poetry, classical and modern / Ahmad Karimi-Hakkak

Between the water and the wall : the power of love in medieval Persian romance / Safeed Honarmand

Wretched King Mobad loses the war of love / Christine van Ruymbeke

Of love and loyalty : the Middle English Floris and Blancheflour and the Persian Warqa and Golshāh / Aghar Seyed-Ghorab

What kind of wine did Rudaki desire? Samanids' search for cultural and national identity / Kamran Talattof

Song of the cupbearer by Mohammad Sūfī Māzandarānī / Paul Losensky - Zahhak's story and history / Saghi Gazerani

Wrestling in the Shahnameh and later Persian epics / H.E. Chehabi

Heroes, husbands , and rhino hunters : Sekandar and Bahram Gur in the Shahnameh / Sunil Sharma

Shahnameh-ye Naderi and the revival of epic poetry in post-Safavid Iran / Abbas Armanat

From Scythia to Sistan : reconciling the Shahnameh and Herodotus to discover the origins of the Rostam legend / Reza Shaghaghi Zarghamee

On the sources of the Shahnameh / Olga M. Davidson

Shifting allegiances : primordial relationships and how they change in the Shahnameh / Franklin Lewis

The Shahnameh in India : Tārīkh-i Dilgushā-yi Shamshīr Khānī / Charles Melville

Kok Kohzad in Afghanistan : local knowledge and Shahnameh characters / Margaret A. Mills

Side-saddle Tazmin, or, the post-Shahnameh for Victorian children / Firuza Melville

Poet and ruler : the case of Dāstān-e gol, Lahuti's poem for Stalin / Natalia Chalisova and Leyla Lahuti

The political and literary life of Qaysar Aminpur / Fatemeh Shams

Literature beyond borders : modern Persian novels in English translation, the case of Pezeshkād's My Uncle Napoleon / Saeedeh Shahnahpur

Astrolabe hunting in the Punjab / John Walbridge.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 625-662).

ISBN:

1933823976

9781933823973

OCLC:

1060580842