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Persian Prose: A History of Persian Literature, Vol V

by Bo Utas
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Book cover type: Hardcover
  • ISBN13: 9781845119065
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: I. B. Tauris & Company
  • Publisher Imprint: I. B. Tauris & Company
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  • Pages: 600
  • Original Price: GBP 95.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 858 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): General and Historiography

Volume V of A History of Persian Literature presents a broad survey of Persian prose: from biographical, historiographical, and didactic prose, to scientific manuals and works of popular prose fiction. It analyzes the rhetorical devices employed by writers in different periods in their philosophical and political discourse; or when their aim is primarily to entertain rather than to instruct, the chapters describe different techniques used to transform old stories and familiar tales into novel versions to entice their audience.

Many of the texts in prose cited in the volume share a wealth of common lore and literary allusions with Persian poetry. Prose and poetry frequently appear on the same page in tandem. In different ways, therefore, this creative interplay demonstrates the perennial significance of intertextuality, from the earliest times to the present; and help us in the process to further our understanding and enhance our enjoyment of Persian literature in its different manifestations throughout history

Bo Utas is Professor Emeritus in Iranian languages at Uppsala University, Sweden. He has published on a wide array of subjects within Iranian linguistics, literature and religion including Arabic and Iranian elements in New Persian prosody, Arabic prosody and its applications in Muslim poetry, (1994) and The aesthetic use of New Persian (1998).

Ehsan Yarshater was the Director of the Center for Iranian Studies and Professor Emeritus of Iranian Studies, Columbia University and the Founding Editor of the Encyclopaedia Iranica.

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