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Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
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Ottoman Culture and the Project of Modernity

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Love at a Crux presents the emergence of versified love stories in the New Persian language as a crucial event in the history of romance. Using the tale of Vis & Rāmin (w. 1054) as its focal point, the book explores how Persian court poets in the eleventh century reconfigured "myths" and "fables" from the distant past in ways that transformed the love story from a form of evening entertainment to ... Read more

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Internal Orients

Literary Representations of Colonial Modernity and the Kurdish ‘Other’ in Turkey, Iran, and Iraq

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The author demonstrates sophisticated knowledge and understanding of Kurdish history and of postcolonial, poststructuralist, and related literary theories. This book gives rich contextual detail about Turkish, Iranian, and Iraqi nation states, in which Kurds live and where, the author argues, they are systematically oppressed. The central argument in the book is that the Kurds represent an Orient ... Read more

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The author demonstrates sophisticated knowledge and understanding of Kurdish history and of postcolonial, poststructuralist, and related literary theories. This book gives rich contextual detail about Turkish, Iranian, and Iraqi nation states, in which Kurds live and where, the author argues, they are systematically oppressed. The central argument in the book is that the Kurds represent an Orient
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La voz de la conseja, t.2 (Spanish Edition)

by Vicente Blasco Ibáñez, Concha Espina, Serafín Álvarez Quintero, Joaquín Álvarez Quintero, Antonio de Hoyos y Vinent, Bernardo Morales San Martín, Diego San José, Wenceslao Fernández-Flórez, J. Ortega Munilla, José Echegaray, Alvaro Retana, Gutiérrez Gamero, and Felipe Trigo ...

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Saadi Shirazi's Scroll of Wisdom

by Arthur Naylor Wollaston ...

Abu-Muhammad Muslih Al-Din bin Abdallah Shirazi, better known by his pen-name Saadi, or Saadi of Shiraz (Saadi Shirazi), was the major Persian poet and prose writer during the Middle Age. He is widely recognized as one of the greatest poets of the classical literary tradition, earning him the nickname “Master” or “Master of Speech”. He has been quoted in the Western traditions as well, sand his ... Read more

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Abu-Muhammad Muslih Al-Din bin Abdallah Shirazi, better known by his pen-name Saadi, or Saadi of Shiraz (Saadi Shirazi), was the major Persian poet and prose writer during the Middle Age. He is widely recognized as one of the greatest poets of the classical literary tradition, earning him the nickname “Master” or “Master of Speech”. He has been quoted in the Western traditions as well, sand his
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Series Book 10 - Mitología
Marcado desde su nacimiento por una profecía letal, Perseo —hijo de Zeus y de la mortal Dánae— es apartado de Argos y enviado hacia lo que debería haber sido una muerte segura. Pero ningún destino oscuro es suficiente para doblegar al que llegará a ser uno de los héroes más admirados de Grecia.Decidido a sobrevivir y a forjar su propio camino, Perseo se enfrentará a criaturas terribles y monstruos ... Read more

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Marcado desde su nacimiento por una profecía letal, Perseo —hijo de Zeus y de la mortal Dánae— es apartado de Argos y enviado hacia lo que debería haber sido una muerte segura. Pero ningún destino oscuro es suficiente para doblegar al que llegará a ser uno de los héroes más admirados de Grecia.Decidido a sobrevivir y a forjar su propio camino, Perseo se enfrentará a criaturas terribles y monstruos
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Strange Affinity

by Naghmeh Esmaeilpour ...

Series series Iranian Studies
Introducing "narrative mobility" as a new approach in comparative studies of Iran and the US, this book reinterprets the politics and aesthetics of relations between the nations through an analysis of Iranian and American authors.The book focuses specifically on three authors—Simin Daneshvar, Shahriar Mandanipour, and Don DeLillo—who each employ narrative mobility to rethink intercultural ... Read more

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Introducing "narrative mobility" as a new approach in comparative studies of Iran and the US, this book reinterprets the politics and aesthetics of relations between the nations through an analysis of Iranian and American authors.The book focuses specifically on three authors—Simin Daneshvar, Shahriar Mandanipour, and Don DeLillo—who each employ narrative mobility to rethink intercultural
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DisOrientations

German-Turkish Cultural Contact in Translation, 1811–1946

by Kristin Dickinson ...

Series series Max Kade Research Institute
The fields of comparative and world literature tend to have a unidirectional, Eurocentric focus, with attention to concepts of “origin” and “arrival.” DisOrientations challenges this viewpoint. Kristin Dickinson employs a unique multilingual archive of German and Turkish translated texts from the early nineteenth through the mid-twentieth century. In this analysis, she reveals the omnidirectional ... Read more

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The fields of comparative and world literature tend to have a unidirectional, Eurocentric focus, with attention to concepts of “origin” and “arrival.” DisOrientations challenges this viewpoint. Kristin Dickinson employs a unique multilingual archive of German and Turkish translated texts from the early nineteenth through the mid-twentieth century. In this analysis, she reveals the omnidirectional
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