Hedayat's Blind Owl as a Western Novel /
The Iranian writer Sadeq Hedayat is the most influential figure in twentieth-century Persian fiction--and the object of a kind of cult after his suicide in 1951. His masterpiece The Blind Owl is the most important novel of modern Iran. Its abrupt, tortured opening sentence, "There are sores whi...
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton, NJ :
Princeton University Press,
[2014]
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Edición: | Course Book |
Colección: | Princeton Legacy Library ;
1113 |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- Preface
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- Abbreviations
- CHAPTER ONE. Nationalist Poetics and Its Shadows
- CHAPTER TWO. The Book of Love: Dante as Template
- CHAPTER THREE. Chapter One Says You Love Her
- CHAPTER FOUR. Gothic I: A Generic Background
- Chapter Five. GOTHIC II: POE AS GENERIC BACKGROUND
- Chapter Six. SALOME: THE PARABLE OF THE ARTIST
- Chapter Seven. PROLEGOMENON TO THE BLIND OWL AS AN EASTERN NOVEL
- NOTES
- INDEX