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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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Beard, Michael (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2014]
Edición:Course Book
Colección:Princeton Legacy Library ; 1113
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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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