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Humanism has mostly considered the question "What does it mean to be human?" from a Western perspective. Dabashi asks it anew from a non-European perspective, in a groundbreaking study of 1,400 years of Persian literary humanism. He presents the unfolding of this vast tradition as the crea...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Dabashi, Hamid, 1951- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Masschusetts : Harvard University Press, 2012.
Temas:
Humanism in literature.
Persian literature > History and criticism.
Humanisme dans la littérature.
Littérature persane > Histoire et critique.
LITERARY CRITICISM > General.
HISTORY > Middle East > General.
Humanism in literature
Persian literature
Literary criticism
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Literary criticism.
Critiques littéraires.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: the making of a literary humanism
  • The making of an Iranian world in an Islamic universe: the rise of Persian language and literature (632-750)
  • The Persian presence in the Abbasid empire: resisting Arabic literary imperialism (750-1258)
  • The prose and poetry of the world: the rise of literary humanism in the Seljuqid empire (1038-1194)
  • The triumph of the word: the perils and promises of the Mongol empire (1256-1353)
  • The lure and lyrics of a literature: the center and periphery of the Timurid empire (1314-1508)
  • The making of a literary cosmopolitanism: treading over multiple empires (1501-1732)
  • The dawn of new empires: literary humanism in search of itself (1736-1924)
  • The final frontiers: new Persian literary humanism (1906-present)
  • Conclusion.

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