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Description for Persian Prose
Hardback. Editor(s): Utas, Bo. Series: History of Persian Literature. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 2BXF; DSC; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 156. .
Persian literature is the jewel in the crown of Persian culture. It has profoundly influenced the literatures of Ottoman Turkey, Muslim India and Turkic Central Asia and has been a source of inspiration for Goethe, Emerson, Matthew Arnold and Jorge Luis Borges among others. Yet Persian literature has never received the attention it truly deserves. 'A History of Persian Literature' answers this need and offers a new, comprehensive and detailed history of its subject.
Persian literature is the jewel in the crown of Persian culture. It has profoundly influenced the literatures of Ottoman Turkey, Muslim India and Turkic Central Asia and has been a source of inspiration for Goethe, Emerson, Matthew Arnold and Jorge Luis Borges among others. Yet Persian literature has never received the attention it truly deserves. 'A History of Persian Literature' answers this need and offers a new, comprehensive and detailed history of its subject.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2018
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Series
History of Persian Literature
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781845119065
SKU
V9781845119065
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About Unknown
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 ... Read more
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