{"product_id":"the-politics-of-writing-in-kamran-talattof-9780815628187","title":"The Politics of Writing in Iran: A History of Modern Persian Literature","description":"\u003cp\u003eEmerging in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries as a secular activity, Persian literature acquired its own modernity by redefining past aesthetic practices of identity and history. By analyzing selected work of major pre- and post-revolutionary literary figures, Talattof shows how Persian literary history has not been an integrated continuum but a series of distinct episodic movements shaped by shifting ideologies. Drawing on western concepts, modern Persian literature has responded to changing social and political conditions through complex strategies of metaphorical and allegorical representations that both construct and denounce cultural continuities. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe book provides a unique contribution in that it draws on texts that demonstrate close affinity to such diverse ideologies as modernism, Marxism, feminism, and Islam. Each ideological standard has influenced the form, characterization, and figurative language of literary texts as well as setting the criteria for literary criticism and determining which issues are to be the focus of literary journals.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Kamran Talattof\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0815628188\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780815628187\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Syracuse University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/01\/2000\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 254\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.10lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.30h x 6.20w x 0.89d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eReference and Research Bk News\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/01\/2000 pg. 177","brand":"Kamran Talattof","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44254741496063,"sku":"9780815628187","price":49.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_d46eb583-3a2a-412e-9449-537f89156887.jpg?v=1694614111","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-politics-of-writing-in-kamran-talattof-9780815628187","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}