This article draws attention to the ways in which Anita Amirrezvani's The Blood of Flowers (2007), a historical novel set in 17th-century Iran, can be placed within the neo-orientalist discourse which informs many of the ...

By baroque, one implies the “general attitude" and “the formal quality" of a work of art which is trans-historical and “radiates through" histories, cultures, and works of art. In that way, just a seventeenth-century work ...

A Look at Contemporary Persian Poetry, Currents in Persian Poetry in 20th Century This book is a historical survey of literature though the writer has tried to distance himself from ancient approaches and to apply a modern ...

The early twentieth-century nationalist discourse in Iran reviled, on the one hand, a Qajar hegemony on account of an exhausted “manifest destiny," and lauded, on the other, a discourse of masculinity that assumed moral ...

This paper attempts to investigate the adolescent narrator's journey into adulthood in Ahmad Mahmoud's The Neighbor. Considering the central character's growth into adulthood, the paper argues that the compulsory military ...

This paper explores the possible origins of some names in 1001 Nights. The names of the major characters of the Night stories, and their borrowed reflexes in Arabic, have been traced back to their ancient Persian roots. ...

In this paper, the writers try to compare two authors, the Iranian leftist, Bozorg Alavi (1904-1997) and the Polish Joseph Conrad (1857-1924). Although these two writers have different attitudes to Socialism and the question ...