TY - BOOK AU - Alizadeh,Yass AU - Beard,Michael AU - Bolourchi,Neda AU - Dayani,Sheida AU - Ghanoonparvar,M.R. AU - Khorrami,M.Mehdi AU - Khorrami,Mehdi AU - Moosavi,Amir AU - Piryaei,Shabnam AU - Seyed-Gohrab,Ali-Asghar AU - Shams,Fatemeh TI - Losing Our Minds, Coming to Our Senses: Sensory Readings of Persian Literature and Culture T2 - Iranian Studies Series SN - 9789400604148 AV - PK6097 .L67 2021 U1 - 891/.5509 23 PY - 2021///] CY - Leiden PB - Leiden University Press KW - Persian literature KW - History and criticism KW - Language and Literature KW - Leiden University Press KW - Literary Theory, Criticism, and History KW - Middle East KW - LITERARY CRITICISM / General KW - bisacsh KW - Persian literature, Iranian Studies, Sensory Studies, Cultural Studies, The Senses in Literature, Interdisciplinary approaches to literature N1 - Frontmatter --; Table of Contents --; A Note on Translations and Transliterations --; Preface and Acknowledgements --; Introduction: Minds/Senses --; Transcending the Written Text : From Dava’i’s Sensescapes to Sensorial Promiscuities in a Hafezian Banquet --; Beyond Senses: Rumi’s Mystical Philosophy of Sense Perceptions --; Ta‘ziyeh and Social Jouissance : ‘Beyond the Pleasure’ of Pain in Islamic Passion Play and Muharram Ceremonies --; Seeing Red, Hearing the Revolution: The Multi-Sensory Appeal of Shuresh --; Radical Openness in Forugh Farrokhzad’s The House is Black --; Feminine Sense Versus Common Sense in Two Persian Folktales from Iran : ‘A Girl’s Loyalty’ and ‘Seven Poplar Trees’ --; Sonic Triggers and Fiery Pools : The Senses at War in Hossein Mortezaeian Abkenar’s Scorpion --; The Sensorium of Exile: The Case of Elyas Alavi and Gloria Anzaldúa --; Making Sense of the Senses : A Sensory Reading of Moniro Ravanipour’s These Crazy Nights --; Bibliography --; Contributors --; Index; restricted access N2 - Diverse approaches to sensoria in Persian literature. We experience art with our whole bodies, yet traditional approaches to Persian literature overemphasize the mind—the political, allegorical, or didactic—and ignore the feelings that uniquely characterize aesthetics. Losing Our Minds, Coming to Our Senses rediscovers the sensuality of Persian art across period, genre, and artist. Through readings of such well-known writers as Rumi and lesser-known artists as Hossein Abkenar, the authors demonstrate the significance of sensoria to the rich history of Persian letters UR - https://doi.org/10.24415/9789400604148 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9789400604148 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9789400604148/original ER -