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084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aDabashi, Hamid
_eautore
245 1 4 _aThe Shahnameh :
_bThe Persian Epic as World Literature /
_cHamid Dabashi.
264 1 _aNew York, NY :
_bColumbia University Press,
_c[2019]
264 4 _c©2019
300 _a1 online resource
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505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tCONTENTS --
_tPREFACE --
_tACKNOWLEDGMENTS --
_tINTRODUCTION --
_t1. THE PERSIAN EPIC --
_t2. FERDOWSI THE POET --
_t3. THE BOOK OF KINGS --
_t4. EPICS AND EMPIRES --
_t5. EMPIRES FALL, NATIONS RISE --
_tCONCLUSION --
_tNOTES --
_tINDEX
506 0 _arestricted access
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520 _aThe Shahnameh, an epic poem recounting the foundation of Iran across mythical, heroic, and historical ages, is the beating heart of Persian literature and culture. Composed by Abu al-Qasem Ferdowsi over a thirty-year period and completed in the year 1010, the epic has entertained generations of readers and profoundly shaped Persian culture, society, and politics. For a millennium, Iranian and Persian-speaking people around the globe have read, memorized, discussed, performed, adapted, and loved the poem.In this book, Hamid Dabashi brings the Shahnameh to renewed global attention, encapsulating a lifetime of learning and teaching the Persian epic for a new generation of readers. Dabashi insightfully traces the epic’s history, authorship, poetic significance, complicated legacy of political uses and abuses, and enduring significance in colonial and postcolonial contexts. In addition to explaining and celebrating what makes the Shahnameh such a distinctive literary work, he also considers the poem in the context of other epics, such as the Aeneid and the Odyssey, and critical debates about the concept of world literature. Arguing that Ferdowsi’s epic and its reception broached this idea long before nineteenth-century Western literary criticism, Dabashi makes a powerful case that we need to rethink the very notion of “world literature” in light of his reading of the Persian epic.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 25. Jun 2024)
650 7 _aLITERARY CRITICISM / Middle Eastern.
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856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.7312/daba18344
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