Routledge Handbook of Post Classical and Contemporary Persian Literature

<p><i>Routledge Handbook of Post Classical and Contemporary Persian Literature </i>contains scholarly essays and sample texts related to Persian literature from the 17th century to the present day. It includes analyses of free verse poetry short stories novels prison writings memoirs and plays.</p><p>The chapters apply a disciplinary or interdisciplinary approach to the many movements genres and works of the long and evolving body of Persian literature produced in the Persianate World. These collections of scholarly essays and samples of Persian literary texts provide facts (general information) instructions (ways to understand analyze and appreciate this body of works) and the field’s state-of-the-art research (the problematics of the topics) regarding one of the most important and oldest literary traditions in the world.</p><p>Thus the <i>Handbook’s </i>chapters and related texts provide scholars students and admirers of Persian poetry and prose with practical and direct access to the intricacies of the Persian literary world through a chronological account of key moments in the formation of this enduring literary tradition.</p><p>The related <i>Handbook </i>(also edited by Kamran Talattof ) <i>Routledge Handbook of Ancient Classical and Late Classical Persian Literature </i>covers Persian literary works from the ancient or pre-Islamic era to roughly the end of the 16th century.</p>