The Persian Whitman: Beyond a Literary Reception

Behnam Fomeshi

doi:10.24415/9789400603561

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Edition: 1/2019
Copyright Year: 2019
ISBN-Print: 978-90-8728-335-3
ISBN-Online: 978-94-006-0356-1
Publisher: Leiden University Press, Leiden
Series: Iranian Studies Series
Language: English
Pages: 256
Product Type: Monograph

1. ‎Contents No access
2. ‎Acknowledgments No access
1. ‎Organisation of the Book No access
1. ‎Childhood and Adolescence, 1819–1836 No access
2. ‎Early Adulthood, 1836–1848 No access
3. ‎Wandering and Experimenting, 1848–1855 No access
4. ‎Leaves of Grass 1855–1861 No access
5. ‎The Civil War, 1861–1865 No access
6. ‎Post-War Washington, 1865–1873 No access
7. ‎Camden, 1873–1884 No access
8. ‎Mickle Street, 1884–1892 No access
1. ‎Whitman’s Poetic Innovations No access
2. ‎Whitman’s Poetic Innovations and Democracy No access
1. ‎Democracy and Nationalism in Nineteenth-Century America No access
2. ‎Literary Democracy in Nineteenth-Century American Nationalism No access
3. ‎Leaves of Grass: Democratic National Poetry No access
1. ‎The Persian Constitutional Movement and American Literature No access
2. ‎The New Intelligentsia and Poetry No access
3. ‎The First Translator of Whitman No access
4. ‎The First Translation of Whitman in Persia No access
5. ‎1943 Reception of Whitman’s Translation No access
6. ‎The First Persian Whitman: An “Urban” Progressive Poet No access
1. ‎Literary Modernism and the Initial Reception of Whitman No access
2. ‎Nīmā Yūshīj, New Poetry and Whitman No access
3. ‎A Nīmāic Whitman: An Urban Innovative Poet No access
1. ‎Parvīn’s “God’s Weaver” and Whitman’s “A Noiseless Patient Spider” No access
2. ‎The Emergence of a Mixed-Breed Spider: When Two Literary Minds Meet No access
1. ‎Poetic Modernism and Iranian Left No access
2. ‎Persian Poetic Modernism’s Oppositional Position No access
1. ‎“The Laughing Philosopher” in a Persian Costume No access
2. ‎Persian Poetry, Iranian Politics and Whitman’s Image No access
1. ‎A Persian Mystic Poet on the Front Cover No access
2. ‎The Game Is Not Over Yet: The Rival Discourses Emerge No access
3. ‎The Interaction of Competing Discourses No access
‎Conclusion No access Pages 163 - 172
‎Chronology No access Pages 173 - 178
1. ‎Introduction No access
2. ‎Chapter 1: Walt Whitman’s Life and Works No access
3. ‎Chapter 2: From Democratic Politics to Democratic Poetics No access
4. ‎Chapter 3: Democracy and Nationalism Intertwined No access
5. ‎Chapter 4: A Persian Translation of Whitman No access
6. ‎Chapter 5: Critical Reception of Whitman No access
7. ‎Chapter 6: Creative Reception of Whitman No access
8. ‎Chapter 7: Political Reception of Whitman No access
9. ‎Chapter 8: A Persian Translation of Whitman’s Image No access
10. ‎Chapter 9: A Post-2009 Reception of Whitman No access
11. ‎Conclusion No access
‎Bibliography No access Pages 219 - 236
‎Index No access Pages 237 - 243