This book investigates the ethical and aesthetic implications of modern Persian narratives. While the dominant traditions of Persian narrative studies reduce all that is in the text to the telos of meaning built on historical facts, this book analyzes narrative experimentation that engages in a critical negotiation with the excesses of the presentation of life. To locate the ethical at the intersection of the narrative and aesthetic, this book articulates an ethical account of a diverse range of narratives in modern Persian Literature in order to demonstrate alternative encounters with manifestations of life, such as pain, death, and trauma. Relevant to literary students and scholars in Near Eastern Studies, and in Persian literature and comparative literature in particular, the book highlights how narrative is a product of societal kinetics.

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Alireza Korangy, Ph.D. is a researcher in Iranian and Semitic philology and Linguistics. He also works on folklore. He is Faculty at the American University of Beirut and has previously taught at the University of Virginia, University of Colorado at Boulder, and Harvard University.

Sara Khorshidi completed her Ph.D. in comparative literature at the Justus Liebig University Gießen. She has edited and published book chapters and a monograph in German and English: Der Raumund Körper des Politischen (Hamburg, 2022), The Ethics of Speaking about Pain; a Dialogue between Henry James and Azar Nafisi (Penn State University Press, 2023), Marjane Satrapi's graphic novel Persepolis; The Story of a Childhood and The Story of a Return between international success and censorship (Heidelberg University, 2018), and Voices from Necropolis: A Critical Study of Autobiography and Subalternity (Münster, 2019).

Inhalt

Mixture of Temporal Line of Narration in the Play "Return to the First Trial".- Yarsan Econarratology: Bridging Religion, Nature, and Environmental Awareness.- The prosaic in the poetic: tracing everyday narrative genres in Modern Persian poetry.- Modern Narrative in Beyzaie's Traditional Plays: Narratology of Majles-e Ghorbani-e Senemmar and Majles-e Zarbat Zadan.- A Testimony on Shared-Finitude; Some Reflections on the More-than-human World in The Drowned.- The Place Where WaterRules: Perspectives from the Sea and Fishing Narratives in The Drowned & The Old Man and the Sea.- Poetics of Bereavement in Gav.- In Search of a Genre for My Narrative.