Literature of the Early Twentieth Century: From the Constitutional Period to Reza Shah

Ali-Asghar Seyed-Gohrab is Associate Professor at Leiden University. His publications include Layli and Majnun: Love, Madness and Mystic Longing in Nizami's Epic Romance (2003), Mirror of Dew: The Poetry of Alam-Taj Zhale Qa'em-Maqami (2014), Courtly Riddles: Enigmatic Embellishments in Early Persian Poetry (2008), One Word--Yak kaleme: A 19th-Century Persian Treatise Introducing Western Codified Law (2008) and Conflict and Development in Iranian Film (2013). He has translated several volumes of modern Persian poetry, including the poetry of Sohrab Sepehri, Forugh Farrokhzad, Mohammad-Reza Shafi'i Kadkani, and (together with J.T.P. de Bruijn) Ahmad Shamlu, Nader Naderpur, and Hushang Ebtehaj. He is the founding general editor of the Iranian Studies Series at Leiden University Press and the Modern Persian Poetry Series. Ehsan Yarshater is the Director of the Center for Iranian Studies and Professor Emeritus of Iranian Studies, Columbia University and the Founding Editor of the Encyclopaedia Iranica

Foreword

Chapter 1: The Political and Social Background of the Literature of the Period (1900-1940). Ali-Asghar Seyed-Gohrab

Chapter 2: Poetry As Awakening: Singing Modernity. Ali-Asghar Seyed-Gohrab

Chapter 3: Modern Persian Prose Fiction between 1900 and 1940. Ali-Asghar Seyed-Gohrab

Chapter 4: Satire in Persian Literature, 1900-1940. Homa Katouzian

Chapter 5: Women Poets. Dominic Parviz Brookshaw

Chapter 6: Translations of European Poetry and their Reception. Parvin Loloi

Chapter 7: A History of Iranian Drama (1850-1941). Saeed Talajooy

Chapter 8: Early Twentieth Century Journals in Iran: Response to Modernity in Literary Reviews. Kamran Talattof

Chapter 9: The History of Children’s Literature (1900-1940). Zohreh Ghaeni