Poetry and Revolution

Homa Katouzian is Roshan Institute Visiting Academic in Iranian Studies, St Antony’s College, University of Oxford. He is Editor of The International Journal of Persian Literature and co-editor of the Routledge Iranian Studies book series. His numerous publications include Sa’di, the Poet of Life, Love and Compassion (2006), Sadeq Hedayat, the Life and Legend of an Iranian Writer (2006), Iran: Politics, History and Literature (2013) and The Persians: Ancient, Mediaeval and Modern Iran (2010). Alireza Korangy received his Ph.D. from the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University. His research is on Classical Persian and Arabic philology and literature; poetics, rhetoric, and Iranian and Semitic linguistics; and Kurdish folklore. He is (with Dr. Homa Katouzian) the editor of The International Journal of Persian Literature.

Introduction 1. Iraj, the Poet of Love and Humour 2. The Silencing of Qamar-ol-Moluk Vaziri: Extravagance and Myth-Making in Iranian Historiography 3. Mohammad ‘Ali Afrāshteh’s Gilaki Verse and the Legacy of the Constitutional Revolution (1905-1911) 4. Freedom’s Song: Women and the Canonization of Constitutional Era Poets 5. Social Education through Satirical Verse: Ashraf Gilani and Ali Akbar Dehkhodā 6. Margins, Resistance and Transformation in Classical Persian Poetry: Yaghmā Jandaqi as Precursive Kernel of the Constitutional Revolution Poetry 7. Politics, Prison and Poetry: Analysis of Farrokhi Yazdi’s Poetics 8. Singing Modernity with the Language of Tradition: Situating the Literary Theory and Practice of Mohammad-Taqi Bahār 9. Crying on the Stage: ‘Eshqi the Playwright