Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- A Note on Translations and Transliterations
- Preface and Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 Transcending the Written Text : From Dava’i’s Sensescapes to Sensorial Promiscuities in a Hafezian Banquet
- 2 Beyond Senses: Rumi’s Mystical Philosophy of Sense Perceptions
- 3 Ta‘ziyeh and Social Jouissance : ‘Beyond the Pleasure’ of Pain in Islamic Passion Play and Muharram Ceremonies
- 4 Seeing Red, Hearing the Revolution: The Multi-Sensory Appeal of Shuresh
- 5 Radical Openness in Forugh Farrokhzad’s The House is Black
- 6 Feminine Sense Versus Common Sense in Two Persian Folktales from Iran : ‘A Girl’s Loyalty’ and ‘Seven Poplar Trees’
- 7 Sonic Triggers and Fiery Pools : The Senses at War in Hossein Mortezaeian Abkenar’s Scorpion
- 8 The Sensorium of Exile: The Case of Elyas Alavi and Gloria Anzaldúa
- 9 Making Sense of the Senses : A Sensory Reading of Moniro Ravanipour’s These Crazy Nights
- Bibliography
- Contributors
- Index
Bibliography
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 January 2025
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- A Note on Translations and Transliterations
- Preface and Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 Transcending the Written Text : From Dava’i’s Sensescapes to Sensorial Promiscuities in a Hafezian Banquet
- 2 Beyond Senses: Rumi’s Mystical Philosophy of Sense Perceptions
- 3 Ta‘ziyeh and Social Jouissance : ‘Beyond the Pleasure’ of Pain in Islamic Passion Play and Muharram Ceremonies
- 4 Seeing Red, Hearing the Revolution: The Multi-Sensory Appeal of Shuresh
- 5 Radical Openness in Forugh Farrokhzad’s The House is Black
- 6 Feminine Sense Versus Common Sense in Two Persian Folktales from Iran : ‘A Girl’s Loyalty’ and ‘Seven Poplar Trees’
- 7 Sonic Triggers and Fiery Pools : The Senses at War in Hossein Mortezaeian Abkenar’s Scorpion
- 8 The Sensorium of Exile: The Case of Elyas Alavi and Gloria Anzaldúa
- 9 Making Sense of the Senses : A Sensory Reading of Moniro Ravanipour’s These Crazy Nights
- Bibliography
- Contributors
- Index
- Type
- Chapter
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- Losing Our Minds, Coming to Our SensesSensory Readings of Persian Literature and Culture, pp. 243 - 258Publisher: Amsterdam University PressPrint publication year: 2021