Losing Our Minds, Coming to Our Senses: Sensory Readings of Persian Literature and Culture

doi:10.1017/9789400604148

Losing Our Minds, Coming to Our Senses

Sensory Readings of Persian Literature and Culture

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Edited by Mehdi Khorrami, New York University, Amir Moosavi, Rutgers University, New Jersey

Publisher:: Amsterdam University Press
Online publication date:: January 2025
Print publication year:: 2021
Online ISBN:: 9789400604148
DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1017/9789400604148

Subjects:: Literature, European and World Literature: General Interest
Series:: Iranian Studies Series

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We experience art with our whole bodies, yet traditional approaches to Persian literature overemphasize the mind, the political, allegorical, or didactic and ignore the feelings that uniquely characterize aesthetics. Losing Our Minds, Coming to Our Senses rediscovers the sensuality of Persian art across period, genre, and artist. Through readings of such well-known writers as Rumi and lesser-known artists as Hossein Abkenar, the authors demonstrate the significance of sensoria to the rich history of Persian letters.

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Losing Our Minds, Coming to Our Senses

Sensory Readings of Persian Literature and Culture

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Frontmatter
pp 1-4

Contents
pp 5-6

A Note on Translations and Transliterations
pp 7-8

Preface and Acknowledgements
pp 9-12

Introduction
pp 13-24

1 - Transcending the Written Text : From Dava’i’s Sensescapes to Sensorial Promiscuities in a Hafezian Banquet
pp 25-48

2 - Beyond Senses: Rumi’s Mystical Philosophy of Sense Perceptions
pp 49-70

3 - Ta‘ziyeh and Social Jouissance : ‘Beyond the Pleasure’ of Pain in Islamic Passion Play and Muharram Ceremonies
pp 71-98

4 - Seeing Red, Hearing the Revolution: The Multi-Sensory Appeal of Shuresh
pp 99-128

5 - Radical Openness in Forugh Farrokhzad’s The House is Black
pp 129-148

6 - Feminine Sense Versus Common Sense in Two Persian Folktales from Iran : ‘A Girl’s Loyalty’ and ‘Seven Poplar Trees’
pp 149-170

7 - Sonic Triggers and Fiery Pools : The Senses at War in Hossein Mortezaeian Abkenar’s Scorpion
pp 171-194

8 - The Sensorium of Exile: The Case of Elyas Alavi and Gloria Anzaldúa
pp 195-214

9 - Making Sense of the Senses : A Sensory Reading of Moniro Ravanipour’s These Crazy Nights
pp 215-242

Bibliography
pp 243-258

Contributors
pp 259-264

Index
pp 265-275

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