David Damrosch

Djelal Kadir

Theo D'haen

Harish Trivedi

Bo Utas

Gunilla Lindberg-Wada

Anders Pettersson

Zhang Longxi

As'ad Khairallah

Eileen Julien

LITERATURE A WORLD HISTORY An exploration of the history of the world’s literatures and the many varieties of literary expression Literature: A World Historyencompasses all the world’s major literary traditions, emphasizing the interrelationship of local and national cultures over time. Spanning global literature from the beginnings of recorded history to the present day, this expansive four-volume set examines the many varieties of the world’s literatures in their social and intellectual contexts. Its four volumes are devoted to literature before 200 CE, from 200 to 1500, from 1500 to 1800, and from 1800 to 2000, with four dozen contributors providing new insights into the art of literature, and addressing the situation of literature in the world today. Organized throughout in six broad regions—Africa, the Americas, East Asia, Europe, South Asia, Southeast Asia, and Oceania, and West and Central Asia—Literature: A World History offers readers a clear and consistent treatment of diverse forms of literary expression across time and place. Throughout the text, particular emphasis is placed on literary institutions within different regional and linguistic cultures and on the relations between literature and a spectrum of social, political, and religious contexts. Features work by an international panel of leading scholars from around the globe, in Africa, the Middle East, South and East Asia, Australia and New Zealand, Europe, and the United States Provides a balanced overview of national and global literature from all major regions of the world from antiquity to the present Highlights the specificity of regional and local cultures throughout much of literary history, together with cross-cutting essays on topics such as different writing systems, court cultures, and utopias Literature: A World History is an invaluable reference work for undergraduate and graduate students as well as scholars looking for a wide-ranging overview of global literary history.

A World History, Volumes 1-4

Literature

Thomas Hägg

This publication and discussion of the fragments of the Greek novel of "M?tiokhos and Parthenop?" and the Persian epic poem based on it, ?Un?ur?'s V?miq and ?Adhr?, adds a new work to the corpus of ancient novels and sheds new light on Persian epic poetry.

Fragments of an Ancient Greek Novel and a Persian Epic Poem

The Virgin and Her Lover

This book is a selected collection of the scholarly production on Middle and New Persian literature by professor emeritus Bo Utas, Uppsala University, presented to him on his 70th birthday, with an introduction and an index by Carina Jahani. Out of 19 articles, 15 are in English and four (four entries in Dictionnaire universel des litteratures) in French. Of special interest is a long article entitled Genres in Persian literature 900 to 1900 which includes a discussion of what literature is, how oral and written literature are defined and how different genres in Persian literature have developed. The article on New Persian prosody discusses how Arabic and Middle Iranian elements have merged in New Persian poetry. Several articles are dedicated to the influence from Sufism on the Classical Persian poetry, particularly the works of Abdullah Ansari and the Savanih of Ahmad Ghazali. The manuscript tradition and the contents of the journey to the other world described in Misbah ul-arvah are he subjects of two separate studies. The traditional attribution of this work to Auhad al-Din Kirmani is also questioned. There are, furthermore, papers discussing Greco-Persian literary contacts reflected in the Persian romantic epos Vamiq u 'Azra, the concepts of war and peace in Iran, non-religious Book Pahlavi literature, the aesthetic use of New Persian, and Modern Persian literature, particularly prose literature during the first half of the 20th century. The articles on application of a stemmatic method in Persian manuscript edition and the possibility of using a computerized method for the construction of stemmas are also of particular theoretical interest. The four entries in Dictionnaire universel des litteratures are on Farid al-Din Attar, Jalal al-Din Rumi, Sana'i-yi Ghaznavi and Sufism.

Collected Essays on Middle and New Persian Texts

Manuscript, Text and Literature

Den persiska litteraturen: Essäer är den första breda introduktionen till den persiska litteraturen på svenska. Bokens kapitel spänner över två tusen år och behandlar poesi och prosa, språk, religion och politik. Bo Utas forskargärning har uppmärksammats såväl i Sverige som internationellt. I denna volym samlas för första gången hans arbeten på svenska om den persiska litteraturen och kulturen.

Essäer av Bo Utas

Den persiska litteraturen

Lars Johanson

The series is a platform for contributions of all kinds to this rapidly developing field. General problems are studied from the perspective of individual languages, language families, language groups, or language samples. Conclusions are the result of a deepened study of empirical data. Special emphasis is given to little-known languages, whose analysis may shed new light on long-standing problems in general linguistics.

Turkic, Iranian and Neighbouring Languages

Evidentials

Den persiska litteraturen: Översättningar ger för första gången en översikt över det persiska språkets mästerverk på svenska. Översättningarna spänner över mer än tusen år, från klassiker som Ferdousi och Rumi till samtida författare som Forugh Farrokhzād och Mahmud Doulatābādi. Bo Utas är Sveriges främsta kännare och översättare av persisk litteratur.

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