عنوان

Bâzgasht-i Adabî (Literary Return) and Persianate Literary Culture in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Iran, India, and Afghanistan

Number

TL48000

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انگلیسی

Title Proper

Bâzgasht-i Adabî (Literary Return) and Persianate Literary Culture in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Iran, India, and Afghanistan

General Material Designation

[Thesis]

First Statement of Responsibility

Kevin Lewis Schwartz

Subsequent Statement of Responsibility

Ahmadi, Shahwali

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

University of California, Berkeley

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2014

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

190

Text of Note

Committee members: Algar, Hamid; Faruqui, Munis

Text of Note

Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-321-26099-1

Dissertation or thesis details and type of degree

Ph.D.

Discipline of degree

Near Eastern Studies

Body granting the degree

University of California, Berkeley

Text preceding or following the note

2014

Text of Note

The idea that some poets in eighteenth and nineteenth century Iran revived Persian poetry by returning to the styles of the classical masters, while poets outside of Iran did not, has left a deep impression on how Persian literary history has come to be written. This idea, known as bâzgasht-i adabî (literary return), has left much historiographical debris in its wake: the conflation of the writing of Persian literary history with that of Iran's own; the assertion of a greater proprietary right by Iran over the great 'masters'; and the erasure from history of many facets of Persian literary culture occurring outside of Iran's borders. As influential as this concept has been, its impact has not been challenged sufficiently. This is equally true for how the idea of bâzgasht-i adabî developed and shaped the writing of both Iranian and Persian literary history, as it is for understanding the activities of Iranian poets who sought a 'return' to the masters. This dissertation addresses this gap by revisiting the concept of bâzgasht-i adabî and the larger realm of Persianate literary culture in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Middle Eastern literature; Middle Eastern history; Writing; Persian language; Poetry; 19th century; Imitation; Historical text analysis; Culture; Near Eastern studies; Literature

Subject Term

Language, literature and linguistics;Social sciences;Afghanistan;Eighteenth century;Historiography;Iran;Nineteenth century;Persian culture;Persian history;Persian literature;South asia

Golestaneh, Seema

Ahmadi, Shahwali

Subdivision

Near Eastern Studies

University of California, Berkeley

Call Number

1627787840; 3640633

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[Thesis]

276903

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