Research Catalog

Title

Erin and Iran : cultural encounters between the Irish and the Iranians / edited by H.E. Chehabi and Grace Neville.

Publication

Boston, Massachusetts : Ilex Foundation, [2015]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Chehabi, H. E.
• Neville, Grace

Description

xv, 208 pages; 23 cm

Series Statement

Ilex Foundation series ; 16

Uniform Title

Ilex Foundation series ; 16.

Subject

• Comparative literature > English and Persian
• Comparative literature > Irish and Persian
• Comparative literature > Persian and Irish
• Comparative literature > Persian and English
• English literature > Irish authors > History and criticism
• Irish literature > History and criticism
• Persian literature > History and criticism
• Ireland > Relations > Iran
• Iran > Relations > Ireland

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Introduction -- Joseph Falaky Nagy: The "conqueror worm" in Irish and Persian literature -- John McDonald: Building bulls and crafting cows: narratives of bovine fabrication from Iran, Ireland, and in-between -- Olga Davidson: Parallel heroic themes in the medieval Irish Cattle Raid of Cooley and the medieval Persian Book of Kings -- Dick Davis: A trout in the milk: Vis and Ramin and Tristan and Isolde -- Oliver Scharbrodt: "From Hafiz": Irish Orientalism, Persian poetry, and W.B. Yeats -- Todd Lawson: Joycean modernism in a nineteenth-century Qur'an commentary: a comparison of the Bab's Qayyum al-Asma with Joyce's Ulysses -- M.R. Ghanoonparvar: Sharing poetic sensitivity and misery: encounters of Iranians with the Irish in travel writings and fiction -- Translated by H.E. Chehabi -- An Indo-Persian in Ireland, anno 1799: Mirza Abu Taleb Khan -- David James: An Irish visitor to the court of the Shah of Persia in 1835: extract from the Unpublished Diary of Sir Francis Hopkins of Athboy -- Brendan Mcamara: An Irishwoman in Tehran, 1849-1853: identity, religion, and empire.

Call Number

JFE 15-7703

ISBN

• 9780674088283
• 067408828X

LCCN

2015017908

OCLC

906121530

Title

Erin and Iran : cultural encounters between the Irish and the Iranians / edited by H.E. Chehabi and Grace Neville.

Publisher

Boston, Massachusetts : Ilex Foundation, [2015]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Ilex Foundation series ; 16

Ilex Foundation series ; 16.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Added Author

Chehabi, H. E., editor.

Neville, Grace, editor.

Research Call Number

JFE 15-7703