Persian literature /edited by Ehsan Yarshater.
- [Albany, New York] : Bibliotheca Persica, (c)1988.
- xi, 562 pages ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographies and index.
The development of Iranian literatures Literary aspects of the Avesta Manichan literature Court poetry at the beginning of the classical period Epic poetry Ferdowsi and the art of tragic epic Lyric poetry Omar Khayyam The romance Nezami : master dramatist Jalal al-Din Rumi : passions of the mystic mind The genius of Shiraz : Sadi and Hafez Persian satire and burlesque The Indian style : progress or decline? Persian prose fiction : an Iranian mirror and conscience Sadeq Hedayat : an appraisal Sadeq Hedayat's composite landscapes : Western exposure Contemporary poetry in Iran Forugh Farrokhzad Modern Persian drama Persian poetry in the Indo-Pakistani subcontinent Iqbal's Persian poetry The Persian literature of Afghanistan Modern Tajik literature Persian literature in translation Classical Persian literature Modernist Persian literature Ehsan Yarshater -- Dale Bishop -- Jes P. Asmussen -- Jerome W. Clinton -- William L. Hanaway -- Amin Banani -- Heshmat Moayyad -- L. P. Elwell-Sutton -- J. C. Burgel -- Peter Chelkowski -- Talat S. Halman -- Annemarie Schimmel -- Paul Sprachman -- Ehsan Yarshater -- Michael C. Hillmann -- Ehsan Yarshater -- Michael Beard -- Massud Farzan -- Farzaneh Milani -- Gisele Kapuscinski -- Annemarie Schimmel -- Annemarie Schimmel -- Ashraf Ghani -- Keith Hitchins -- John D. Yohannan ; G. M. Wickens -- Mohammed R. Ghanoonparvar, Michael C. Hillman, and John D. Yohannan.