| ISBN |
067408828X (softcover) |
| 9780674088283 (softcover) |
| Title |
Erin and Iran : cultural encounters between the Irish and the Iranians / edited by H.E. Chehabi and Grace Neville |
| Publisher |
Boston, MA : Ilex Foundation, 2015 |
| Physical desc. |
xv, 208 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. |
| Series |
Ilex Foundation series 16 |
| Note |
Fourth printing, March 2023. |
| Distributed by Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, and London, England. |
| Bibliography etc. |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-208). |
| Contents |
Introduction -- The 'conqueror worm' in Irish and Persian literature / Joseph Falaky Nagy -- Building bulls and crafting cows: narratives of bovine fabrication from Iran, Ireland, and in-between / John McDonald -- Parallel heroic themes in the medieval Irish Cattle raid of Cooley and the medieval Persian Book of kings / Olga Davidson -- A trout in the milk: Vis and Ramin and Tristan and Isolde / Dick Davis -- 'From Hafiz': Irish Orientalism, Persian poetry, and W.B. Yeats / Oliver Scharbrodt -- Joycean modernism in a nineteenth-century Qur'an commentary?: a comparison of the Bab's Qayyum al-Asma with Joyce's Ulysses / Todd Lawson -- Sharing poetic sensitivity and misery: encounters of Iranians with the Irish in travel writings and fiction / M.R. Ghanoonparvar -- An Indo-Persian in Ireland, anno 1799: Mirza Abu Taleb Khan / translated by H.E. Chehabi-- An Irish visitor to the court of the Shah of Persia in 1835: extract from the unpublished diary of Sir Francis Hopkins of Athboy / David James -- An Irishwoman in Tehran, 1849-853: identity, religion, and empire / Brendan McNamara. |
| 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 |
| Added name(s) |
Chehabi, H. E. editor |
| Neville, Grace editor |
