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The Persianate Cosmology of Historical Inquiry in the Caucasus: ʿ Abbās Qulī Āghā Bākīkhānūf’s Cosmological Cosmopolitanism
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Comparative Literature (2019) 71 (3): 272–297.
Published: 01 September 2019
...). Bākīkhānūf’s historical work conceptualizes community outside the framework of the nation, while conjoining distinctive strands of epistemic and cultural cosmopolitanism. As I explore Bākīkhānūf’s historical writing, I consider how the Persianate literary tradition of which he partakes advance a cosmopolitan...
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Hearing Celtic Minstrelsy in Persian: Henry Louis Vivian Derozio, Kasiprasad Ghosh, and Audiation in Anglo-Indian Persianate Poetry
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Comparative Literature (2025) 77 (2): 145–167.
Published: 01 June 2025
... their contributions to global Anglophone literature, they have obscured the Persianate past’s ongoing audial resonances. This article’s two case studies are Derozio’s parodic imitations of Hafiz’s ghazals in the late 1820s and Ghosh’s Sanskritizing of the popular Arabic-Persian romance Layla and Majnun in his debut...
View articletitled, Hearing Celtic Minstrelsy in <span class="search-highlight">Persian</span>: Henry Louis Vivian Derozio, Kasiprasad Ghosh, and Audiation in Anglo-Indian <span class="search-highlight">Persianate</span> Poetry
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Suspicious Gifts and Speculative Translations: Colonial and Semicolonial Encounters between English and Persian
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Comparative Literature (2023) 75 (4): 395–414.
Published: 01 December 2023
..., economic exchange and translation circularly feed into each other’s ambiguities in this semicolonial context. The problem, as Burke presents it here, is not untranslatability. The challenge is not lack of signifiers or linguistic categories in the Persian language; it is, rather, occasional misnaming...
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Translating Line Breaks: A View from Persian Poetics
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Comparative Literature (2023) 75 (3): 373–391.
Published: 01 September 2023
... and modernist line breaks through examples from Persian and European literary canons. From Shams-i Qays’s classic treatise on Persian prosody to Arthur Rimbaud and William Carlos Williams to modernist poet Bijan Elahi’s poetic rewriting of One Thousand and One Nights , we explore the options open...
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Comparative diagram of classical and modern Persian poetic lines: (a) Regul...
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Figure 1. Comparative diagram of classical and modern Persian poetic lines: (a) Regular classical bayt comprising two mesraʿ s of equal length; (b) Line pattern of mostazad with an added shorter line to the end of each mesraʿ ; (c) Line pattern of mokhammas ; (d) a hypothetical tasnif
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in Transcending Transcendental Homelessness: Exile and the Idea of the Primitive in Brazil
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Published: 01 June 2024
Figure 1. Dimitri Ismailovitch, Persian Princess (Portrait of Maria Margarida Soutello) (1941). Oil on canvas, 94 × 72 cm. Mendes Cavalcanti collection, Rio de Janeiro. Photograph by Mariza Lima.
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Ephemeral Asia: Position without Identity in the Modernist Urdu Poetry of N.m. Rashed
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Comparative Literature (2012) 64 (1): 73–92.
Published: 01 March 2012
... in Iran — the motherland of the Persian language and culture that pervades Urdu — for his cultural past, but what he finds instead is an extension of his colonial present. The Urdu literary establishment at this time was dominated by progressive ( taraqqi pasand ) critics, who promoted a Hindustani...
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Gained in Translation: Faiz Ahmed Faiz’s Soviet Travels
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Comparative Literature (2021) 73 (1): 41–60.
Published: 01 March 2021
... into the richly ambiguous Indo-Persian literary and cultural idiom. The article examines the ambiguities introduced into Faiz’s text through intertextuality with this idiom derived from the Persian dastān and Urdu ghazel traditions. With the help of both direct and indirect allusion to those traditions, Faiz’s...
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The Ghazal as “World Poetry”: Between Worlding and Vernacularization
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Comparative Literature (2022) 74 (1): 25–51.
Published: 01 March 2022
... of the ghazal as both transhistorical and transnational rely on a discourse of “worlding” as an imperial project of cultural recovery and homogenization. In contrast, this article employs the methodology of historical poetics to argue via a reading of meta-ghazals in Persian, Urdu, and English that reading...
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The Multilingual Local in World Literature
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Comparative Literature (2015) 67 (4): 345–374.
Published: 01 December 2015
... Kumkum . “The Persianization of ‘Itihasa’: Performance Narratives and Mughal Political Culture in Eighteenth-Century Bengal.” The Journal of Asian Studies 67 . 2 ( 2008 ): 513 – 43 . Print . Chaturman Kaith Raizada . Akhbār al-navādir ma‘rūf bih Chahār gulshan . Ed. Chandrashekhar...
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Dialogues across Cultures: Adaptations of Chinese Verse by Judith Gautier and Nikolai Gumilev
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Comparative Literature (2002) 54 (2): 145–164.
Published: 01 March 2002
..., dedicated study of Oriental philosophy and culture, and of
the Chinese, Japanese and Persian languages. Despite the fact that Judith never
3 Even Slobodniuk, who in principle rejects the primacy of Western influence in Gumilev’s “Ori-
ental works,” makes an exception for The Porcelain Pavilion...
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To Africanize Spain: Twentieth-Century Spanish Poetry and the Persistent Forms of al-Andalus
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Comparative Literature (2021) 73 (4): 421–441.
Published: 01 December 2021
... to revive interest in the diverse racial, cultural, and religious influences on the origins of flamenco. 9 The Arabic poems in Conde de Noroña’s anthology range from the pre-Islamic period ( ante-Islam ) to the Andalusi period in the fourteenth century, and also include translations of Persian...
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Migrant Sense and Migrant Sensibility
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Comparative Literature (2025) 77 (2): 248–252.
Published: 01 June 2025
... on a sensual immediacy that was always part of European Romanticism but increasingly subjugated by the mind, the “lord and master” of “outward sense,” as Wordsworth put it in The Prelude , whose will the senses serve. Migrant Romanticism enabled a Persianate literary tradition that centered the oral...
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Comparative Literature (2025) 77 (2): 137–144.
Published: 01 June 2025
.... Correcting the unilinear perception of Asian Romanticism as derivative of the original British source, Humberto García inaugurates the dossier with an examination of the ways in which India’s Persianized past shaped Anglophone poetic sensibilities in the early nineteenth century. García traces how what has...
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Global Renaissance: Alexander the Great and Early Modern Classicism from the British Isles to the Malay Archipelago
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Comparative Literature (2006) 58 (4): 293–312.
Published: 01 September 2006
.... Translated into Syriac, the source for eastern versions of the tale, it
found its way to Ethiopia, Mongolia, and Persia in further translations and adap-
tations.3 Particularly through its Persian interpreters, of whom the celebrated
poets Firdawsi (941-1019) and Nizami (1140-1203) are the best known...
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Impassivities: From Paradise Lost to Hellas
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Comparative Literature (2020) 72 (2): 114–127.
Published: 01 June 2020
... to Egyptian, Persian, or Arab) heritage (149). 7 Shelley reimagines Milton’s war in Heaven in world-historical terms, as he describes his own historical moment as “the age of the war of the oppressed against the oppressors,” thus situating Greece against the privileged gang of “murderers and swindlers...
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Rebuilding a Profession: A Bibliometric Analysis of the Linguistic Culture of Comparative Literature in the United States and Spain
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Comparative Literature (2021) 73 (3): 270–288.
Published: 01 September 2021
... — 5.30% German 11.44% 6.06% Greek 2.99% 3.79% Hebrew 0.50% — Italian 4.98% 2.27% Latin 9.95% 4.55% Persian — 0.76% Polish 0.50% — Portuguese 1.00% 1.52% Russian 1.00% 0.76% Sanskrit 0.50% — Spanish 6.97% 29.55% Swedish 0.50% 0.76% No language...
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Bombay Hustle: Making Movies in a Colonial City Relaying Cinema in Midcentury Iran: Material Cultures in Transit Japonisme and the Birth of Cinema
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Comparative Literature (2023) 75 (2): 227–232.
Published: 01 June 2023
... they are not new” (23). The neutralization of terms such as borrowing and even appropriation would allow the more nuanced conceptualization we need in the study of cinema as globally circulating mass culture, exemplified by Iranian film print transformations—English dialogue “swapped out” for Persian—made...
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The Play of Living Creation: Time and Finitude in Tagore's Humanism
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Comparative Literature (2013) 65 (1): 46–61.
Published: 01 March 2013
... a language that is at once poetic, his-
torical, and philosophical. Furthermore, by deliberately bringing Sanskrit words
and diction into Bengali poetry to overcome metrical problems, mingling these
forms with an idiomatic vernacular as well as with words and phrases imported
from Arabic and Persian...
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The Multisensorial Ramayana and Its Migrant Afterlife in the Making of German Romanticism and Narendra Modi’s India
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Comparative Literature (2025) 77 (2): 188–212.
Published: 01 June 2025
... of the Indians”), Friedrich Schlegel presented such a history: he famously concluded that Sanskrit was the source from which German, Greek, Latin, and Persian were derived, and that the ancestors of the Germans wandered over from India (Turner 129). The appeal of an ancient language like Sanskrit, for Friedrich...
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