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Behnam M. Fomeshi deposited Alireza Abiz. Censorship of Literature in Post-Revolutionary Iran: Politics and Culture Since 1979 in the group
Arts and Humanities Funding on Humanities Commons 3 months, 3 weeks ago
The author does justice to a subject often mentioned, yet rarely studied. He succeeds in its purpose, i.e., providing “as genuine a picture as possible of the censorship of literature after the 1979 Revolution” followed by discussing “the effects of this unique censorship regime on the Iranian literature of the time” (9). Drawing from his experie…[Read more]
Behnam M. Fomeshi deposited Roger Sedarat. Emerson in Iran: The American Appropriation of Persian Poetry in the group
Arts and Humanities Funding on Humanities Commons 3 months, 3 weeks ago
Through the case of Emerson’s appropriation of Persian poetry this volume provides a thought-provoking example of how the literary founding father of a nation is cosmopolitan and receptive of foreign cultures in what might seem a purely “nationalistic” agenda. It will appeal to those in the field of Persian literature, comparative liter…[Read more]
Flavia De Nicola deposited Nuove acquisizioni sulla prima attività romana di Michelangelo Buonarroti connessa con l’Umanesimo dei Pomponiani in the group
Arts and Humanities Funding on Humanities Commons 1 year, 6 months ago
Young Michelangelo Buonarroti’s experience was deeply marked by his cult of Antiquity, reverberated in the creation of artworks such as the Sleeping Cupid and the Bacchus and shared with Raffaele Riario and Jacopo Galli, his patrons during his first stay in Rome (1496-1501).
The cardinal-camerlengo Raffaele Riario was an important promoter of t…[Read more]Flavia De Nicola deposited Equus infoelicitatis: analisi iconografica di una xilografia dell’ Hypnerotomachia Poliphili fra testo e immagine, xilografia n. 6 in the group
Arts and Humanities Funding on Humanities Commons 1 year, 6 months ago
The peculiar iconography of the winged horse surmounted by several puttos, as appears in the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili sixth woodcut, turns out to be unprecedented and enigmatic at a glance and it’s the result of the depth and complexity of the author’s concepts.
Considering the iconographic details of the sculptural group as well as the text sca…[Read more]Behnam M. Fomeshi deposited Nimā Yushij in the group
Arts and Humanities Funding on Humanities Commons 2 years, 2 months ago
Nimā Yushij (1897-1960), the first major modern Persian poet, developed a poetic form later called New Poetry, Free Poetry or Nimāic Poetry to remove the restrictions of traditional rhyme and meter. Although he was not the only or even the first trying to modernize Persian poetry, he was the one on whom was bestowed the title “the father of mod…[Read more]
Kalle Westerling started the topic Opportunity: Digital Humanities Research Institute, June 15–24, 2020 in the discussion
Arts and Humanities Funding on Humanities Commons 2 years, 3 months ago
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You are invited to apply for the second Digital Humanities Research Institute (DHRI), which will take place at The Graduate Center, City University of New York. This ten-day institute will introduce participants to core digital humanities skills, and…[Read more]Helga Müllneritsch deposited The Chameleon in the Kitchen: The Plural Identities of the Manuscript ‘Cookery Book’ in the group
Arts and Humanities Funding on Humanities Commons 2 years, 3 months ago
Begbrook MS, AC1420; Mathias Zelena: Cod. Ser. n. 12174 (Die Kunst zu kochen I) and Cod. Ser. n. 12175 (Die Kunst zu kochen II); Schoolboy’s Aids to Arithmetic; MS 136 (OÖLB); MS 119 (OÖLB); MS 1963 (UBG)
Behnam M. Fomeshi deposited Literary Translation in Modern Iran: A Sociological Study in the group
Arts and Humanities Funding on Humanities Commons 2 years, 3 months ago
Book Review Literary Translation in Modern Iran: A Sociological Study by Esmaeil Haddadian-Moghaddam, Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2014, ISBN 978 90 272 5854 0 (hbk), 236 pp
Behnam M. Fomeshi deposited The Persian Whitman: Beyond a Literary Reception in the group
Arts and Humanities Funding on Humanities Commons 2 years, 11 months ago
Walt Whitman, a world poet and the father of American free verse, has been received by diverse audiences from around the world. Literary and cultural scholars have studied Whitman’s interaction with social, political and literary movements of different countries. Despite his continuing presence in Iran, Whitman’s reception in this country has rem…[Read more]
Eric Sirota started the topic Without arts and humanities, you're left with only STEM. in the discussion
Arts and Humanities Funding on Humanities Commons 3 years, 5 months ago
Without arts and humanities, you’re left with only STEM.
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https://TheFrankensteinMusical.comBehnam M. Fomeshi deposited “Something Foreign In It”: A Study of an Iranian Translation of Whitman’s Image in the group
Arts and Humanities Funding on Humanities Commons 3 years, 5 months ago
Addressing Walt Whitman’s reception in Iran, the present essay focuses on the front cover of a book-length translation of Whitman into Persian to study how Whitman’s image is visually translated for an Iranian audience. Among literary discourses of contemporary Iran, the one that associates poetry with mysticism plays the most significant role in…[Read more]
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