Modern American literature and contemporary Iranian cinema identity, appropriation, and recontextualization / Morteza Yazdanjoo.
| Author/creator | Yazdanjoo, Morteza |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | New York : Routledge, 2023. |
| Description | volumes cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Taylor & Francis eBooks |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from eBooks on EBSCOhost |
| Subjects |
| Series | Routledge studies in comparative literature |
| Contents | Adaptation studies, cultural materialism, and cultural studies: an intertextual dialogue -- Narrative trajectories of national identity in Iranian cinema: a historical long shot -- Performing the poetics of the Iranian Dream in popular culture: Dariush Mehrjui's appropriation of Saul Bellow's Herzog and J. D. Salinger's Franny and Zooey -- Watching Tenessee Williams in Iran: the sanctity of family reconstituted -- Birth of a salesman: revisiting Willie Loman in Tehran -- Conclusion |
| Abstract | "As an endeavour to contribute to the burgeoning field of comparative literature, this monograph addresses the dynamic yet understudied "intertextual dialogism" between modern American literature and contemporary Iranian Cinema, pinpointing how the latter appropriates and recontextualizes instances of the latter to construct and inculcate vestiges of national/gender identity on the silver screen. Drawing on Louis Montrose's catchphrase that Cultural Materialism foregrounds "the textuality of history, [and] the historicity of texts", this book contends that literary "texts" are synchronic artifacts prone to myriad intertextual and extra-textual readings and understandings, each historically conditioned. The recontextualization of Herzog, Franny and Zooey, The Glass Menagerie, A Streetcar Named Desire, and Death of a Salesman into contemporary Iran provides an intertextual avenue to delineate the textuality of history and the historicity of texts"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2022035787 |
| ISBN | 9781032389714 (hardback) |
| ISBN | 9781032389721 (paperback) |
| ISBN | (ebook) |
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| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
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| Electronic Resources | ✔ Available |