Publisher's Synopsis
This book celebrates the impressive and extensive scholarship of Michael Craig Hillmann, Professor of Persian language and literature at the University of Texas at Austin. His long list of publications has been a valuable source to generations of scholars as can be seen in the varied gamut of chapters herein-a testament to that contribution. Specializing in lyric Persian verse, Persian prose fiction from the 1920s through the 1970s, and literary autobiography, Hillman has, since the 1990s, focused on Persian instructional materials development, resulting in, amongst other things, a new Persian language learning syllabus. In honouring his life's work and substantial theoretical contributions, the volume covers numerous aspects of Persian language and literature, such as the evolution of Persian prose fiction written by Iranian writers in the twentieth century, Indo-Persian after colonialism, marriage, and sensuality in Iranian poetry, the nativization of Persian loanwords in Turkish, Sufi philosophy and imagery in classical Persian literature, and various dimensions of teaching Persian as a foreign language, amongst others. This is an indispensable critical edition for scholars in Persian language, literature, and linguistics.
