About the Author

Iraj Parsinejad has taught Persian literature at Oxford and Tokyo universities. This book is the product of fourteen years of research.

Reviews

"Until recently, the history of literary criticism in Iran was a neglected area of inquiry. This book, which has been in preparation for many years, features a descriptive history of that crucial field in the latter part of the nineteenth and the early part of the twentieth centuries. It also includes biographies of several major literary critics, which gives it a secondary use as a source of information on the evolution of aesthetic norms in modern Iran..." -- Ahmad Karimi-Hakkak, Professor of Persian, University of Washington.