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Mute Dreams, Blind Owls & Dispersed Knowledges: Persian Poesis
in the Transnational Circuitry
By Michael M.J. Fischer
Duke University Press, 2003
Prelude:
After Epic, Writing/Painting, and Film
Part I. After Zarathustra Spoke: Ritual, Epic, and Philosophical Forms of Reason
1. Yasna:
Performative Ritual, Narrative Mnemonic
2. Shahnameh:
Parable Logic
Coda: Illuminationism:
Philosophical Allegory
Part II. After Film: Textual and Cinematic Forms of Ethical Reason
3. Awaiting the Revolution:
Surrealism Persian Style
4. Filmic Judgment and Cultural Critique:
The Work of Art, Ethics and Religion in post-Revolution Iranian Cinema
5. War Again: Qandahar, 911 --
Figure and Discourse in Iranian Cinematic Writing
Coda: Balancing Acts (After 9/11)
Epilogue:
Beyond "Mobile Armies
of Metaphors": Scheherezade Films the Games
Notes
Bibliography
Index