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Born in Istanbul, Turkey, to Iranian parents, Solmaz Sharif holds degrees from the University of California, Berkeley, where she studied and taught with June Jordan’s Poetry for the People, and New York University. She is the author of the poetry collection Look (Graywolf Press, 2016), a finalist for the National Book Award and the PEN Open Book Award and the winner of the 2017 American Book.

A List of Famous Iranian Poets includes Poems and Biographical information of the most Famous Iranian Poets. Read and Enjoy Poetry by Iranian Poets.

Persepolis is a bildungsroman that tells the story of Marji, a young Iranian girl growing up during a time of revolution, turmoil, and war. Her path of growth and development changes direction at a single moment, and she begins to grow up into a young adult with her own views and opinions.

In spite of a rich trove of classical works (mainly poems), modern Iranian literature is less than a hundred years old. If we consider the works of Sadegh Hedayat (1903-1951) in fiction and Nima Yushij (1895-1960) in poetry as the beginning of Iran's modern literature, then we can discern two influential factors in its development. First, there.

Horace, outstanding Latin lyric poet and satirist under the emperor Augustus. The most frequent themes of his Odes and verse Epistles are love, friendship, philosophy, and the art of poetry.

Middle East. Arab-American literature and culture are many things, and perhaps its multitudes trace back to the slow breakup of the Ottoman Empire, whose various peoples and languages and cultures and faiths echo the dazzling diversity of the new Arab-American literature in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.

When it comes to choosing history research paper topics, students often have a hard time. The list provided in this page will help students come up with the best topic ideas for papers on world history.

Example 1 REFLECTION ESSAY As I sit down to reflect on my time in the English major at erry, I’m roughly three months removed from my last English class. At the moment, I’m in the middle of a semester-long student teaching experience at Armuchee High School, finishing out my Secondary Education minor and preparing for the “real world” of teaching that awaits me after May 10th. At this.

This course examines major issues in American literature that pertain to both the ethnic experience in America as expressed by members of ethnic communities and the way in which American race or ethnicity has been narrated by authors outside those communities. It will examine world-views and.

Essential Question: “How is identity affected by the fundamental values of the American Dream and in what ways can this construction be represented through images?” Through an examination of various cultural symbols -- textual and visual -- students collaboratively analyze the emergent concept of the American Dream and its expression in the literary and visual arts.

Hence we will read this text before analyzing Jameson’s essay and Ahmed’s response to it. We will also analyze a short story by the Indian writer Premchand, which takes an ironic view of colonial education. Week 1: Jan 28: Issues in Defining World Literature: David Damrosch, “World Enough and Time,” in What is World Literature?

Through texts in a variety of genres (novel, short story, poem, literary non-fiction, graphic novel), and from a variety of cultural perspectives (African-American, Iranian-American, Latino, Native American), students analyze not only how characters define their identity, but also how they struggle with defining themselves in relation to the.