Introduction

Part I: Iranian Poets and Sufism
1. Rudaki
2. Ferdowsi, Homer of the East
3. Omar Khayyam
4. Sa‘di, the Monarch of Eloquence
5. Hafez, the Nightingale of shiraz
6. Rumi, the Supreme Mystic
7. Three Dimensions of Sufism
Part II: Iranian Languages
8. Persian Language
9. Avesta Language

Part III: Criticism and Literary Schools
10. Interpretation and Hermeneutics
11. Semiotics
12. Structuralist Criticism
13. Poststructuralism
14. Psychological and Psychoanalytic Criticism
15. What Is a Text?

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