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The Peries Project

Devin Griffiths

I am a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Pennsylvania, and will be taking a position as an assistant professor at the University of Southern California in the fall of 2012. Please contact me by email, or visit my website for more information about my work.

• About the Project
  • Devin Griffiths
• The Readerly Edition: Introduction
  • Pages 1-45
  • Pages 46-90
  • Pages 91-134
  • Pages 135-171
• Who was John Leyden?
  • Leyden and Language
  • Leyden's Political Connections
    • The EIC and Lord Minto's Foreign Policy
    • Lord Minto's perspective on Leyden
    • Sir John Malcolm's perspective on Leyden
    • Stamford Raffles' perspective on Leyden
  • Leyden's Travels
  • Leyden Bibliography
    • Reith's bibliographic essay on Leydenalia
• A Cultural Background from Past to Present Persia
  • Ancient Persian Ruling System
  • Animals in Ancient Persian Culture
  • Cultural Practices in Ancient Persia
  • Historical and Cultural Accuracy and its effect on the Tales of the Peries
  • Nomenclature of the Peries Tale
  • Peries
  • Zoroastrianism and Peries
  • The Afterlife of the Peries in Western Culture
• Interactive Map
  • Melech Mohammed Map
  • Roshen Zemir Map
  • Diu Foz Map
• Criticism of the Verse in The Peries
  • Poetic Technique and Form
  • The Figure of "The Poet"
  • Literary Influences: Romanticism and Urdu
• PeriesProjectWiki

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