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Author : Olga M. Davidson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Comparative Literature and Classical Persian Poetics written by Olga M. Davidson and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : A.J Arberry
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135799008
Total Pages : 347 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (357 download)
Download or read book Classical Persian Literature written by A.J Arberry and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-01-16 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of a classic text, this volume gives an insight into the rebirth of national literature in the national language and traces the course of its development and full maturity from the beginning of the ninth to the end of the fifteenth century.
Author : Suzanne Pinckney Stetkevych
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253354938
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (549 download)
Download or read book Reorientations / Arabic and Persian Poetry written by Suzanne Pinckney Stetkevych and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1994-03-22 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Employing contemporary literary theory, eight members of the "Chicago school" of Arabic and Persian literature reorient the critical approach to classical Middle Eastern literature. The authors analyze a broad spectrum of poetry, ranging from the pre-Islamic ode of the sixth century to seventeenth-century Persian Safavid Moghul verse. Among issues considered are the ritual and sacrificial aspects of literature, the transition from orality to literacy, the iconographical and mythic dimensions of philology, and imitation as a form of creation. The inclusion of contemporary translations of all the poems discussed is an important feature for students of Middle Eastern literature and comparative poetics.
Author : Mostafa Abedinifard
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1501354205
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (13 download)
Download or read book Persian Literature as World Literature written by Mostafa Abedinifard and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2021-07-15 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Confronting nationalistic and nativist interpreting practices in Persianate literary scholarship, Persian Literature as World Literature makes a case for reading these literatures as world literature-as transnational, worldly texts that expand beyond local and national penchants. Working through an idea of world literature that is both cosmopolitan and critical of any monologic view on globalization, the contributors to this volume revisit the early and contemporary circulation of Persianate literatures across neighboring and distant cultures, and seek innovative ways of developing a transnational Persian literary studies, engaging in constructive dialogues with the global forces surrounding, and shaping, Persianate societies and cultures.
Author : Olga M. Davidson
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501733974
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Poet and Hero in the Persian Book of Kings written by Olga M. Davidson and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2019-07-15 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A masterpiece of Persian Classical epic, the Shahnama or Book of Kings was composed by Abu'l-Qasem Ferdowsi at the beginning of the eleventh century. Because the Shahnama presents itself as a chronicle of the reigns of the shahs from the primordial founders to the Sasanian dynasty which ended in 651, scholarly attention has centered on the question of its historical accuracy. Addressing the literary as well as the historical and mythological aspects of the Shahnama, Olga M. Davidson makes this centerpiece of Iranian culture accessible to Western readers. Drawing on recent work in epic studies and oral poetics, Davidson considers analogies with Classical and medieval European narratives as she investigates the poem's social contexts. Her interpretation of the Shahnama focuses on both the figure of the poet himself and on his protagonists-the superhuman hero Rostam and the historical or historicized shahs. Exploring the Shahnama as an example of court poetry designed to glorify the idea of empire, Davidson identifies as a driving force of Ferdowsi's narrative a strong current of antagonism between king and hero. Ironically, she shows, it is the epic hero himself who poses the greatest threat to the concept of kingship that he is sworn to defend. Poet and Hero in the Persian Book of Kings will be welcomed by readers working in such fields as comparative literature, Middle Eastern Studies, folklore, literary theory, and comparative religion.
Author : A. J. Arberry
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315452723
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (154 download)
Download or read book Routledge Revivals: Classical Persian Literature (1958) written by A. J. Arberry and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-10-04 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1958, this work by one of Britain’s most celebrated Orientalist scholars, tells the story of the rebirth of national literature in Persia after the fall of the Sᾱsᾱnian empire in the seventh century. It traces the course of this literature’s development and full maturity from the ninth century to the end of the fifteenth century and looks at a number of important writers including the Saljῡq poets, Rῡmῑ, ῌᾱfiz and Jᾱmῑ. This work will be of interest to those studying Persian and Middle-Eastern literature and history.
Author : Domenico Ingenito
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004435905
Total Pages : 717 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)
Download or read book Beholding Beauty written by Domenico Ingenito and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-12-29 with total page 717 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Beholding Beauty: Saʿdi of Shiraz and the Aesthetics of Desire in Medieval Persian Poetry, Domenico Ingenito explores the unstudied connections between eroticism, spirituality, and politics in the lyric poetry of 13th-century literary master Sa‘di Shirazi.
Author : Leonard Lewisohn
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0857710362
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (577 download)
Download or read book Hafiz and the Religion of Love in Classical Persian Poetry written by Leonard Lewisohn and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2010-06-02 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I.B.Tauris in association with the Iran Heritage Foundation
Author : Kamran Talattof
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1351341731
Total Pages : 801 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (513 download)
Download or read book Routledge Handbook of Ancient, Classical and Late Classical Persian Literature written by Kamran Talattof and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-06-06 with total page 801 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Handbook of Ancient, Classical, and Late Classical Persian Literature contains scholarly essays and sample texts related to Persian literature from 650 BCE through the 16th century CE. It includes analyses of some seminal ancient texts and the works of numerous authors of the classical period. The chapters apply a disciplinary or interdisciplinary approach to the many movements, genres, and works of the long and evolving body of Persian literature produced in the Persianate World. These collections of scholarly essays and samples of Persian literary texts provide facts (general information), instructions (ways to understand, analyze, and appreciate this body of works), and the field’s state-of-the-art research (the problematics of the topics) regarding one of the most important and oldest literary traditions in the world. Thus, the Handbook’s chapters and related texts provide scholars, students, and admirers of Persian poetry and prose with practical and direct access to the intricacies of the Persian literary world through a chronological account of key moments in the formation of this enduring literary tradition. The related Handbook (also edited by Kamran Talattof ), Routledge Handbook of Post Classical and Contemporary Persian Literature, covers Persian literary works from the 17th century to the present.
Author : J. T. P. de Bruijn
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136780491
Total Pages : 149 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (367 download)
Download or read book Persian Sufi Poetry written by J. T. P. de Bruijn and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-01-14 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focuses on the poems rather than on their authors. Surveys the development of Persian mystical poetry, dealing first with the relation between Sufism and literature and then with the four main genres of the tradition: the epigram, the homiletic poem, love poetry and symbolic narrative.
Author : Rebecca Ruth Gould
Publisher : Edinburgh Historical Studies of Iran and the Persian World
ISBN 13 : 9781474484015
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (84 download)
Download or read book The Persian Prison Poem written by Rebecca Ruth Gould and published by Edinburgh Historical Studies of Iran and the Persian World. This book was released on 2021-12-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first English-language study of the Persian prison poem Through a series of insightful and sophisticated readings, this book reveals the worldliness of premodern Persian poetry. It traces the political role of poetry in shaping the prison poem genre (habsiyyat) across 12th-century Central, South and West Asia. The emergence of the genre is indebted to the increasing importance of the poet, who came into increasing conflict with Ghaznavid and Saljuq sovereigns as the genre developed. Uniting the polarities of perpetuity and contingency, the poet's body became the medium for the prison poem's oppositional poetics. Bringing theorists as wide ranging as Kantorowicz, Benjamin and Adorno into conversation with classical Persian poetics, this book offers an unprecedented account of prison poetry before modernity, and of premodern Persianate culture within the framework of world literature and global politics. Key Features - Develops a new approach to genre based on the political status of the prison poem - Offers an unprecedented account of the interrelations of poetry and power in premodern literature - Sheds new light on Muslim-Christian relations by documenting the multi-confessional orientation of many prison poems - Relates the trajectory of the prison poem genre in premodern poetics to Iranian literary modernism, including the prison poems of Muhammad Taqi Bahar Rebecca Ruth Gould is Professor, Islamic World and Comparative Literature at the University of Birmingham. She is the author of the poetry collections Beautiful English (2021) and Cityscapes (2019), the monograph Writers and Rebels: The Literature of Insurgency in the Caucasus (2016), and co-editor of The Routledge Handbook of Translation and Activism (2020).
Author : Samuel Hodgkin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009411640
Total Pages : 546 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (94 download)
Download or read book Persianate Verse and the Poetics of Eastern Internationalism written by Samuel Hodgkin and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-12-21 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the height of literary nationalisms in the twentieth century, leftist internationalists from Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan, India, and the Soviet East bonded over their shared love of the classical Persian verses of Hafiz and Khayyam. At writers' congresses and in communist literary journals, they affirmed their friendship and solidarity with lyric ghazals and ruba'iyat. Persianate poetry became the cultural commons for a distinctively Eastern internationalism, shaping national literatures in the Soviet Union, the Middle East, and South Asia. By the early Cold War, the literary entanglement between Persianate culture and communism had established models for cultural decolonization that would ultimately outlast the Soviet imperial project. In the archive of literature produced under communism in Persian, Tajik, Dari, Turkish, Uzbek, Azerbaijani, Armenian, and Russian, this book finds a vital alternative to Western globalized world literature.
Author : John D. Yohannan
Publisher : Academic Resources Corp
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (311 download)
Download or read book Persian Poetry in England and America written by John D. Yohannan and published by Academic Resources Corp. This book was released on 1977 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comprehensive treatment of the influence of Persian poetry upon English & American literature. Contains a definitive bibliography.
Author : Wheeler McIntosh Thackston
Publisher : Ibex Publishers, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0936347503
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (363 download)
Download or read book A Millennium of Classical Persian Poetry written by Wheeler McIntosh Thackston and published by Ibex Publishers, Inc.. This book was released on 1994 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A Millennium Of Classical Persian Poetry" is a guide to the reading & understanding of Persian poetry from the tenth to the twentieth century.
Author : Gn Memon
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (635 download)
Download or read book Elements of Sufism in the Poetry of Rumi and Whitman written by Gn Memon and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-08-24 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This research work is a comparative study of the Persian poet Jalal ad-Din Rumi and the American poet Walt Whitman. The first question which arises here is how far it is feasible to study these two poets, remote not only in time and space but also in culture, tradition, language, and nationality. The key phrase in this topic is 'Comparative Study.' Comparative Literary Study can be defined as an academic field dealing with the study of literature and cultural expressions across linguistic, national, and disciplinary boundaries. It "performs a role similar to that of the study of international relations, but work with languages and artistic traditions, to understand cultures from the inside." In short, Comparative Literature is "literature without borders." The present comparative study tries to investigate the common Sufi and transcendental elements in Rumi and Whitman and also the former's influence on the latter. Despite geographical, linguistic, and historical differences, certain common ideas seem to exist between the two poets and this makes this research on comparative study an interesting one. To compare and examine the Sufi notions Rumi's Mathnavi Manavi and Divan Shams and Whitman's Leaves of Grass have been considered in this research work. A glance at the previous studies of Rumi and Whitman reveals that the elements of 'Sufism' have been ignored in the poetry of Whitman. In the present study, the following questions have been enquired: What is 'Sufism'? How did it arise? What are its essential features? What is classical Persian Sufi poetry? Who are the masters of classical Persian Sufi poetry and how they have influenced Rumi? How has 'Sufism' influenced both Rumi and Whitman? Has Rumi influenced Whitman? What are the common Sufi elements in Rumi and Whitman? All in all, the mystical thoughts of both poets are so close, and because Rumi's mystical thoughts are interpreted in the field of 'Islamic mysticism' which is 'Sufism', hence, the strong affinity between the two poets has been investigated in terms of Sufi aspect. Evidence represented that Whitman was familiar with Persian poetry and Islamic mysticism, and he was inspired by the beauty of Sufi poetry. Both poets considered self-knowledge as the only way for salvation. Rumi and Whitman emphasized the soul of man, which is mixed with the Nature of immortality. They believed human eternal love is widespread in all creations. In their idea, annihilation can be achieved by love, which is the most important element of creation.
Author : Gregory Nagy
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674241681
Total Pages : 657 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (742 download)
Download or read book The Ancient Greek Hero in 24 Hours written by Gregory Nagy and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2020-01-10 with total page 657 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ancient Greeks’ concept of “the hero” was very different from what we understand by the term today. In 24 installments, based on the Harvard course Nagy has taught and refined since the 1970s, The Ancient Greek Hero in 24 Hours explores civilization’s roots in Classical literature—a lineage that continues to challenge and inspire us.
Author : Mohsen Ashtiany
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1786736640
Total Pages : 658 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (867 download)
Download or read book Persian Narrative Poetry in the Classical Era, 800-1500: Romantic and Didactic Genres written by Mohsen Ashtiany and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-01-12 with total page 658 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The third volume in this ground-breaking series, Persian Narrative Poetry in the Classical Era, 800-1500: Romantic and Didactic Genres, introduces masterpieces of Persian literature from these seven centuries to an international audience. In the process, it underlines the remarkable tenacity of their malleable tradition: the perennial dialogue and the interconnectedness which binds together a vast and varied literature composed of many threads, romantic and didactic, in many lands, from Anatolia and Iran to India and Central Asia. In its companion volume, Persian Lyric in the Classical Era, 800-1500, the readers of the series will have already met in passing all the mythical and historical figures who appear with far more aplomb on the stage here, with their lives narrated in detail by poets of different caliber from different perspectives. The first two chapters of this volume recount the literary history of the entire period, focusing on didactic and romantic narratives. The central chapters take a closer look at the towering figure of the poet Nezâmi Ganjavi. The final chapter takes the reader to a wider landscape tracing the footsteps of Alexander across the globe, offering insights to the cultural preoccupations refracted in so many versions past and present.
