Author: A.J ArberryPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135799008
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 347
Book Description
Reprint of a classic text.
Classical Persian Literature
Author: A.J ArberryPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135799008
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 347
Book Description
Reprint of a classic text.
Comparative Literature and Classical Persian Poetics
Author: Olga M. DavidsonPublisher:
ISBN: 9780674073203
Category : Comparative literature
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Olga M. Davidson applies comparative literary approaches to classical Persian traditions of composing and performing poetry and song. She focuses on the eleventh-century ce epic Shahnama and its relationship to other genres embedded in it, including forms of verbal art originally composed without the aid of writing, such as women's laments.
Shahnameh
Author: FirdawsīPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9780670034857
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 936
Book Description
A new translation of the late-tenth-century Persian epic follows its story of pre-Islamic Iran's mythic time of Creation through the seventh-century Arab invasion, tracing ancient Persia's incorporation into an expanding Islamic empire. 15,000 first printing.
Routledge Revivals: Classical Persian Literature (1958)
Author: A. J. ArberryPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1315452723
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
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.
Persian Sufi Poetry
Author: J. T. P. de BruijnPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136780564
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
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.
Hafiz and the Religion of Love in Classical Persian Poetry
Author: Leonard LewisohnPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 0857736604
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
The romantic lyricism of the great Persian poet Hafiz (1315-1390) continues to be admired around the world. Recent exploration of that lyricism by Iranian scholars has revealed that, in addition to his masterful use of poetic devices, Hafiz's verse is deeply steeped in the philosophy and symbolism of Persian love mysticism. This innovative volume discusses the aesthetic theories and mystical philosophy of the classical Persian love-lyric (ghazal) as particularly exemplified by Hafiz (who, along with Rumi and Sa'di, is Persia's most celebrated poet). For the first time in western literature, Hafiz's rhetoric of romance is situated within the broader context of what scholars refer to as 'Love Theory' in Arabic and Persian poetry in particular and Islamic literature more generally. Contributors from both the West and Iran conduct a major investigation of the love lyrics of Hafiz and of what they signified to that high culture and civilization which was devoted to the School of Love in medieval Persia. The volume will have strong appeal to scholars of the Middle East, medieval Islamic literature, and the history and culture of Iran.
A Millennium of Classical Persian Poetry
Author: Wheeler McIntosh ThackstonPublisher: Ibex Publishers, Inc.
ISBN: 0936347503
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
"A Millennium Of Classical Persian Poetry" is a guide to the reading & understanding of Persian poetry from the tenth to the twentieth century.
Persian Literature and Modernity
Author: Hamid Rezaei YazdiPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429999615
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
Persian Literature and Modernity recasts the history of modern literature in Iran by elucidating the bonds between the classical tradition and modernity and exploring textual, generic and discursive formations through heterodoxical investigations. This is first done through the rehabilitation of concepts embedded in tradition, including the munāzirah (debate), Ahrīman (the demonic), tajarrud (radical aloneness) and nāriz̤āyatī (discontent). Following this are broader structural and processual treatments, including the emergence of the genre of the social novel, the international dimension of Persian and Persianate canon formation, and the development of salvage ethnography and anthropological discourse in Iran. Covering literary experiments from the twelfth to the twentieth centuries, the chapters in this volume make a case for stepping outside the bounds of orthodox literary scholarship in Iranian studies with its associated political and orientalist determinants in order to provide a more nuanced conception of literary modernity in Iran. Offering an alternative reading of modernity in Persian literature, this book is an invaluable resource for scholars and students interested in the history of modern Iran and Persian Literature.
Classical Persian Literature
Author: Arthur John ArberryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Persian literature
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
Beholding Beauty
Author: Domenico IngenitoPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004435905
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 717
Book Description
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.