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Metaphor and imagery in Persian poetry

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This volume is a collection of essays on classical Persian literature, focusing on Persian rhetorical devices, especially imagery and metaphors. The various contributions discuss the origin and the development of debate poetry, the transmission of Persian and Arabic tales to the works of Europeans medieval authors such as Boccaccio and Chaucer, but also the development of Aristotelian poetics and epistemology in Persian philosophical tradition. Furthermore, the baroque style of the Shiʿite author Ḥusayn Vāʾiẓ Kāshifī, the use of wine metaphors by mystics such as Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī, Ḥāfiẓ’s original use of candle metaphors, the translation of Khayyām’s metaphors into English, and the importance of a single metaphor in the epic Barzū-nāma are discussed. Contributors include: F. Abdullaeva, G.R. van den Berg, J. Landau, F.D. Lewis, N. Pourjavady, Ch. van Ruymbeke, A. Sedighi and S. Sharma

Title Metaphor and imagery in Persian poetry / editor, Ali-Asghar Seyed-Gohrab.
Publisher Leiden
Boston : Brill
Creation Date 2012
Notes Includes bibliographical references and index.
English
Content Preliminary Material -- Introduction: Persian Rhetorical Figures / A.A. Seyed-Gohrab -- Naṣīr al-Dīn Ṭūsī and Poetic Imagination in the Arabic and Persian Philosophical Tradition / J. Landau -- Kāshifī’s Powerful Metaphor: The Energising Trope / Ch. van Ruymbeke -- Waxing Eloquent: The Masterful Variations on Candle Metaphors in the Poetry of Ḥāfiẓ and his Predecessors / A.A. Seyed-Gohrab -- Love and the Metaphors of Wine and Drunkenness in Persian Sufi Poetry / N. Pourjavady -- One Chaste Muslim Maiden and a Persian in a Pear Tree: Analogues of Boccaccio and Chaucer in Four Earlier Arabic and Persian Tales / F.D. Lewis -- Translating Persian Metaphors into English / A. Sedighi -- The Ring as a Token in the Barzū-nāma: On the Importance of Lineage and Origin / G.R. van den Berg -- The Function of the Catalogue of Poets in Persian Poetry / S. Sharma -- The Origins of the MunāẒara Genre in New Persian Literature / F. Abdullaeva -- Index.
Series Iran studies, 1569-7401
v. 6
Extent 1 online resource (291 pages) : illustrations
Language English
National Library system number 997010706029705171
MARC RECORDS
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