Metaphor and imagery in Persian poetry /

Metaphor and imagery in Persian poetry /

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 m...

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Other Authors: Seyed-Gohrab, A. A. 1968-

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2012.

Series: Iran Studies 6.
Middle East and Islamic Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2012, ISBN: 9789004223295.

Subjects:

Persian poetry > History and criticism.
Imagery (Psychology) in literature.
Metaphor in literature.
Poetics > History.
LITERARY CRITICISM > General.

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Call Number: PK6420.I43 M48 2012

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Table of Contents:
  • 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.