Metaphor and Imagery in Persian Poetry.
This volume contains ten chapters on Persian metaphors, tropes, rhetorical figures, and poetic forms and genres, by some of the world's foremost scholars in the field of classical Persian poetry.
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Leiden :
BRILL,
2011.
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| Series: | Iran studies,
v. 6 |
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Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgements; Introduction: Persian Rhetorical Figures; Nasir al-Din Tusi and Poetic Imagination in the Arabic and Persian Philosophical Tradition; Kashifi's Powerful Metaphor: The Energising Trope; Waxing Eloquent: The Masterful Variations on Candle Metaphors in the Poetry of Hafiz and his Predecessors; Love and the Metaphors of Wine and Drunkenness in Persian Sufi Poetry; One Chaste Muslim Maiden and a Persian in a Pear Tree: Analogues of Boccaccio and Chaucer in Four Earlier Arabic and Persian Tales; Translating Persian Metaphors into English.
- The Ring as a Token in the Barzu-nama: On the Importance of Lineage and OriginThe Function of the Catalogue of Poets in Persian Poetry; The Origins of the Munazara Genre in New Persian Literature; Index.