Metaphor and imagery in Persian poetry / / editor, Ali-Asghar Seyed-Gohrab.
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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| Superior document: | Iran studies, v. 6 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2012. |
| Year of Publication: | 2012 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Iran studies ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (291 pages) :; illustrations |
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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.