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Author | : Riccardo Zipoli |
Publisher | : Leiden University Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES |
ISBN | : 9789087282271 |
Poetry expressing criticism of social, political and cultural life is a vital integral part of Persian literary history. Its principal genres - invective, satire and burlesque - have been very popular with authors in every age. Despite the rich uninterrupted tradition, such texts have been little studied and rarely translated. Their irreverent tones range from subtle irony to crude direct insults, at times involving the use of outrageous and obscene terms. This anthology includes both major and minor poets from the origins of Persian poetry (10th century) up to the age of Jâmi (15th century), traditionally considered the last great classical Persian poet. In addition to their historical and linguistic interest, many of these poems deserve to be read for their technical and aesthetic accomplishments, setting them among the masterpieces of Persian literature.
Author | : Alexander Jabbari |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 265 |
Release | : 2023-04-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1009320866 |
Traces the emergence of literary history, showing how Iranians and South Asians drew from their shared heritage to produce a 'Persianate modernity'.
Author | : Riccardo Zipoli |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9789087282974 |
Poetry expressing criticism of social, political and cultural life is a vital integral part of Persian literary history. Its principal genres - invective, satire and burlesque - have been very popular with authors in every age. Despite the rich uninterrupted tradition, such texts have been little studied and rarely translated. Their irreverent tones range from subtle irony to crude direct insults, at times involving the use of outrageous and obscene terms. This anthology includes both major and minor poets from the origins of Persian poetry (10th century) up to the age of Jami (15th century), traditionally considered the last great classical Persian poet.
Author | : Homa Katouzian |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 309 |
Release | : 2023-12-14 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0755652134 |
Satire, irony and humour have long been features of Persian literature's rich tradition, taking various forms from the coarse and obscene to the subtle and refined. Humour in Iran is a close and comprehensive study of satire and humour in verse as well as prose over the eleven-hundred years since the emergence of classical Persian literature. Combining Persian original texts with their English translations, it covers a range of texts and authors, from the lampoon in Ferdowsi's great epic of the ancient kings in the tenth century, through such master satirists as Obeyd Zakani, Sa'di, Rumi, Khayyam, Hafiz, Anvari, Sana'i, Khaqani, Suzani, Qa'ani, Yaghma, and so on. The book also includes twentieth century authors such as Iraj, Dehkhoda, Bahar, Eshqi, Aref, Hedayat, Jamalzadeh, Al-e Ahmad and more. A must read for scholars and students of humour and satire as well as Persian literature and Middle Eastern studies, and it will also appeal to general readers interested in ribald humour and satire.
Author | : James Bassett |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 374 |
Release | : 1890 |
Genre | : Missions |
ISBN | : |
"The object of this volume is to give the principal facts in the founding and fortunes of the Eastern Persia Mission of the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions in the United States"--Page 7.
Author | : Kamran Talattof |
Publisher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 291 |
Release | : 2022-09-28 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 3030979903 |
This book offers new insights into the twelfth-century Persian poet Nezami Ganjavi. Challenging the dominant interpretation of Nezami’s poetry as the product of mysticism or Islam, this book explores Nezami’s literary techniques such as his pictorial allegory and his profound conceptualization of poetry, rhetoric, and eloquence. It employs several theoretical and methodological approaches to clarify the nature of his artistic approach to poetry. Chapters explore Nezami’s understanding of rhetoric and literature as Sakhon, his interest in literary genres, the diversity of themes explored in his Five Treasures, the sources of Nezami’s creativity, and his literary devices. Exploring themes such as love, religion, science, wine, gender, and philosophy, this study compares Nezami’s works to other giants of Persian poetry such as Ferdowsi, Jami, Rudaki, and others. The book argues that Nezami’s main concern was to weave poetry rather than to promote any specific ideology.
Author | : Vincent Sheean |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 380 |
Release | : 1927 |
Genre | : Eastern Question (central Asia) |
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Author | : Homa Katouzian |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 2022-07-08 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1000595854 |
Compiled by experts on the works of each individual poet, this book covers the poetry and poets of the Constitutional Revolution of Iran. Following a two-pronged approach, this volume studies both those who were influenced by the Constitutional Revolution in their works and those who addressed the Revolution with their work, influencing it directly. Through the analysis of their works, this volume explores influential poets and writers from the period, including Iraj, Vaziri, Afrāshteh, Yazdi, Bahār and ‘Eshqi. It covers female poets who are often overlooked, as well as the major satirical poets whose work educated and entertained the readers and criticized socio-political events. Analysing the mainstream and marginal poets, this volume argues the margins initiated the evolution of Persian poetry. As Persian poetry and its multifunctional legacy became the standard-bearer of the Constitutional movement, this volume is an important contribution to an understanding of Iran. This volume will be of interest to historians of the Constitutional Revolution and Iranian poetry, as well as to students and scholars of comparative revolutions. It is suitable for both undergraduate and graduate courses on Iranian history, Middle Eastern history and comparative studies of literature and revolution.
Author | : Domenico Ingenito |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 717 |
Release | : 2020-12-29 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9004435905 |
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.
Author | : Daniel Kunth |
Publisher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 173 |
Release | : |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 303149024X |