Description |
1 online resource (viii, 281 pages) : illustrations. |
Physical Medium |
polychrome |
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text file |
Series |
Iran studies,
1569-7401 ;
v. 6
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Iran studies ; v. 6.
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Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Contents |
Introduction: Persian rhetorical figures / A.A. Seyed-Gohrab -- Naṛīr al-Dīn Ṭūsī and poetic imagination in the Arabic and Persian philosophical tradition / J. Landau -- Kashifi'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.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. |
Summary |
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. |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
Persian poetry -- History and criticism.
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Persian poetry. |
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Imagery (Psychology) in literature.
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Imagery (Psychology) in literature. |
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Metaphor in literature.
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Metaphor in literature. |
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Poetics -- History.
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Poetics. |
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History. |
Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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Added Author |
Seyed-Gohrab, A. A. (Ali Asghar), 1968-
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Other Form: |
Print version: Metaphor and imagery in Persian poetry. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2012 9789004211254 (DLC) 2011034528 (OCoLC)738347707 |
ISBN |
9789004217645 (electronic book) |
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9004217649 (electronic book) |
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9789004211254 |
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900421125X |
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