Reorientations / Arabic and Persian Poetry
Title | Reorientations / Arabic and Persian Poetry PDF eBook |
Author | Suzanne Pinckney Stetkevych |
Publisher | Indiana University Press |
Pages | 296 |
Release | 1994-03-22 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780253354938 |
Employing contemporary literary theory, eight members of the "Chicago school" of Arabic and Persian literature reorient the critical approach to classical Middle Eastern literature. The authors analyze a broad spectrum of poetry, ranging from the pre-Islamic ode of the sixth century to seventeenth-century Persian Safavid Moghul verse. Among issues considered are the ritual and sacrificial aspects of literature, the transition from orality to literacy, the iconographical and mythic dimensions of philology, and imitation as a form of creation. The inclusion of contemporary translations of all the poems discussed is an important feature for students of Middle Eastern literature and comparative poetics.
Structure and Meaning in Medieval Arabic and Persian Lyric Poetry
Title | Structure and Meaning in Medieval Arabic and Persian Lyric Poetry PDF eBook |
Author | Julie Meisami |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 618 |
Release | 2003-09-02 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1135790108 |
This is the first comprehensive and comparative study of compositional and stylistic techniques in medieval Arabic and Persian lyric poetry. Ranging over some seven countries, it deals with works by over thirty poets in the Islamic world from Spain to present-day Afghanistan, and examines how this rich poetic traditions exhibits both continuity and development in the use of a wide variety of compositional strategies. Discussing such topics as principles of structural organisation, the use of rhetorical figures, metaphor and images, and providing detailed analyses of a large number of poetic texts, it shows how structural and semantic features interacted to bring coherence and meaning to the individual poem. It also examines works by the indigenous critics of poetry in both Arabic and Persian, and demonstrates the critics' awareness of, and interest in, the techniques which poets employed to construct poems which were both eloquent and meaningful. Comparisons are also made with classical and medieval poetics in the west. The book will be of interest not merely to specialists in the relevant fields, but also to all those interested in pre-modern poetry and poetics.
Arabic and Persian Poems
Title | Arabic and Persian Poems PDF eBook |
Author | Omar S. Pound |
Publisher | Three Continents |
Pages | 136 |
Release | 1986 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN |
Arabic & Persian Poems in English
Title | Arabic & Persian Poems in English PDF eBook |
Author | Omar S. Pound |
Publisher | |
Pages | 88 |
Release | 1970 |
Genre | Arabic poetry |
ISBN |
The Influence of Arabic Poetry on the Development of Persian Poetry
Title | The Influence of Arabic Poetry on the Development of Persian Poetry PDF eBook |
Author | ʻUmaru bin Muḥammadu Dāʼūd Poṭah |
Publisher | |
Pages | 252 |
Release | 1934 |
Genre | Arabic poetry |
ISBN |
The Influence of Arabic Poetry on the Development of Persian Poetry
Title | The Influence of Arabic Poetry on the Development of Persian Poetry PDF eBook |
Author | Umar Muhammad Daudpota |
Publisher | |
Pages | 202 |
Release | 1934 |
Genre | Arabic poetry |
ISBN |
Arabic Literary Thresholds
Title | Arabic Literary Thresholds PDF eBook |
Author | Muhsin Al-Musawi |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 357 |
Release | 2009-06-15 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 9047430336 |
This volume, dedicated to Jaroslav Stetkevych, includes a number of original contributions that signify a rhetorical shift in the social sciences and Arabic studies. The articles and essays deal with Orientalism, classical Arabic tradition, Andalusian poetry, Francophone literature, translation, architecture and poetry, comparative studies, and Sufism. Literary production is studied in its own terms to situate these literary concerns in the mainstream of cultural studies. The outcome is a solid and highly sophisticated scholarship that makes this book one of the most needed among scholars and students of comparative literature, Arabic poetics and politics, Orientalism, Afro-Asian studies, East/West encounters and translation.