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 medieval authors such as Boccaccio and Chaucer, but also the development of Aristotelian poetics and epistemology in Persian philosophical tradition. Furthermore, the baroque style of the Shiʿite author Ḥusayn Vāʾiẓ Kāshifī, the use of wine metaphors by mystics such as Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī, Ḥāfiẓ’s original use of candle metaphors, the translation of Khayyām’s metaphors into English, and the importance of a single metaphor in the epic Barzū-nāma are discussed.
Contributors include: F. Abdullaeva, G.R. van den Berg, J. Landau, F.D. Lewis, N. Pourjavady, Ch. van Ruymbeke, A. Sedighi and S. Sharma
Author(s): Ali Asghar Seyed-Gohrab, (Ed.)
Series: Iran Studies
Publisher: Brill
Year: 2011
Language: English
Pages: 282
Tags: Iranian, Iran, Persian, Farsi, Literature, History, Literary
Contents......Page 7
Acknowledgements......Page 9
Introduction: Persian Rhetorical Figures......Page 11
Nasīr al-Dīn Tūsī and Poetic Imagination in the Arabic and Persian Philosophical Tradition......Page 25
Kāshifī’s Powerful Metaphor: The Energising Trope......Page 77
Waxing Eloquent: The Masterful Variations on Candle Metaphors in the Poetry of Hāfiz and his Predecessors......Page 91
Love and the Metaphors of Wine and Drunkenness in Persian Sufi Poetry......Page 135
One Chaste Muslim Maiden and a Persian in a Pear Tree: Analogues of Boccaccio and Chaucer in Four Earlier Arabic and Persian Tales......Page 147
Translating Persian Metaphors into English......Page 215
The Ring as a Token in the Barzū-nāma: On the Importance of Lineage and Origin......Page 225
The Function of the Catalogue of Poets in Persian Poetry......Page 241
The Origins of the Munāzara Genre in New Persian Literature......Page 259
Index......Page 285
