Author: Samuel RousseauPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Persian language
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
The Flowers of Persian Literature
Author: Samuel RousseauPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Persian language
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
The flowers of persian literature, containing extracts from the most celebrated authors, in prose and verse with a translation into english
Author: The flowers of Persian literature: extracts in prose and verse, with a transl. To which is prefixed An essay on the language and literature of Persia. By S. Rousseau
Author: A Specimen of Persian Poetry
Author: ḤāfiẓPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Persian poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
The World of Persian Literary Humanism
Author: Hamid DabashiPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674070615
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 323
Book Description
What does it mean to be human? Humanism has mostly considered this question from a Western perspective. Through a detailed examination of a vast literary tradition, Hamid Dabashi asks that question anew, from a non-European point of view. The answers are fresh, provocative, and deeply transformative. This groundbreaking study of Persian humanism presents the unfolding of a tradition as the creative and subversive subconscious of Islamic civilization. Exploring how 1,400 years of Persian literature have taken up the question of what it means to be human, Dabashi proposes that the literary subconscious of a civilization may also be the undoing of its repressive measures. This could account for the masculinist hostility of the early Arab conquest that accused Persian culture of effeminate delicacy and sexual misconduct, and later of scientific and philosophical inaccuracy. As the designated feminine subconscious of a decidedly masculinist civilization, Persian literary humanism speaks from a hidden and defiant vantage point-and this is what inclines it toward creative subversion. Arising neither despite nor because of Islam, Persian literary humanism was the artistic manifestation of a cosmopolitan urbanism that emerged in the aftermath of the seventh-century Muslim conquest. Removed from the language of scripture and scholasticism, Persian literary humanism occupies a distinct universe of moral obligations in which "a judicious lie," as the thirteenth-century poet Sheykh Mosleh al-Din Sa'di writes, "is better than a seditious truth."
Persian Poetry for English Readers
Author: Samuel RobinsonPublisher:
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Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 676
Book Description
The Flower of Persian Literatur Containing Extracts from the Most Celebrated Authors, in Prose and Verse, with a Translation Into English
Author: Samuel RousseauPersian Poetry for English Readers. Being Specimens of Six of the Greatest Classical Poets of Persia: Ferdusī, Nizāmī, Sādi, Jelāl-ad-Dīn Rūmī, Hāfiz, and Jāmī, with Biographical Notices and Notes
Author: Samuel RobinsonPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385346819
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 666
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.
Nezami Ganjavi and Classical Persian Literature
Author: Kamran TalattofPublisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030979903
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 291
Book Description
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.
General Introduction to Persian Literature
Author: J.T.P. BruijnPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 0857736507
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
Persian literature is the jewel in the crown of Persian culture. It has profoundly influenced the literatures of Ottoman Turkey, Muslim India and Turkic Central Asia and been a source of inspiration for Goethe, Emerson, Matthew Arnold and Jorge Luis Borges among others. Yet Persian literature has never received the attention it truly deserves."A History of Persian Literature" answers this need and offers a new, comprehensive and detailed history of its subject. This 18-volume, authoritative survey reflects the stature and significance of Persian literature as the single most important accomplishment of the Iranian experience. It includes extensive, revealing examples with contributions by prominent scholars who bring a fresh critical approach to bear on this important topic.The first volume offers an indispensable entree to Persian literature's long and rich history, examining themes and subjects that are common to many fields of Persian literary study. This invaluable introduction to the subject heralds a definitive and ground-breaking new series.