Persian Narrative Poetry in the Classical Era, 800-1500: Romantic and Didactic Genres (eBook, ePUB)

A History of Persian Literature, Vol III
Redaktion: Ashtiany, Mohsen

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The third volume in this ground-breaking series, Persian Narrative Poetry in the Classical Era, 800-1500: Romantic and Didactic Genres, introduces masterpieces of Persian literature from these seven centuries to an international audience. In the process, it underlines the remarkable tenacity of their malleable tradition: the perennial dialogue and the interconnectedness which binds together a vast and varied literature composed of many threads, romantic and didactic, in many lands, from Anatolia and Iran to India and Central Asia. In its companion volume, Persian Lyric in the Classical Era, 800-1500, the readers of the series will have already met in passing all the mythical and historical figures who appear with far more aplomb on the stage here, with their lives narrated in detail by poets of different caliber from different perspectives. The first two chapters of this volume recount the literary history of the entire period, focusing on didactic and romantic narratives. The central chapters take a closer look at the towering figure of the poet Nezâmi Ganjavi. The final chapter takes the reader to a wider landscape tracing the footsteps of Alexander across the globe, offering insights to the cultural preoccupations refracted in so many versions past and present.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 656
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Januar 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781786726582
• Artikelnr.: 66051059

Autorenporträt

Mohsen Ashtiany is Associate Research Scholar, Ehsan Yarshater Center for Iranian Studies. He has taught Persian literature and history at Oxford University, University of Manchester and the University of California at Los Angeles and has held Visiting Fellowships at Harvard and Princeton. He is a member of the Editorial Board of A History of Persian Literature

Inhaltsangabe

Contributors Introduction Chapter 1: Secular Didactic Mathnavis (J.T.P. de Bruijn)
Didacticism in Persian Literature
Didacticism in Early Mathnavis
The Emergence of the Didactic Mathnavi
The Aftermath of Sana'i's Didactic Mathnavis
In the Footsteps of Nezami Ganjavi
Conclusion Chapter 2: Romantic Mathnavis (Pre
Safavid Period) (J.T.P. de Bruijn)
Love Stories in Romantic Mathnavis
Early Romantic Poems Chapter 3: Nezami's Romantic Poems and their Cultural Afterlife: Reception and Responses (Paola Orsatti)
Overview and Critical Assessment of the Poems
Types of Intertextuality in the Tradition of Response to Nezami's Poems
Narrative Poetry: Some Critical Issues
Problems of Research on the Tradition of Response to Nezami's Poems Chapter 4: Khosrow and Shirin and the Poems Of Love and Adventure (Paola Orsatti)
Nezami's Khosrow va Shirin
Responses to Nezami's Poem
The Poems of Love and Adventure and their Relationship to Nezami's Poem
Allegory in Narratives of Love Chapter 5: Leyli and Majnun (Paola Orsatti)
The Legend of Majnun
Majnun's Concept of Love
Nezami's Poem Leyli va Majnun
The Poem Majnun va Leyli by Amir Khosrow
Mahzun va Mahbub by Jamali
The Legend of Leyli and Majnun in the Fifteenth Century
Leyli va Majnun by Jami
Other Poems Chapter 6: Nezami's Haft Peykar and its Tradition in Persian Literature (Paola Orsatti)
Nezami's Haft Peykar
The Development of the Bahram Gur Romance Before Nezami
Hasht Behesht by Amir Khosrow
Hatefi's Poem Haft Manzar
Other Poems
The Fortunes of the Saga of Bahram Chapter 7: The Alexander Legend in Persian Literature (Mario Casari)
Alexander the Great in Iran
Alexander amidst Conquest and Mission
Alexander Romances
Alexander's Boundaries: A Conclusion Abbreviations Bibliography Index