Structure and meaning in medieval Arabic and Persian poetry [electronic resource] : Orient pearls / Julie Scott Meisami.
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 r...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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London ; New York :
RoutledgeCurzon,
2003.
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| Series: | Culture and civilisation in the Middle East.
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| Summary: | 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. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiii, 507 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0203220552 9780203220559 0203296249 9780203296240 1135790108 9781135790103 1280290404 9781280290404 9786610290406 6610290407 1135790116 9781135790110 |
| Language: | English. |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |