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Comparative Literature and Classical Persian Poetics: Second Edition
Olga M. Davidson
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Description for Comparative Literature and Classical Persian Poetics: Second Edition
Paperback. Olga M. Davidson applies comparative literary approaches to classical Persian traditions of composing and performing poetry and song. She focuses on the eleventh-century ce epic Shahnama and its relationship to other genres embedded in it, including forms of verbal art originally composed without the aid of writing, such as women's laments. Series: Ilex Series. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: 2BXF; DSBB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 162 x 9. Weight in Grams: 238.
Comparative Literature and Classical Persian Poetics applies comparative literary approaches to classical Persian traditions of composing and performing poetry and song. Olga M. Davidson focuses on epic, especially the classical epic Shāhnāma, composed in the early eleventh century CE by the poet Ferdowsi, and on the relationship of this epic to other genres that are found embedded in it. Included among these other genres are forms of verbal art that were originally composed without the aid of writing, such as women’s laments. Davidson explores the many ways in which the epic Shāhnāma incorporates oral poetic traditions in general. Surveying the ... Read more
Comparative Literature and Classical Persian Poetics applies comparative literary approaches to classical Persian traditions of composing and performing poetry and song. Olga M. Davidson focuses on epic, especially the classical epic Shāhnāma, composed in the early eleventh century CE by the poet Ferdowsi, and on the relationship of this epic to other genres that are found embedded in it. Included among these other genres are forms of verbal art that were originally composed without the aid of writing, such as women’s laments. Davidson explores the many ways in which the epic Shāhnāma incorporates oral poetic traditions in general. Surveying the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies United States
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
Series
Ilex Series
Number of Pages
140
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780674073203
SKU
V9780674073203
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About Olga M. Davidson
Olga M. Davidson is a Faculty Fellow at the Institute for the Study of Muslim Societies and Civilizations at Boston University.
Reviews for Comparative Literature and Classical Persian Poetics: Second Edition
Many have forgotten the role of the gosan in oral epic literature. To believe that Persian poetics is only retelling what they learned in a book is to hold that old accentual meter is really newly borrowed from Arabic, which is hardly right. Dr. Davidson has well explained this in her revised book.
Richard N. Frye, Harvard University
Richard N. Frye, Harvard University