Routledge handbook of ancient, classical and late classical Persian literature / edited by Kamran Talattof.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Talattof, Kamran, editor.

Series:

Routledge handbooks

Routledge handbooks.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Persian literature--History and criticism.

Persian literature.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 580 pages) : illustrations.

Other Title:

Handbook of ancient, classical and late classical Persian literature

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2023.

Biography/History:

Kamran Talattof is Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali Chair in Persian and Iranian Studies and the Founding Chair of the Roshan Graduate Interdisciplinary Program in Persian and Iranian Studies at the University of Arizona, USA.

Summary:

"Routledge Handbook of Ancient, Classical, and Late Classical Persian Literature contains scholarly essays and sample texts related to Persian literature from 650BCE through the sixteenth century CE. It includes analyses of some seminal ancient texts and the works of numerous authors of the classical period. The chapters apply a disciplinary or an interdisciplinary approach to the many movements, genres, and works of the long and evolving body of Persian literature produced in the Persianate World. These collections of scholarly essays and samples of Persian literary texts provide facts (general information), instructions (ways to understand, analyze, and appreciate this body of works), and the field's state-of-the-art research (the problematics of the topics) regarding one of the most important and oldest literary traditions in the world. Thus, the handbook's chapters and related texts provide scholars, students, and admirers of Persian poetry and prose with practical and direct access to the intricacies of the Persian literary world through a chronological account of key moments in the formation of this enduring literary tradition. The related handbook (also edited by Kamran Talattof), Routledge Handbook of Post Classical and Contemporary Persian Literature covers Post-Classical and Contemporary Persian Literature from the 17th century to the present"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

A review of the history and categories of Persian literature : an introduction / Kamran Talattaf

Avesta and Avestan literature / Shima Jaqfari-Dehagi

A semantic shift in the official documents of pre-Islamic Iran : the semantics of power to the semantics of poiteness / Narges Nematollahi

Genre in classical Persian poetry / Matthew Thomas Miller

Rudaki : the father of Persian poetry / Sassan Tabatabai

The Shahnameh of Ferdowsi / Olga Davidson

Rōbā'īyat of Omar Khayyām / Juan Cole

Ghazal : form in meaning / Alireza Korangy

Niẓāmi Ganjavī : an innovator of Persian narrative poetry / Ali-Asghar Seyed-Gohrab

Geographical space and historical time layers in Nizam Ganjavi's works / Hamlet Isaxanli

Erotic narratives and ʻAttār's refashioning of the didactic Masnavi / Austin O'Malley

Analysis of the ratio of poetry and Islamic mysticism in the formation of Molavi's personality / Seyed Ali Asghar Mirbagherifard

Poetry and patronage : Prsian literature during the Mongol Empire / Kacey Evilsizor

Sa'di of Shiraz / Kourosh Kamali Sarvestani

Gendering Obeyd : rereading Zakani's sexual satire / Mostafa Abedinifard

Congruity of structure and content in ghazals of Hafiz and their cultural and historical context / Manizheh Abdollahi

Non-ideological or bibliomantic readings of Hafiz's poetry / Saeedeh Shahnahpur

Jami : the seal of the great poets or the emblem of an era? / Kamran Talattof

A lost literacy : reading Tadhkiras of Persian poets in the 21st century / Kevin L. Schwartz

Persian-language anthological manuscripts : typologies and terminologies / Denise-Marie Teece - The grounds of verse : a geopolitical turn in early modern Persian literary criticism / Jane Mikkelson

Persian-language literature in Dagestan : the poetry of Hasan Alqadari / Patimat Alibekova

Nizami Ganjavi and the Georgian literature of 12th-18th centuries / Gaga Lomidze.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 02, 2023).

Other Format:

Print version: Routledge handbook of ancient, classical and late classical Persian literature

ISBN:

9781315124216

1315124211

9781351341745

135134174X

9781351341738

1351341731

9781351341721

1351341723

OCLC:

1369573557

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