Persian Literary Devices: Eight Essays

2024
ISBN: 978-981-97-2941-8
Verlag: Springer Nature Singapore

Buch, Englisch, 193 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 494 g

Thisvolume offers a glimpse into the rich tradition of literary devices in Persian language and literature. It establishes an incontrovertible connection between literary devices - figurative language, rhetoric, and so on - and pedagogy and poetics in both written and oral expression. The essays offer a detailed and thorough overview of some of these literary devices and their dynamics, which have helped make the Persian literary tradition a force to reckon with. The essays also carve out a space dedicated to colloquialisms and idioms, as they are interwoven into the fabric of Persian culture— within the larger field of rhetoric. These devices are fostered and furthered in their potency, both culturally and linguistically, by the poets, writers, and rhetoricians who utilize them. The essays highlight a culture and history in texts and oral history that further speak to a culturally tailored complexity as per figurative language, idioms, colloquialisms, and therhetoric they help found and/or re-define.  These discussions and analyses further facilitate an understanding of the epistemological and cultural meaning of some of the constituents of what is otherwise a Persian identity. This work is a must-have for scholars and students of Persian, Arabic, Ottoman, and Urdu literature, not to mention Middle Eastern history and cultural poetics enthusiasts.  

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Korangy, Alireza

Shabani-Jadidi, Pouneh

Weitere Mitwirkende

Vatanpour, Azadeh

Nagy, Gregory

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Lyrik und Dichter
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturen sonstiger Sprachräume Iranische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Historische & Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft, Sprachtypologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Foreword.- 2. Ja¯mi¯’s Treatise on Rhyme: An Annotated Translation.- 3.    Sa‘di  and the Others: The Semi-Rhymed Prose, and ‘Inimitable Facility’ Art Forms.- 4. Elegant Exordium and Sublime Epilogue: On Two Essential Features of the Panegyric odes as presented in Va?Va?’s ?ada?iq al-Si?r.- 5. Poetic tropes for the writing, delivery, and reading of letters exchanged between dramatis personae in the Shahnama of Ferdowsi.- 6. Puns and Innuendos in Early Iranian Drama.- 7. Reading Forugh Farrokhzad’s ‘Panjareh’ (The Window) Poetically.- 8. Pastoral Imagery in the Poetry of Nima Yushij.- 9. Deconstructing Imitation in Persian Return School: A Dialogic Approach.

Über Autor(innen)

Alireza Korangy received his PhD from the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University. His field of research is classical Persian and Arabic philology with a special emphasis on poetics, rhetoric, folklore and linguistics. 

Pouneh Shabani-Jadidi is a literary translator and Instructional Professor of Persian at the University of Chicago. She is the author of  (Leiden University Press 2014) and  (VDM Verlag 2009), and editor or co-editor of several volumes, including  (2018),  (2020),  (2022), (Brill 2024).

Azadeh Vatanpour is a Ph.D.  (ABD) candidate at Emory University. She holds an MA in Ancient Iranian Culture and Languages from Shiraz University, an MA in Folk Studies, and an MA in Religious Studies from Western Kentucky University. As a scholar of religion and minority studies, her research focuses on ethno-religious minority groups in the Middle East, particularly among the Yarsan community. Vatanpour is currently working on with Dr. Alireza Korangy, delving into the extensive repertoire of literature written in the Gurani language by various ethno-religious groups residing in the Zagros region. She is the Director of the Program of Persian Studies at University of Austin.