Courtly Riddles: Enigmatic Embellishments in Early Persian Poetry

ISBN-13: 9781557534675 / Angielski

Ali-Asghar Seyed-Gohrab

Opis

This book is the first study of Persian literary riddles to appear in English. It translates and analyses a wide range of complex riddling poems from the tenth to the twelfth centuries, including the masters of the genre. It also analyses the relationship between metaphors and riddles and the genre of literary description.