Structure and Meaning in Medieval Arabic and Persian Lyric Poetry: Orient Pearls

ISBN-13: 9780415616430 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 524 str.

Julie Scott Meisami

Opis

This work is a comparative study of structure and style in medieval Arabic and Persian lyric poetry. It examines a variety of poetic texts from the point of view of structure and the use of rhetorical figures, metaphor and imagery.

Spis treści

1 Introduction 2 Invention 3 Disposition: The parts of the poem 4 Disposition: Larger structures 5 Disposition: The Qas?6 Disposition: Varieties of structure 7 Ornamentation 8 Ornament: Metaphor and imagery 9 Conclusion: The coherence of the poem

O autorze

Julie Scott Meisami, until recently Lecturer in Persian at the Oriental Institute, Oxford University, has published extensively on Arabic and Persian poetry and is the editor of Edebiyat: The Journal for Middle Eastern Literatures.