Structure and Meaning in Medieval Arabic and Persian Lyric Poetry

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Bibliographic Data

ID19926544
AuthorsJulie Scott Meisami (corresponding author), Julie Meisami
Year2003
Pages528
Publication date2003-09-02
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueStructure and Meaning in Medieval Arabic and Persian Lyric Poetry (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.4324/9780203220559
OpenAlexW4236799090
ISBN9780203220559
Open LibraryOL36239288M
LanguageEN
Citations received20

This is the first comprehensive and comparative study of compositional and stylistic techniques in medieval Arabic and Persian lyric poetry. Ranging over some seven countries, it deals with works by over thirty poets in the Islamic world from Spain to present-day Afghanistan, and examines how this rich poetic traditions exhibits both continuity and development in the use of a wide variety of compositional strategies. Discussing such topics as principles of structural organisation, the use of rhetorical figures, metaphor and images, and providing detailed analyses of a large number of poetic texts, it shows how structural and semantic features interacted to bring coherence and meaning to the individual poem. It also examines works by the indigenous critics of poetry in both Arabic and Persian, and demonstrates the critics' awareness of, and interest in, the techniques which poets employed to construct poems which were both eloquent and meaningful. Comparisons are also made with classical and medieval poetics in the west. The book will be of interest not merely to specialists in the relevant fields, but also to all those interested in pre-modern poetry and poetics

Arabic · Art · Epistemology · Linguistics · Literature · Meaning (existential) · Persian · Poetry · Families in Therapy and Culture · Historical and Linguistic Studies · History · Islamic Studies and History · Philosophy · 18.66 Iranian languages · 18.72 classical Arabic language and literature · Arabic poetry · Arabic poetry, history and criticism · Arabisch · Dichtkunst · General · History and criticism · Literary · Literary Criticism · Lyric poetry · Lyriek · Persian poetry · Persian poetry, history and criticism · Perzisch · Poésie arabe · Poésie persane · Special Interest · Travel

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