Reorientations/Arabic and Persian Poetry
Subtitle: Arabic and Persian Poetry
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: February 1994
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780253354938
Subjects: Literary studies: general; Arabic Literature; Indo-Iranian Literature; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Arabic; Indic, East Indo-European & Dravidian Languages; Poetry; African; Arabic poetry; History and criticism; Persian poetry
Description: "Employing contemporary literary theory, eight members of the "Chicago school" of Arabic and Persian literature reorient the critical approach to classical Middle Eastern literature. The authors analyze a broad spectrum of poetry, ranging from the pre-Islamic ode of the sixth century to seventeenth-century Persian Safavid Moghul verse. Among issues considered are the ritual and sacrificial aspects of literature, the transition from orality to literacy, the iconographical and mythic dimensions of philology, and imitation as a form of creation. The inclusion of contemporary translations of all the poems discussed is an important feature for students of Middle Eastern literature and comparative poetics."--BOOK JACKET.