"Sponsored by The Persian Heritage Foundation & The Ehsan Yarshater Center for Iranian Studies, Columbia University." Includes bibliographical references (pages 545-629) and index.
Contents:
Contributors -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Secular Didactic Mathnavis / J. T. P. de Bruijn -- Chapter 2. Romantic Mathnavis (Pre-Safavid Period)/ J. T. P. de Bruijn -- Chapter 3. Nezami's Romantic Poems and their Cultural afterlife: Reception and Responses / Paola Orsatti -- Chapter 4. Khosrow and Shirin and the Poems of Love and Adventure /Paola Orsatti -- Chapter 5. Leyli and Majnun / Paola Orsatti -- Chapter 6. Nezami's Haft Peykar and its Tradition in Persian Literature / Paola Orsatti -- Chapter 7. The Alexander Legend in Persian Literature / Mario Casari.
Summary:
"The third volume in this ground-breaking series, Persian Narrative Poetry in the Classical Era, 800-1500: Romantic and Didactic Genres, introduces masterpieces of Persian literature from these seven centuries to an international audience. In the process, it underlines the remarkable tenacity of their malleable tradition: the perennial dialogue and the interconnectedness which binds together a vast and varied literature composed of many threads, romantic and didactic, in many lands, from Anatolia and Iran to India and Central Asia. In its companion volume, Persian Lyric in the Classical Era, 800-1500, the readers of the series will have already met in passing all the mythical and historical figures who appear with far more aplomb on the stage here, with their lives narrated in detail by poets of different caliber from different perspectives. The first two chapters of this volume recount the literary history of the entire period, focusing on didactic and romantic narratives. The central chapters take a closer look at the towering figure of the poet Nezami Ganjavi. The final chapter takes the reader to a wider landscape tracing the footsteps of Alexander across the globe, offering insights to the cultural preoccupations refracted in so many versions past and present"--Provided by publisher.
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