Comparative Literature and Classical Persian Poetics - Second Edition

Summary

Olga M. Davidson applies comparative literary approaches to classical Persian traditions of composing and performing poetry and song. She focuses on the eleventh-century CE epic Shahnama and its relationship to other genres embedded in it, including forms of verbal art originally composed without the aid of writing, such as women’s laments.

Product details

• Authors: Olga M. Davidson
• Publisher: Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.07.2013
• EAN: 9780674073203
• ISBN: 978-0-674-07320-3
• No. of pages: 140
• Dimensions: 162 mm x 228 mm x 9 mm
• Weight: 238 g
• Series: Ilex Series; Ilex Foundation; Ilex Series; Hellenic Studies - Ilex (HUP)
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies