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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Persian poetry"”.
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Recovering an archive of women’s voices : Durga Prasad Nadir’s "Tażkirāt ul-Nissāy-e Nādrī"
… to engage with women authors of Urdu and Persian poetry over the ages. The text was published between 1876 and 1884 in Delhi, India, and collates biographical information on women poets from India and Iran along with samples of their poetry. In this report, I argue that Nadir’s tażkirah is …
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Becoming Persian Music: A Poststructuralist Approach to Composition
… compositional methodologies grounded in Persian musical and linguistic traditions. It undertakes this inquiry within the encompassing ambit of an interdisciplinary framework, intertwining (ethno)musicology, conceptual history, music theory, sociopolitical thought, semiotics, linguistics, …
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The Political Aesthetic of the Medieval Persian Prison Poem, 1100-1200
The Political Aesthetic of the Medieval Persian Prison Poem, 1100-1200 traces the dissemination of the medieval Persian prison poem (habsiyyat) from South Asia to the Caucasus in the context of the contemporaneous developments in literary and political theory that shaped this genre. Varying …
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Immortal tulips
… of these emotions through metaphors. I use Persian poetry as a bridge between abstract emotions and visual language, and I borrow the tulip from that poetry as my predominant motif. All the elements of "Immortal Tulips" are metaphors for the current conditions of oppression and murder of …
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Poetry and Poetics: the Sufi Eye and the Neoplatonic Vision in Jāmī’s Salāmān u Absāl
… (d. 1492), the “seal of the poets” of classical Persian literature. It is a long, mystically and philosophically complex, narrative. Despite its importance, the poem’s challenging philosophical material and difficult themes (including incest) led to its neglect by the intelligentsia of the …
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Bunting in Persia: A Post-War Poetics of Simultaneity
… poetics primarily through his translations from Persian, which facilitated the development of what I call his poetics of simultaneity. My first chapter examines Bunting’s early translational praxis by reading his first translation from Manūchehrī Dāmghānī (c. 11th) against another one from the …