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Metaphor and imagery in Persian poetry

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ISBN	900421125X (hbk.)
ISBN	9789004211254 (hbk.)
Title	Metaphor and imagery in Persian poetry / edited by Ali Asghar Seyed-Gohrab
Publisher	Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2012
Physical desc.	[ix], 281 p. ; ill. ; 25 cm.
Series	Iran studies 6
Bibliography etc.	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	Introduction: Persian rhetorical figures / A.A. Seyed-Gohrab -- Naṣīr al-Dīn Ṭūsī and poetic imagination in the Arabic and Persian philosophical tradition / J. Landau -- Kāshifī's powerful metaphor: the energising trope / Ch. van Ruymbeke -- Waxing eloquent: the masterful variations on candle metaphors in the poetry of Ḥāfiẓ and his predecessors / A.A. Seyed-Gohrab -- Love and the metaphors of wine and drunkenness in Persian Sufi poetry / N. Pourjavady -- One chaste Muslim maiden and a Persian in a pear tree: analogues of Boccaccio and Chaucer in four earlier Arabic and Persian tales / F.D. Lewis -- Translating Persian metaphors into English / A. Sedighi -- The ring as a token in the Barzū-nāma: on the importance of lineage and origin / G.R. van den Berg -- The function of the catalogue of poets in Persian poetry / S. Sharma -- The origins of the Munāẓarā genre in New Persian literature / F. Abdullaeva.
Subject	Persian poetry -- History and criticism
	Persian poetry -- Themes, motives
	Persian language -- Figures of speech
	Metaphor in literature
	Poetics -- History
Added name(s)	Seyed-Gohrab, A. A. (Ali Asghar) 1968- ed.

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