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What is Metaphor and Imagery in Persian Poetry about?
This volume is a collection of essays on classical Persian literature, focusing on Persian rhetorical devices, especially imagery and metaphors. The various contributions discuss the origin and the development of debate poetry, the transmission of Persian and Arabic tales to the works of Europeans medieval authors such as Boccaccio and Chaucer, but also the development of Aristotelian poetics and epistemology in Persian philosophical tradition. Furthermore, the baroque style of the Shiʿite autho
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- Author
- Ali Asghar Seyed-Gohrab, (Ed.)
- Publisher
- Koninklijke Brill N.V.
- Published
- 2011
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9789004217645
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Science, History, Short Stories
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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