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" Hafiz and his contemporaries : "
Dominic Parviz Brookshaw.
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1089397
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bc10666
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English
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Brookshaw, Dominic Parviz
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Hafiz and his contemporaries : : poetry, performance and patronage in fourteenth century Iran /\ Dominic Parviz Brookshaw.
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London, UK ;New York, NY :: I.B. Tauris,, 2019.
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, ©2019
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1 online resource
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9781786725882
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: 1786725886
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: 9781786735881
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: 1786735881
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9781848851443
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; A note on transliteration, dates and abbreviations; A glossary of literaryterms; Map; Chronologicallist of poets; Introduction; 1 Evocations of Place; 2 Evocations of Performance; 3 Evocations of the Beloved; 4 Allusions to Kings and Heroes; 5 Allusions to Lovers; 6 Allusions to Prophets; By Way of Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index
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"Despite his towering presence in premodern Persian letters, Shams al-Din Muhammad Hafiz of Shiraz (d. 1390) remains an elusive and opaque character for many. In order to look behind the hyperbole that surrounds Hafiz's poetry and penetrate the quasi-hagiographical film that obscures the poet himself, this book attempts a contextualisation of Hafiz that is at once socio-political, historical, and literary. Here, Hafiz's ghazals (short, monorhyme, broadly amorous lyric poems) are read comparatively against similar texts composed by his less-studied rivals in the hyper competitive, imitative, and profoundly intertextual environment of fourteenth-century Shiraz. By bringing Hafiz's lyric poetry into productive, detailed dialogue with that of the counterhegemonic satirist, 'Ubayd Zakani (d. 1371), and the marginalised Jahan-Malik Khatun (d. after 1391; the most prolific female poet of premodern Iran), our received understanding of this most iconic of stages in the development of the Persian ghazal is disrupted, and new avenues for literary exploration open up. Looking beyond the particular milieu of Shiraz, this study re-assesses Hafiz's place in the Persian poetic canon through reading his poems alongside those produced by professional poets in other major centres of Persian literary activity who enjoyed comparable fame in the fourteenth century. Recognising the aesthetic achievements of his contemporaries does not diminish the splendour of Hafiz's, rather it forces us to accept that Hafiz was but one member of a band of poets who jostled for the limelight in competing, often intersecting, patronage and reception networks that facilitated intense cultural exchange between the cities of post-Mongol Iran and Iraq. Hafiz's ghazals, characterised as they are by conscious and deliberate hybridity, ambiguity, and polysemy, are products of a creative mind bent on experimenting with genre. While in no way seeking to deny the mystical stratum of the Persian ghazal in its fourteenth-century manifestation, this study emphasises the courtly and profane dimensions of the form, and regards Hafiz through a sober lens with keen attention to his dynamic role at the heart of a vibrant poetic community that was at once both fiercely local and boldly cosmopolitan."--
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Ḥāfiẓ,active 14th century-- Criticism and interpretation.
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Jahān Malik Khātūn,active 14th century-- Criticism and interpretation.
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ʻUbayd Zākānī, Niẓām al-Dīn,-approximately 1370-- Criticism and interpretation.
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Ḥāfiẓ,active 14th century.
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Jahān Malik Khātūn,active 14th century.
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ʻUbayd Zākānī, Niẓām al-Dīn,-approximately 1370.
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Ghazals, Persian-- History and criticism.
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Persian poetry-- 747-1500-- History and criticism.
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Qasidas, Persian-- History and criticism.
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Literary studies: poetry poets.
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LITERARY CRITICISM-- Middle Eastern.
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Ghazals, Persian.
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Persian poetry.
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Qasidas, Persian.
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| Dewey Classification
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891/.5511
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PK6465.B76 2019
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