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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.

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Many have forgotten the role of the gosan in oral epic literature. To believe that Persian poetics is only retelling what they learned in a book is to hold that old accentual meter is really newly borrowed from Arabic, which is hardly right. Dr. Davidson has well explained this in her revised book. -- Richard N. Frye, Harvard University

Comparative Literature and Classical Persian

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      Publisher: Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies
      Publication Date: 15/07/2013
      ISBN13: 9780674073203, 978-0674073203
      ISBN10: 0674073207
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      Literary studies: ancient, classical Literary studies: poetry and poets

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      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.

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      Many have forgotten the role of the gosan in oral epic literature. To believe that Persian poetics is only retelling what they learned in a book is to hold that old accentual meter is really newly borrowed from Arabic, which is hardly right. Dr. Davidson has well explained this in her revised book. -- Richard N. Frye, Harvard University

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