{"product_id":"comparative-literature-and-classical-persian-poetics-9780674073203","title":"Comparative Literature and Classical Persian","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOlga 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMany have forgotten the role of the \u003ci\u003egosan\u003c\/i\u003e 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","brand":"Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49403554955607,"sku":"9780674073203","price":16.1,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780674073203.jpg?v=1730483815","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/comparative-literature-and-classical-persian-poetics-9780674073203","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}