Allegorical Gardens in the Persian Poetic Tradition: Nezami, Rumi, Hafez

1985 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 229-260 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julie Scott Meisami
Keyword(s):  
Striking Feature ◽  
Poetic Tradition ◽  
Persian Poetry ◽  
Nature Imagery

A striking feature of medieval Persian poetry is the abundance of nature imagery that permeates every poetic genre, and especially imagery relating to gardens. The royal gardens and parks evoked in the descriptive exordia of the qasīda, the luxuriant gardens of romance that provide settings for tales of love, the spiritual gardens of mystical writings, the flowery haunts of rose and nightingale in the courtly ghazal—all provide eloquent testimony to the importance of the garden in Persian culture.

scholarly journals Prophet Sulaymān in Classical Persian Poetry: Semantics and Structure of the Image

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 398-414
Author(s):  
Anna V. Moiseeva ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Semantic Content ◽  
Mentor Relationship ◽  
Persian Literature ◽  
Biblical Narrative ◽  
Poetic Tradition ◽  
Medieval Poetry ◽  
Special Place ◽  
Persian Poetry ◽  
Exegetical Tradition ◽  
Special Meaning

The article discusses structure, semantic content, and functioning of the image of the Qur’anic prophet Sulaymān (Biblical Solomon) in Persian medieval poetry. Analysis of the poetic material leads to a conclusion about the main spheres of application of this image and its semantic connotations both in eulogistic and religious-mystical poetry. The article defines the main motifs of the Qur’anic story of this prophet that became a part of Persian poetic tradition and how they relate to the various themes that poets touch upon. For instance, motives of Sulaymān’s power over winds and demons, as well as images of his throne and the ring that gave him that power, were used primarily in eulogies when poets compared their patrons to the legendary king. A special place in Sufi poetry is occupied by the image of the hoopoe and the motif of the bird’s language that reveal topics of a disciple-mentor relationship and leadership in the path of mystical knowledge. As a global characteristic of Sulaymān’s image, we can outline its ambivalence which has its roots in the biblical narrative, where along with wisdom one can find mention of Solomon’s arrogance. Further exegetical tradition speaks of dethronement of Sulaymān by a demon as a punishment for arrogance. Later on, these themes can be found in Persian literature in the form of motifs of humility and frailty of the earthly life, which gained special meaning in the context of didactic and mystical poetry.

Die Aktualität Ernst Cassirers in Frankreich

2009 ◽  
Vol 2009 (2) ◽  
pp. 241-248
Author(s):  
Muriel Van Vliet
Keyword(s):  
Striking Feature ◽  
Historical Contextualization

The paper reviews Cassirer's recent reception in France and takes two international meetings in Rennes and Paris as an opportunity to determine current research interests in this area. A striking feature of French concern is the stress on art historical contextualization of Cassirer's thought (Riegl, Wolfflin, Panofsky).

Borysa Popławskiego Uwagi o poezji: autorskie credo a wyobraźnia tłumacza

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (XXIII) ◽  
pp. 97-105
Author(s):  
Grzegorz Ojcewicz
Keyword(s):  
Creative Process ◽  
Poetic Tradition ◽  
Literary Process

This article scrutinizes the structure and content of Boris Poplavsky’s Notes on Poetry. The text reveals the thoughts of this Russian poet who writes about the Russian poetic tradition (Pushkin, Blok) and mentions selected aspects of emigrant reality. B. Poplavsky stresses the importance of an innovative element in the creative process. He indicates the basic mechanisms governing the inner literary process which determine the evolution of fiction.

A.S. PUSHKIN’S LITERARY WORLD IN THE CREATIVE PERCEPTION BY A.T. TVARDOSKY AND A.A. KULESHOV

2020 ◽  
pp. 18-32
Author(s):  
Dmirij Bestolkov
Keyword(s):  
Creative Development ◽  
Poetic Tradition ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Study Hypothesis

The article is devoted to the creative development of A.S. Pushkin’s poetic tradition in the works by A.T. Tvardovsky and A.A. Kuleshov. The material of the research is based on the lyrics, criticism and journalism of the writers worked in different years. According to the study hypothesis, the models of A.S. Pushkin's tradition realization in A. Tvardovsky’s and A. Kuleshov’s literary worlds are characterized by a wide variety and adaptation at several levels such as a theme of the work, a poetic motif, a literary image, a genre and principles of literary thinking. In conclusion of the study, it is argued that the relationship between the works by A.A. Kuleshov and A.T. Tvardovsky is manifested (from the perspective of different themes, motives, genres, images) through A.S. Pushkin's perceived assessment of reality, i.e. «A.S. Pushkin's individual world-attitude» (according to V.D. Skvoznikov). «Pushkin's individual world-attitude» is understood as skills to perceive and reflect not only the global historic events, but also everyday phenomena of a trivial order, an ability not only to identify themselves in these various events, but also to assess the course of these events in their own poetic world.

Horace's Odes

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Tarrant
Keyword(s):  
Subject Matter ◽  
Lyric Poetry ◽  
Latin Literature ◽  
Poetic Tradition ◽  
Roman World ◽  
Universal Themes

Horace’s body of lyric poetry, the Odes, is one of the greatest achievements of Latin literature and a foundational text for the Western poetic tradition. These 103 exquisitely crafted poems speak in a distinctive voice—usually detached, often ironic, always humane—reflecting on the changing Roman world that Horace lived in and also on more universal themes of friendship, love, and mortality. This book introduces readers to the Odes by situating them in the context of Horace’s career as a poet and by defining their relationship to earlier literature, Greek and Roman. Several poems have been freshly translated by the author; others appear in versions by Horace’s best modern translators. A number of poems are analyzed in detail, illustrating Horace’s range of subject matter and his characteristic techniques of form and structure. A substantial final chapter traces the reception of the Odes from Horace’s own time to the present. Readers of this book will gain an appreciation for the artistry of one of the finest lyric poets of all time.

Indigenous Novels in Canada

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tara Hyland-Russell
Keyword(s):  
Coming Of Age ◽  
Institutional Racism ◽  
Indigenous Literature ◽  
Poetic Tradition ◽  
Performance Traditions ◽  
Growing Body ◽  
Key Features ◽  
Power Of Story ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Place And Identity

Canadian Indigenous novels emerged as a specific genre within the last thirty years, rooted in a deep, thousands-year-old ‘performance art and poetic tradition’ of oratory, oral story, poetry, and drama. In addition to these oral and performance traditions are the ‘unique and varying methods of written communication’ that flourished long before contact with Europeans. The chapter considers Canadian novels by Indigenous writers. It shows that Indigenous fiction is deeply intertwined with history, politics, and a belief in the power of story to name, resist, and heal; that novel-length Aboriginal fiction in Canada built on a growing body of other forms of Indigenous literature; and that many Indigenous novels foreground their relationship with place and identity as key features of the resistance against systemic and institutional racism. It also examines coming-of-age novels of the 1980s and 1990s that are grounded in realism.

scholarly journals Editorial, special issue on “Advances in Robust Statistics”

METRON ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marco Riani ◽  
Mia Hubert
Keyword(s):  
Statistical Methods ◽  
Robust Statistics ◽  
Statistical Analyses ◽  
Striking Feature ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Current State ◽  
Editorial Special Issue ◽  
Data Points ◽  
Robust Statistical Methods

AbstractStarting with 2020 volume, the journal Metron has decided to celebrate the centenary since its foundation with three special issues. This volume is dedicated to robust statistics. A striking feature of most applied statistical analyses is the use of methods that are well known to be sensitive to outliers or to other departures from the postulated model. Robust statistical methods provide useful tools for reducing this sensitivity, through the detection of the outliers by first fitting the majority of the data and then by flagging deviant data points. The six papers in this issue cover a wide orientation in all fields of robustness. This editorial first provides some facts about the history and current state of robust statistics and then summarizes the contents of each paper.

The Neuropathic Diathesis, or the Diathesis of the Degenerate

1888 ◽  
Vol 34 (146) ◽  
pp. 167-176
Author(s):  
G. T. Revington
Keyword(s):  
Family History ◽  
Normal Development ◽  
Personal History ◽  
Striking Feature ◽  
General Paralysis ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Mind

I think that the foregoing statistics, and those which follow, together with the large number of cases which I quote, and which connect general paralysis with almost every form of neurotic manifestation, will prove conclusively that neurotic inheritance is a striking feature in the causation of general paralysis. I question whether a distinction between “the cerebral and the insane element” in general paralysis can be maintained. If general paralysis is not a degeneration of the mind-tissue, then the pathology of insanity has no existence, and I would say that the subtle influence for evil, which is transmitted from parents, whose brains are deteriorated by neurotic outbursts, or soaked in alcohol, or wrecked by physiological immorality, tends strongly towards such degeneration. If insanity is, as Dr. Savage says, a perversion of the ego, then a general paralytic is the in-sanest of the insane. We know that the children of a melancholic parent, for example, may develop any form of neurosis—in other words, it is not that melancholia or general paralysis, or any other definite disease, is transmitted, but that a certain tendency to deviate from normal development is transmitted. This tendency to deviate is the neurotic diathesis, and the form of its development is determined by collateral circumstances, and a certain series of collateral circumstances determine the development of general paralysis. Perhaps neurotic inheritance may mean in some cases a limited capital of nervous energy, and if this is wasted recklessly the individual breaks down suddenly and pathologically, as we all do slowly and physiologically. I would also point out that considering the number of histories of insanity which owing to ignorance or reticence we, do not receive, and considering that we never receive information as to the existence of the slighter neuroses, it is marvellous that we get so high a percentage as 51. Of the 145 general paralytics with a reliable history, 38 had a family history of insanity, 28 a family history of drink, 8 of both, 43 had a personal history of drink, 8 of a previous attack too remote to be considered, at least, according to our present ideas, as part of the disease, and the vast majority had a history of some physiological irregularity which must be considered as conducive to the creation of an acquired neurosis. We may now pass to some further statistics.

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