Poet and hero in the Persian Book of kings:

A masterpiece of Persian Classical epic, the Shahnama or Book of Kings was composed by Abul-Qasem Ferdowsi at the beginning of the eleventh century. Because the Shahnama presents itself as a chronicle of the reigns of the shahs from the primordial founders to the Sasanian dynasty which ended in 651,...

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1. Verfasser: Davidson, Olga M. (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Ithaca u.a. Cornell Univ. Press 1994
Ausgabe:1. publ.
Schriftenreihe:Myth and poetics
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Zusammenfassung:A masterpiece of Persian Classical epic, the Shahnama or Book of Kings was composed by Abul-Qasem Ferdowsi at the beginning of the eleventh century. Because the Shahnama presents itself as a chronicle of the reigns of the shahs from the primordial founders to the Sasanian dynasty which ended in 651, scholarly attention has centered on the question of its historical accuracy. Addressing the literary as well as the historical and mythological aspects of the Shahnama, Olga M
Davidson makes this centerpiece of Iranian culture accessible to Western readers
Drawing on recent work in epic studies and oral poetics, Davidson considers analogies with Classical and medieval European narratives as she investigates the poem's social contexts. Her interpretation of the Shahnama focuses on both the figure of the poet himself and on his protagonists - the superhuman hero Rostam and the historical or historicized shahs
Beschreibung:XIII, 197 S.
ISBN:0801427800

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