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Courtly Riddles

Name: Courtly Riddles
Brand: PURDUE UNIVERSITY PRESS
SKU: 9781557534675
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PURDUE UNIVERSITY PRESSISBN: 9781557534675

Enigmatic Embellishments in Early Persian Poetry

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By Ali-Asghar Seyed-Gohrab
Imprint: PURDUE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Release Date: November 28, 2007
Format: PAPERBACK
Pages: 258

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This book is the first study of Persian literary riddles to appear in English. It translates and analyses a wide range of complex riddling poems from the tenth to the twelfth centuries, including the masters of the genre. It also analyses the relationship between metaphors and riddles and the genre of literary description.

A.A. Seyed-Gohrab is a researcher in the Department of Languages and Cultures of the Middle East at the University of Leiden.

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