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Comparative Literature and Classical Persian
Poetics 
Seven Essays
Olga M. Davidson

This work, a collection of seven essays, centers on classical Persian poetics,
primarily the epic art of Ferdowsi's Shâhnâma. It combines traditional literary
approaches with new comparative methods, especially those developed by Albert B. Lord in
his ethnographic fieldwork on living oral traditions and by Georges Dumézil in his
linguistic analysis of thematic parallelisms between heroes of epic and gods of myth and
ritual.
The comparative methods applied by the book stem largely from the field of Comparative
Literature. The basic question is not only how the methods of Comparative Literature
enhance our understanding of Persian literature, but also how the Persian evidence in its
own right illuminates some major topics of Comparative Literature today.
Specifications:
2000: xvi+158 pp.,bibl., index.
Bibliotheca Iranica: Intellectual Traditions Series, No. 4
ISBN:1-56859-098-9(paper): $19.95
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