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Welcoming Fighānī : imitation and poetic individuality in the Safavid-Mughal ghazal
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- Creator
- Paul E. Losensky
- Format
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- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Costa Mesa, Calif. : Mazda Publishers, 1998
- Physical Details
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- xii, 393 pages, 2 pages of plates ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9781568590707, 1568590709
- OCLC
- ocm39024634
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [366]-380) and indexes.
- Ch. 1. A Firm, Magical Poet and a Strange, Prodigal Lover: Baba Fighanis Life and Literary Reception in the Tazkirah Literature -- Ch. 2. Poetry as Biography and the Modern Fighanis: Problems of Defining the Poetic Voice -- Ch. 3. "I am the Wild Tulip": Imitation and Poetic Self-Definition -- Ch. 4. The Spread of Poetry and the Consolidation of the Tradition in the Ninth/Fifteenth Century -- Ch. 5. "Death Cannot Tyrannize the Lords of Poetry": Imitatio and Innovation in Safavid-Mughal Poetry -- Ch. 6. Imitation and Three Perspectives on Fighani's Poetic Legacy -- App. A. Unpublished Biographical Notices on Baba Fighani -- App. B. Models and Imitations of Baba Fighani: a Table -- App. C. Persian Texts of Poetic Citations