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Inquiries into Proto-World Literatures The Challenging “Literary Fate” of the Quatrain across the Persian and Arabic Literary Tradition

Western studies on Persian metrical system debate the linguistic origins of quatrains, (Per. robāʽiyyāt - Ar. rubāʽiyyāt) in Arabic, and regard prosodic Persian schemes independently of Arabic counterparts, despite reciprocally influenced metrical patterns. Attempts to dismantle Arabo-centric critic...

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Published in:Middle East - Topics & Arguments
Main Author: Fontana, Chiara
Format: Journal Article
Language:

English
Published: Philipps-Universität Marburg 2019
Subjects:
Quatrains
Rubā‛iyyāt
Comparative Philology
Rhetorical and Metrical Studies
Persian and Arabic Literatures
World literature
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Summary:Western studies on Persian metrical system debate the linguistic origins of quatrains, (Per. robāʽiyyāt - Ar. rubāʽiyyāt) in Arabic, and regard prosodic Persian schemes independently of Arabic counterparts, despite reciprocally influenced metrical patterns. Attempts to dismantle Arabo-centric critical inferences about Persian metres are largely prosodic observations of the robāʽi/rubāʽī, thus neglecting their ontological evolution from a metrical scheme into an aesthetically experimental frame in Persian and Arabic poetry. This study closely investigates the spread of robāʽī/rubāʽī from Persian to Arabic literature employing a holistic culturally embedded methodology to reread their linkages in global terms, as an example of an inherited “Proto-World Literature”.
DOI:10.17192/meta.2019.13.8088

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