Download or read book Birds Birds Birds A Comparative Study of Medieval Persian and English Poetry Especially Attar s Conference of Birds The Owl and the Nightingale Chaucer s The Parliament of Fowls and The Canterbury Tales written by Somayeh Baeten and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Birds Birds Birds A Comparative Study of Medieval Persian and English Poetry especially Attar s Conference of Birds The Owl and the Nightingale Chaucer s The Parliament of Fowls and The Canterbury Tales written by Somayeh Baeten and published by utzverlag GmbH. This book was released on 2021-02-11 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Somayeh Baeten, née Shafiei, is a German citizen born in Tehran in 1981. She was raised in a caring Persian family with her beloved mom, Soosan, who inspired and supported her devotedly through all stages of life, to whom this book is devoted. After finishing school, Somayeh as a talented student, finished her Bachelors and Masters in English Language and Literature in her hometown. She came later to Germany to continue her studies and received her Dr. Phil. (Ph.D.) in English Linguistics and Medieval Literature from Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. In Munich, she got to know her dear husband, Andre, and later gave birth to her lovely daughter, Niki. Since 2005, she has been teaching classes in English Linguistics and Literature at universities in both her hometown, Tehran, and Munich. Moreover, she has experienced Establishing and Organizing EFL Learning Centres at Universities in her hometown. Being motivated in her academic life and interested in both Persian and English literature, reading literary books, lecturing, translating and travelling around the world, she got a deep understanding and knowledge of literature to write the present book: “Birds, Birds, Birds: A Comparative Study of Medieval Persian and English Poetry, especially Attar’s Conference of Birds, The Owl and the Nightingale, Chaucer’s The Parliament of Fowls and The Canterbury Tales”, in which she compares these medieval literary masterpieces of the East and the West.
Download or read book The Parliament of Fowls written by Geoffrey Chaucer and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-05-31 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chaucer's 'Parliament of Fowls' is a story about love, lust, honour, nature . . . and ducks. Simon Webb's highly accessible modern English verse translation conveys the humour and colour of Chaucer's original, and Simon's introduction explains why the poem is now considered to be the work that first introduced the idea of Valentine's Day as we know it. With introduction, glossary and further reading.
Download or read book Two Early Renaissance Bird Poems written by Malcolm Andrew and published by Associated University Presses. This book was released on 1984 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents annotated texts of two poems that have not appeared in a previous critical edition. They are specimens of noncourtly minor poetry; the bird convention which links them is formulaic rather than experimental, their mode is predictable, their outlook decidedly conventional. A publication of the Renaissance English Text Society.
Download or read book The Conference of the Birds written by Attar and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2017-03-07 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “These lofty words are an antidote for anyone sickened by extremism's poison.” Considered by Rumi to be “the master” of Sufi mystic poetry, Attar is best known for this epic poem, a magnificent allegorical tale about the soul’s search for meaning. He recounts the perilous journey of the world’s birds to the faraway peaks of Mount Qaf in search of the mysterious Simorgh, their king. Attar’s beguiling anecdotes and humor intermingle the sublime with the mundane, the spiritual with the worldly, while his poem models the soul’s escape from the mind’s rational embrace. Sholeh Wolpé re-creates for modern readers the beauty and timeless wisdom of the original Persian, in contemporary English verse and poetic prose.
Download or read book The Conference of the Birds written by Farid Ud-Din Attar and published by Toward Publishing. This book was released on 2016-11-07 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abstract: Mantiq Ut-tair, The Conference of the Birds, was composed in the twelfth century by the Persian poet, Farid ud-Din Attar, in the form of an allegorical poem, based on the teaching of the Sufis, of whom Attar was one of the greatest. The book is, as Attar says, 'A gift for distinguished men and a boon for the common'. Translation: This translation by C. S. Nott was first published in 1954 and at that time only two partial translations were available in England. Stanley Nott's rendering from the French prose translation of Garcin de Tassy is virtually complete, and as such was the first to appear in English. Garcin de Tassy's translation is as he says, 'as literal as I have been able to make it intelligible'. He has also retained the flavour, the spirit, and the teaching of Attar's poem. The brush drawings by Kate Adamson are based on those in an ancient Persian manuscript of Mantiq Ut-tair. Additional content: The appendix of this book includes a note about Attar, a short section on the Sufis and a glossary of some of the names and other words used throughout the text.
Download or read book The Owl and the Nightingale written by Nicholas de Guildford and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Birds in Medieval English Poetry written by Michael J. Warren and published by D. S. Brewer. This book was released on 2021-03-19 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First full-length study of birds and their metamorphoses as treated in a wide range of medieval poetry, from the Anglo-Saxons to Chaucer and Gower.
Download or read book The Conference of the Birds written by Farid Attar and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2005-03-31 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Composed in the twelfth century in north-eastern Iran, Attar's great mystical poem is among the most significant of all works of Persian literature. A marvellous, allegorical rendering of the Islamic doctrine of Sufism - an esoteric system concerned with the search for truth through God - it describes the consequences of the conference of the birds of the world when they meet to begin the search for their ideal king, the Simorgh bird. On hearing that to find him they must undertake an arduous journey, the birds soon express their reservations to their leader, the hoopoe. With eloquence and insight, however, the hoopoe calms their fears, using a series of riddling parables to provide guidance in the search for spiritual truth. By turns witty and profound, The Conference of the Birds transforms deep belief into magnificent poetry.
Download or read book The Owl and the Nightingale written by Kathryn Hume and published by Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1975 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Owl and the Nightingale is clearly one of the few major Middle English poems. Kathryn Hume's purpose in writing this book is to offer a new account of the poem, one based on a systematic attempt to assess the validity and usefulness of various possible approaches to the work.
Download or read book The Owl and the Nightingale written by Nicholas de Guildford and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Owl and the Nightingale written by Kathryn Hume and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1975-12-15 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Owl and the Nightingale is clearly one of the few major Middle English poems. Despite the clarity and simplicity of its text, however, the poem has occasioned bitter and still unresolved interpretative controversy. Is the key to its meaning to be found in bird lore? the debate form? Is the poem a political or religious allegory? Despite the radical contradictions in the conclusions of previous critics, most of them have implicitly claimed a unique and exclusive validity. Kathryn Hume's purpose in writing this book is to offer a new account of the poem, one based on a systematic attempt to assess the validity and usefulness of various possible approaches to the work. She shows saneness, balance, and humour both in her criticism of previous interpretations and in her own conclusions. We need, she insists, to understand the nature of the poem before we erect elaborate theories about its meaning. The contradictoriness of the relevant avian traditions, the birds' complete incompetence as debaters, the poem's curiously indeterminate ending, and the critics' inability to agree even on the subject of the controversy, she argues, makes it difficult to see the work as a serious debate about anything. Attempts to find an extrinsic or allegorical meaning have proven radically contradictory and have all neglected large portions of the poem. But since no serious issue is present in the bird's dialogue, the meaning of the poem must indeed be sought elsewhere. Analysis of The Owl and the Nightingale's sequential impact and its manipulation of audience response emphasize the debate's lack of direction, its bitterness, and also – from the reader's point of view – its humour. Kathryn Hume argues that a great deal is clarified and made comprehensible if we regard the poem as a burlesque-satire on human contentiousness. The birds' illogic, the wandering arguments, the unsystematic introduction of various human concerns, and the inconclusive ending are all consistent with the idea that the poem was written as a witty caricature of petty but vicious human quarrelling. Both for its sane reinterpretation of what is widely considered one of the masterpieces of Middle English literature and for the interpretative methodology it employs, The Owl and the Nightingle: The Poem and Its Critics should be of lasting value to medievalists.
Download or read book The Conference of the Birds written by Farid Attar and published by Turtleback Books. This book was released on 1984-07-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An allegorical poem about the search of the world's birds for the perfect king illustrates the mystical beliefs of sufism
Download or read book The Owl and the Nightingale written by Simon Armitage and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2024-11-05 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "One of the earliest literary works to be written in Middle English and one of the first comic poems in the English language, The Owl and the Nightingale (1189-1216) is an anonymous work that describes a debate between two birds. In arguing about such topics as love, marriage, and nesting habits, the owl and the nightingale address issues that remain relevant to contemporary society, such as identity, cultural background, class distinctions, and the right to be heard. The British Library describes it as "a humorous piece of avian mud-slinging as the birds quarrel, not always good-naturedly." It is composed of octosyllabic couplets in an early form of Middle English from before the age of Chaucer. Some scholars see it as a commentary on different traditions of debate; others read it as a reflection of modern scientific thinking on the differences between the human and the animal. The award-winning poet Simon Armitage has translated the 1,700-line poem using full rhyming couplets in iambic octameter. The book includes a facing-page translation of the poem, along with an introduction by Armitage. To produce the translation he worked from facsimile and transcribed editions of the two surviving manuscripts, one at the British Library and one at Jesus College, Oxford, as well as from several other published and online resources. Having already translated Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, The Death of King Arthur, and Pearl, he expects that this is his last medieval translation"--
Download or read book The Conference of the Birds written by Farīd al-Dīn ʻAṭṭār and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The "Conference of the Birds" is a 12th-century Sufi allegory that has beenescribed as the Islamic "Canterbury Tales". Written by an Iranian Sufi,arid ud-Din Attar, who was a major influence on the work of Rumi, it is thetory of the birds' quest for an ideal king, and an allegory for the Sufi (orystical Islamic) path to enlightenment. Though hugely popular andnfluential in the Islamic world, it is still relatively unfamiliar in theest. In this edition, the poet Raficq Abdulla has reinterpreted key extractso make the insight of Sufism accessible to a contemporary reader. Each pages decorated with illustrations taken from Persian manuscripts in theriental collection at the British Library.;The poem uses the birds' journeyo describe the stages of Sufi enlightenment, and each bird represents auman archetype. At the end of the tale, the birds discover tht what they areeeking is none other than themselves: in Sufism, enlightenment is unity withhe Divine, and the way to God is inward, through one's own soul.
Download or read book Bird Parliament written by Farid Attar and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2020-01-29 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bird Parliament or The Conference of the Birds (Manṭiq-uṭ-Ṭayr; 1177) is a Persian allegorical poem by Sufi poet Farid ud-Din Attar, commonly known as Attar of Nishapur. This is a new edition of the first old edition published in 1889, and traslated by Edward FitzGerald (1809 - 1883)
Download or read book The Conference of the Birds written by Farid ud-Din Attar and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 1984-07-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Composed in the twelfth century in north-eastern Iran, Attar's great mystical poem is among the most significant of all works of Persian literature. A marvellous, allegorical rendering of the Islamic doctrine of Sufism - an esoteric system concerned with the search for truth through God - it describes the consequences of the conference of the birds of the world when they meet to begin the search for their ideal king, the Simorgh bird. On hearing that to find him they must undertake an arduous journey, the birds soon express their reservations to their leader, the hoopoe. With eloquence and insight, however, the hoopoe calms their fears, using a series of riddling parables to provide guidance in the search for spiritual truth. By turns witty and profound, The Conference of the Birds transforms deep belief into magnificent poetry.
