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EnglishThe article examines the figure of the animal-guide in medieval Persian literature, in particular in the narrative poetry of the 11th-14th centuries. The author focuses above all on the onager, a sort of wild donkey, and on its various functions within some works of pre-Islamic and Islamic times. In the latter, the analysis essentially concerns some epic and romance mathnavis (narrative poems) on the Sassanid King Bahrām V, a legendary figure famous as onager's hunter. This animal appears in the Persian literature mainly with the function of animal-guide, but also in some relationship with death. In the latter aspect, the onager is sometimes represented as a messenger or announcer of death or while leading the protagonist of the poem himself to the afterworld.
| Titolo: | The Animal-guide through Medieval Persian Poems |
| Autore/i: | Nahid Norozi |
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| Anno: | 2020 |
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| Titolo del libro: | Tierwelten und Textwelten.Beiträge der Bologneser Tagung |
| Pagina iniziale: | 311 |
| Pagina finale: | 324 |
| Digital Object Identifier (DOI): | http://dx.doi.org/10.3726/b16550 |
| Abstract: | The article examines the figure of the animal-guide in medieval Persian literature, in particular in the narrative poetry of the 11th-14th centuries. The author focuses above all on the onager, a sort of wild donkey, and on its various functions within some works of pre-Islamic and Islamic times. In the latter, the analysis essentially concerns some epic and romance mathnavis (narrative poems) on the Sassanid King Bahrām V, a legendary figure famous as onager's hunter. This animal appears in the Persian literature mainly with the function of animal-guide, but also in some relationship with death. In the latter aspect, the onager is sometimes represented as a messenger or announcer of death or while leading the protagonist of the poem himself to the afterworld. |
| Data stato definitivo: | 25-set-2020 |
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