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”.

Chiara Fontana (2019). Inquiries into Proto-World Literatures: The Challenging “Literary Fate” of Quatrains across the Persian and Arabic Literary Tradition. MIDDLE EAST - TOPICS & ARGUMENTS, 13, 38-57 [10.17192/meta.2019.13.8088].

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

Chiara Fontana
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2019

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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”.
2019
Chiara Fontana (2019). Inquiries into Proto-World Literatures: The Challenging “Literary Fate” of Quatrains across the Persian and Arabic Literary Tradition. MIDDLE EAST - TOPICS & ARGUMENTS, 13, 38-57 [10.17192/meta.2019.13.8088].
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