Content Analysis and Structure

Book Title and Author

• A book titled "A Stylistic Survey of Persian Poetry" by Dr. Sirous Shamissa
• Second edition, 4th printing
• Published by Mitra Publishing

Table of Contents

• Preface to the second edition
• Preface
• Chapter 1: Introduction
  • Periods of Persian poetry
  • A brief overview of pre-Islamic Persian poetry
  • Footnotes
  • Exercises
• Chapter 2: Khorasanic Style
  • The Tahirid & Saffarid Period
  • Characteristics of this Period's Style
  • The Samanid Period
  • Characteristics of this Period's Style
  • The Ghaznavid Period
  • Characteristics of this Period's Style
  • The Emergence of the Seljuks in the 4th Century of the Fifth Hijri
  • Differences in Dialects
  • Poets of this Period
• Chapter 3: 6th-Century Persian Poetry
  • Reasons for the Change in Khorasanic Style
  • Three Schools of Poetry in the 6th Century
  • Khorasan & Iraq
  • Continuing the Khorasanic Style in the 6th Century
  • Intermediate style or style of the Seljuk period
  • Comparison of poems by Manuchehri and Masud Sa'd Salman
  • Explanations of some literary devices
• Chapter 4: The Iraqi Style
  • The Mongol Invasion and its Consequences
  • The Rise of Sufism
  • The Popularity of Ghazal
  • Origin of Ghazal
  • Sana'i
  • Khaqani
  • Nezami
  • Anwari
• Chapter 5: Intermediate Style of the Iraqi and the Indian Styles
  • Fighani
  • Wasiqat
  • W. Bafaqqi
• Chapter 6: The Indian Style
  • Overview of the factors contributing to the emergence of the Indian style
  • Characteristics of the Indian style verse structure
  • Fore-couplet and prominent couplet
• Chapter 7: The Return Period
  • Contributing Factors to the Return Movement
  • Reactionary style and imitation
• Chapter 8: Modern Persian Poetry
  • The Populization of Literature
  • Criticism of the Old Ideas of the Return Movement
  • The Pahlavi Period
  • The Modernist movement
  • Three Styles of Modern Poetry
  • Comparison of Modern and Traditional poetry characteristics
• Chapter 9: Further Notes on the Stylistic Analysis of Poetry
  • Period and Individual Styles
  • Study of Style through Literary Types
  • Comparison of Literary Units
  • Descriptive Poetry
  • Direct vs. Indirect Poetry, Prose-Poetry, and Poetic Prose
• Appendices
  • Instruction Manual
  • Glossary
  • Index
  • Bibliography

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