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Lovanii [Leuven]: In Aedibus Peeters, 1997. First edition (softcover). 8vo (24cm by 16cm), xviii, 507pp. Portrait frontispiece. Original printed cream-coloured card wrappers. Minor rubbing of the front cover, light bump and minor mark to the leading edge of the text block; overall, this book is in good to very good condition. Text in English. ISBN 9068317954 Lovanii [Leuven]: In Aedibus Peeters, 1997. ISBN 9068317954 9789068317954 [GB]
Lovanii [Leuven]: In Aedibus Peeters, 1997 First edition (softcover). 8vo (24cm by 16cm), xviii, 507pp. Portrait frontispiece. Original printed cream-coloured card wrappers. Minor rubbing of the front cover, light bump and minor mark to the leading edge of the text block; overall, this book is in good to very good condition. Text in English. ISBN 9068317954.
ISBN10: 9068317954, ISBN13: 9789068317954, [publisher: Peeters Publishers, Leuven] Softcover Paperback. This book investigates the life and work, and the literary and historical background, of the most popular Armenian poet and minstrel of the early modern era, Arut'in called Sayat'-Nova (c. 1712-1795). The most important of his songs in Armenian, Tiflis Armenian, Georgian and Azeri Turkish, one in four languages (these plus Persian), are edited in a unified transliteration from the original Georgian and Armenian scripts on the texts in the Tetrak, a 1765/6 MS in at least partly his own hand, and versions made in 1823 at St. Petersburg by his youngest son Ioane, with notes on variants, loanwords, cryptica ("trobar clus"), puns, etc. Six odes in poor Russian, hitherto ignored, are examined for motive and sentiments. Chapters are devoted to versification, genres and influences (mainly Persian), an attempt being made to analyse the attraction of his verse. Comparisons are drawn with the work, and where relevant the lives of Sappho, Ovid (fellow exile), Hafiz, Bernard de Ventadorn (fellow victim of the backbiter), Shakespeare (and his Dark Lady), etc.Sayat'-Nova's poems are mainly love-songs, others, mainly in Georgian, are complaints to his patron (eulogised as "the Emperor of China", etc.) concerning injustices at his hand and those of Georgian courtiers who held him, and Armenian Orthodox (which he was proud to be, as he declared ...
ISBN10: 9068317954, ISBN13: 9789068317954, [publisher: Peeters Publishers, Leuven] Softcover Paperback. This book investigates the life and work, and the literary and historical background, of the most popular Armenian poet and minstrel of the early modern era, Arut'in called Sayat'-Nova (c. 1712-1795). The most important of his songs in Armenian, Tiflis Armenian, Georgian and Azeri Turkish, one in four languages (these plus Persian), are edited in a unified transliteration from the original Georgian and Armenian scripts on the texts in the Tetrak, a 1765/6 MS in at least partly his own hand, and versions made in 1823 at St. Petersburg by his youngest son Ioane, with notes on variants, loanwords, cryptica ("trobar clus"), puns, etc. Six odes in poor Russian, hitherto ignored, are examined for motive and sentiments. Chapters are devoted to versification, genres and influences (mainly Persian), an attempt being made to analyse the attraction of his verse. Comparisons are drawn with the work, and where relevant the lives of Sappho, Ovid (fellow exile), Hafiz, Bernard de Ventadorn (fellow victim of the backbiter), Shakespeare (and his Dark Lady), etc.Sayat'-Nova's poems are mainly love-songs, others, mainly in Georgian, are complaints to his patron (eulogised as "the Emperor of China", etc.) concerning injustices at his hand and those of Georgian courtiers who held him, and Armenian Orthodox (which he was proud to be, as he declared ...
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