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سخنران: مهدیه ولیزاده، دانشجوی دکتری ادبیات تطبیقی، دانشگاه تورنتو
به نظر میرسد که مناقشات بر سر ا ینکه معشوق در شعر کلاسیک فارسی ماهیتی زمینی دارد یا آسمانی هرگز پایان نخواه د یافت. طرفداران قرائت آسمانی از معشوق (که بهویژه پس از انقلاب اسلامی مورد حمایت قرار گرفتند) افرادی را که قائلند که معشوق در شعر کلاسیک فارسی زمینی ا ست، تنگنظر میدانند. از سوی دیگر، طرفداران قرائت زمینی بودن عشق در ادبیات فارسی، خوانشهای عرفانی از معشوق را خوانشهایی جزمی و منسوخ میبینند که توس ط سنتگرایان رواج یافته است. در این سخنرانی ماهیت معشوق در شعر کلاسیک فارسی (با محوریت سبک عراقی) از طریق پنج رویکرد متفاوت اما مرتبط ادبیات فلسفی، تر جمهای و تطبیقی، زبانشناختی، شعری و در نهایت تاریخی بررسی و تحلیل میشود.< /p>
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It seems that t
he controversies over the nature of the beloved in classical Persian poetry
as an earthly or ethereal phenomenon would never end. Those in favor of th
e celestial reading of it (who particularly enjoyed more fortune after the
1979 Islamic revolution) consider their counterparts with close affinities
for an earthly beloved to be narrow-minded. The adherents of terrestrial lo
ve (who have not favored many academic voices\, inside Iran due to the hege
mony of the Islamicists\, and in diaspora\, because of the dominance of Isl
amic Studies in Religious Departments)\, though\, see mystical readings dog
matic and outdated\, prevailed by traditionalists. The topic gets even more
complicated when one takes into account the attitudes in the medieval Musl
im world toward homosexual acts and homosexual orientation\, shāhid-bāzī\,
and thus\, the gender of this beloved. The present article explores and ana
lyzes the nature of the beloved in Persian classical poetry (with a focus o
n theʿirāqī style) via five different but related approaches: philosophical
\, translational and comparative literature\, linguistic\, poetic\, and ult
imately\, historical/developmental. The study concludes that a structural a
nd essentialist reading of the beloved in Persian classical poetry as eithe
r earthly or ethereal would create numerous problems at multiple levels\, a
nd that that the spirit of Persian classical poetry in this regard is the s
pirit of uncertainty\, due to various reasons. The present research hopes t
o offer an expanded meaning of mystical love to read and interpret Persian
mystical/lyrical ʿirāqī-style poetry.
Mahdieh Vali-Zadeh is a PhD candidate at the Centre for Comparative Literature of Univers ity of Toronto and a graduate of Harvard World Literature program. Mahdieh is now focused on writing her comparative dissertation\, which concerns the reception of British Orientalist scholarship of Persian mysticism on the m atter of the ‘self’\, both individual and national\, in two different but r elated frameworks: among the British Romantic poets of the late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth century\, and the Iranian intellectuals of the early t o mid-twentieth century. Her comparative Masters’ thesis on the matter of t he sublime in Rumi and Wordsworth’s poetry was nominated for Best American Comparative Literature Association Master Thesis Award from York University .