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سخنران: دک تر دومِنیکو اینجِنیتو، دانشیار ادبیات فارسی، دانشگاه کالیفرنیا، لس آنجلس
طرفبحث: دکتر جاستین لَنداو، دانشیار زبانها و تمدنها ی خاور نزدیک، دانشگاه هاروارد
کتاب جدید دومِنیکو اینجِنیتو با عنوان « تماشاگهِ حُسن: سعدی شیرازی و زیباییشناسی مِیل در شعر فارسی کلاسیک» بر پیون دهای بین جنبههای اروتیک، عرفانی و فلسفی غزلهای سعدی شیرازی تمرکز دارد. در این سخنرانی، دکتر اینجِنیتو به تحلیل زمینههای تاریخی که غزلیات سعدی در آن پیوندهای غیرقابلقیاس میان تجربیات زندگی و خلاقیت ادبی ایجاد کرده است میپ ردازد.
The event recording is now available:
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Domenico Ingenito’s new
book\, Beholding Beauty: Sa‘di of Shiraz and the Aesthetics of Desire i
n Medieval Persian Poetry\, focuses on the connections between the ero
tic\, mystical\, and philosophical aspects of Sa‘di of Shiraz’s love poems
(ghazals). The book invites its readers to rediscover Saʿdi’s
ghazals through the lens of the relationship between experience and th
e celebration of beauty in the intellectual\, political\, and spiritual fra
meworks of medieval Iran.
This talk will approach the role of perform ance and performativity in Sa‘di’s ghazals through the analysis of the historical contexts in which medieval lyric poetry created incommensur able connections between life experiences and literary creativity. By drawi ng upon both Sa‘di’s pseudo-biographical accounts from the Golestān and the mystical ritual of listening to poetry and music for spiritual en ds (known as samā‘)\, our conversation will introduce a new resear ch project on lyric performance in the context of the Sufi practices and ae sthetic ideals of 13th-century Shiraz.
Domenico Ingenito is Associate Professor of Persian Li terature at the University of California\, Los Angeles\, and Director of th e Program on Central Asia. His research interests center on medieval Persia n poetry\, visual culture of Iran and Central Asia\, gender and translation s studies\, and manuscript culture. His most recent articles are: “Hafez’s ‘Shirāzi Turk’: A Geopoetical Approach (Iranian Studies)” and “‘A Marvelous Painting’: the Erotic Dimension of Saʿdi’s Praise Poetry” (Jo urnal of Persianate Studies). His most recent book is Beholding Beauty: Saʿdi of Shiraz and the Aesthetics of Desire in Medieval Persian Poetry ( Brill\, 2020). His Italian translation of Forugh Farrokhzad’s collected poe ms\, along with all original texts\, will be published in 2022 by Bompiani.
Justine Landau is Associate Professor of Near Eastern Languages and Civil
izations at Harvard University\, where she teaches Persian literatures and
cultures. Her research focuses on c
lassical Persian literature and poetics. Before joining Harvard\, she taught at the Sorbonne Nouvelle and the
University of California in Los Angeles\, and was a researcher at the Insti
tute of Iranian Studies of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. Her publicatio
ns include various articles\, book chapters\, translations\, and a monograp
h\, De rythme & de raison. Lectu
re croisée de deux traités de poétique persans du XIIIe siècle [Of Rhythm and Reason: A Comparative Readin
g of Two Thirteenth-Century Persian Treatises on Poetics] (Paris: Presses d
e la Sorbonne Nouvelle\, 2013). Her next book project explores the aestheti
cs of occasion and circumstance in early Persian court poetry.