Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Venice University Press PHAIDRA University of Padua The Subtle Meaning. An Outline of Persian ʿilm-i maʿānī PDFDocument Dal Bianco, Alessia http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode http://phaidra.cab.unipd.it/o:542516 Dal Bianco, Alessia, The Subtle Meaning. Venezia, Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Venice University Press, 2024-02-27, 129 p. https://polovea.sebina.it/SebinaOpac/resource/the-subtle-meaning-an-outline-of-persian-ilmi-maani/VEA03455815 2024 eng How does syntax interact with context to convey subtle meanings beyond expectations? A branch of the Arabic-Islamic study of rhetoric known as ‘the science of meanings’ (ʿilm-i maʿānī) discusses this point. This volume is an introduction to the Persian science of meanings as it appears in a selection of textbooks published in Iran over the last century. It examines basic concepts, clarifies jargon, and comments on dozens of examples, mainly taken from classical Persian poetry. It also offers insights into how the Arabic model was adapted to Persian and eventually transformed into a literary theory of how Persian poets made the best use of syntactical possibilities. Persian poetry • Persian language • History of linguistics • Middle East studies • Iranian studies • Literary theory • Comparative world rhetoric application/pdf (1548354 bytes) hdl:11168/11.542515 https://phaidra.cab.unipd.it/o:542515