Oct. 13: “Contradiction in Hafiz’s Poetry,” Mehdi Harandi
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Join us October 13th at 4:30 pm in the Farouk Mustafa lecture room (Pick 218) for a talk in Persian by Mehdi Harandi:
تناقض در شعر حافظ
شعر حافظ، آنجا که جهان‌بینی و دیدگاه فکری او را نشان می‌‌دهد، گاه، ضدّ و نقیض است. بسیاری از حافظ پژوهان یا، با نادیده گرفتن این تضادها، او را وابسته به یک مکتب فکری خاص دانسته‌اند، و یا سعی کرده‌اند تا توجیهی برای این تضادها بیابند. در این گفتار، پس از یک بررسی کوتاه از این نظریه‌ها، سعی خواهیم کرد تا نشان دهیم که تضاد در شعر حافظ نتیجه‌ی نابسامانی یا دگرگونی فکری او نیست، بلکه حاصل شعور و نبوغ هنری اوست که از شعرش آینه‌ای می‌‌سازد برای تصویرهای متفاوت، نه یک قاب برای تصویری خاص
Contradiction in Hafiz’s Poetry
Hafez’s poetry, when he expresses his world views and his philosophy of life, at times includes contradictions. Many literary studies of Hafez’s poetry have either ignored such contradictions (thus, associating him with a specific school of thought), or tried to explain them away. In this talk, after a brief review of some of these studies, we will try to show that what seems to be contradiction in Hafez’s poetry is indeed due to his artistic genius, by which he has created a mirror to reflect many views on an ideological issue, rather than framing a particular school of thought on that issue.
[If the embedded payer doesn’t work for you, you can download the file by right-clicking the following link and selecting “save as”: Mehdi Harandi. Tanaqoz dar sher-e Hafez]
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