عنوان

<The> Shahnama-i Ismail: Art And Cultural Memory In Sixteenth - Century Iran

42566

eng

;advisor: David J. Roxburgh

Department Of History Of Art And Architecture, Harvard University, Massachusetts

: 2002

‭XIV, 453p.‬

UMI Microform 3051327

Bibliography

Ph.D

, History of Art and Architecture

, Department Of History Of Art And Architecture, Harvard University, Massachusetts

This dissertation examines the corpus of illustrated manuscripts of the panegyric Shahnama-i Ismail, a work commissioned by Shah Ismail himself from the poet Qasimi. While the existence of this poem has been known for some time, the manuscripts have languished largely unappreciated. When the extant manuscripts of the poem are tallied up, though, the evident popularity of Qasimi's panegyric at sub-royal levels indicates a work that struck a nerve in sixteenth-century Safavid culture. The thrust of the dissertation is to examine this phenomenon using tools from recent developments in the sciences of mind, including cognitive psychology, schema theory, and connectionism. These tools are brought to bear on the manuscripts using a methodology heavily indebted to the Polish philosopher Roman Ingarden's phenomenological approach to artworks, which he analyzes as intentional objects requiring completion or activation by the consciousness of the viewer.

Ismail I, Shah Of Iran, 1487 -- Dissertations

Iran -- History, 16th -18th Century -- Dissertations

Epic Literature, Persian -- Dissertations

Illumination Of Books And Manuscripts, Iranian -- Dissertations

اسماعیل صفوی اول، شاه ایران، ۸۹۲- ۹۳۰ق. -- پایان نامه ها

Wood, Barry David, وود، بری دیوید

Necipoglu, Gulru, Supervisor

Roxburgh, David J, Consultor

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