Birds, Birds, Birds: A Comparative Study of Medieval Persian and English Poetry, especially Attar’s Conference of Birds, The Owl and the Nightingale, Chaucer’s The Parliament of Fowls and The Canterbury Tales

Somayeh Baeten

doi:10.5771/9783831675791

Birds, Birds, Birds: A Comparative Study of Medieval Persian and English Poetry, especially Attar’s Conference of Birds, The Owl and the Nightingale, Chaucer’s The Parliament of Fowls and The Canterbury Tales

Series: English and Beyond

Volume 11 1. Edition 2020

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doi.org/10.5771/9783831675791
ISBN print: 978-3-8316-4860-3
ISBN online: 978-3-8316-7579-1
utzverlag, München utzverlag, München

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Zusammenfassung

Somayeh Baeten, née Shafiei, is a German citizen born in Tehran in 1981. She was raised in a caring Persian family with her beloved mom, Soosan, who inspired and supported her devotedly through all stages of life, to whom this book is devoted. After finishing school, Somayeh as a talented student, finished her Bachelors and Masters in English Language and Literature in her hometown. She came later to Germany to continue her studies and received her Dr. Phil. (Ph.D.) in English Linguistics and Medieval Literature from Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. In Munich, she got to know her dear husband, Andre, and later gave birth to her lovely daughter, Niki.

Since 2005, she has been teaching classes in English Linguistics and Literature at universities in both her hometown, Tehran, and Munich. Moreover, she has experienced Establishing and Organizing EFL Learning Centres at Universities in her hometown. Being motivated in her academic life and interested in both Persian and English literature, reading literary books, lecturing, translating and travelling around the world, she got a deep understanding and knowledge of literature to write the present book: “Birds, Birds, Birds: A Comparative Study of Medieval Persian and English Poetry, especially Attar’s Conference of Birds, The Owl and the Nightingale, Chaucer’s The Parliament of Fowls and The Canterbury Tales”, in which she compares these medieval literary masterpieces of the East and the West.

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i–viii Titelei/Inhaltsverzeichnis i–viii
1–5 1. Introduction 1–5
5–8 2. Attar 5–8
9–11 3. The Owl and the Nightingale 9–11
11–15 4. Chaucer 11–15
15–19 5. Major Sources 15–19
19–40 6. Contents and Structure 19–40
40–52 7. Genres 40–52
53–57 8. Social Classes 53–57
58–102 9. Major Ideas and Motifs 58–102
102–104 10. Conclusion and General Comparison 102–104
104–108 11. Bibliography 104–108
108–118 12. Appendices 108–118

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