The Text of Ferdowsi's Shâhnâma and the Burden of the Past (original) (raw)

Journal of the American Oriental Society, 1998

Olga Davidson

Abstract

... Such a criterion of correctness is based merely on the etymology of khan, and it ignores the poetics of the func-tional interplay between khwan and khan. ... flux, due to oral performance, for some time after its first "publication" (and that to search for an ur-text is thus to set off after ...

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