This paper deals with two portrait stories narrated by two of the most important Persian-writing authors of 17th century Mughal India. Trough a deep reading of the two texts (a couplet poem and a prose work mixed with poetry), I show how the literary narratives on "living images" in early modern Indo-Persian literature interact with a whole set of conceptual protocols on the nature of vision, representation and the self, in a comparative perspective which extends to Renaissance and Baroque Europe.
Portraits in the Mirror: Living Images in Nāṣir ʿAlī Sirhindī and Mīrzā ʿAbd al-Qādir Bīdil
PELLO', S.
2018-01-01
Abstract
This paper deals with two portrait stories narrated by two of the most important Persian-writing authors of 17th century Mughal India. Trough a deep reading of the two texts (a couplet poem and a prose work mixed with poetry), I show how the literary narratives on "living images" in early modern Indo-Persian literature interact with a whole set of conceptual protocols on the nature of vision, representation and the self, in a comparative perspective which extends to Renaissance and Baroque Europe.
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