“Khamse” of Nizami Ganjavi and Literature in Persian (Tradition of Nazire to the “Haft Peykar” in the XIV-XVIII Centuries)

Abstract

The poem “Haft Peykar” of Nizami has been studied in the light of several problems of poetics. Genre syncreticity of the work and space-time relations has been viewed and genesis of plots in the “Haft Peykar” has been traced in their later transformation in the XIV-XVIII centuries. In the analysis of followers of Nizami, reflection of several characteristic features of poetical “answer” have been shown, issues of normativity and creative individuality within nazire have been studied, evolution of genre form and usage of descriptive means have been researched.