{"product_id":"boris-darchia-the-poetic-world-of-vakhtang-vi-vakhtang-meekvsis-poeturi-samqaro-poeticheskiy-mir-vakhtanga-vi-1988-in-georgian","title":"Boris Darchia. The Poetic World of Vakhtang VI (Vakht'ang meekvsis p'oet'uri samqaro \/ Poeticheskiy mir Vakhtanga VI). 1988. In Georgian.","description":"\u003cp\u003eდარჩია, ბორის. ვახტანგ მეექვსის პოეტური სამყარო \/ რედ. ალ. ბარამიძე, ს. ცაიშვილი ; საქ. სსრ მეცნ. აკად., შოთა რუსთაველის სახელ. ქართული ლიტ. ინ-ტი.\u003cbr\u003eთბილისი : გამომცემლობა «მეცნიერება», 1988. 440 გვ.\u003cbr\u003eმაგარი ყდა. ფორმატი 60×90\/16. ტირაჟი 3500 ეგზ. \u003cbr\u003e***\u003cbr\u003eDarchia, Boris. The Poetic World of Vakhtang VI \/ editors Al. Baramidze and S. Tsaishvili; Academy of Sciences of the Georgian SSR, Shota Rustaveli Institute of Georgian Literature.\u003cbr\u003eTbilisi : Metsniereba Publishing House, 1988. 440 pp.\u003cbr\u003eHardcover. Format 60×90\/16 (standard octavo, approximately 145×220 mm). Print run of 3,500 copies. \u003cbr\u003eCondition: good.  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA substantive monograph by the Georgian literary scholar Boris Darchia on the literary works of Vakhtang VI of Kartli (1675–1737), one of the most important figures in early modern Georgian intellectual history. King of Kartli (with interruptions) from 1716 to 1724 and thereafter in exile in Russia until his death at Astrakhan in 1737, Vakhtang VI was simultaneously a statesman, legal codifier (his Dasturlamali code remained in force in eastern Georgia throughout the rest of the eighteenth century), printing pioneer (he established the first Georgian printing press in Tbilisi in 1709 and brought out the editio princeps of Shota Rustaveli's Vepkhistqaosani in 1712, with his own learned commentary still consulted today), commentator and translator (his Persian-Georgian translations and his exegetical apparatus to Rustaveli are foundational documents of Georgian literary criticism), and a substantial original poet. Darchia's monograph is the principal scholarly study of Vakhtang's poetic oeuvre: it opens with a critical reconstruction of the Vakhtangian poetic corpus (separating poems that genuinely belong to the king from those subsequently misattributed and identifying lyrical pieces preserved in manuscript but unprinted), proceeds to a thematic analysis of Vakhtang's \"poetic world\" (the figure of the poet and his literary milieu; literary models and inheritance; didactic and instructional motives; the contrast of joy and sorrow; religious themes treated through symbolic-allegorical exegesis, with detailed studies of the Amir-Nasariani, Sat'rt'ialani, and Salbunad gulisa cycles; the patriotic motif), and concludes with a major study of Vakhtang's versification — his place in the development of Georgian metrics and his relation to Mamuka Baratashvili's Chashniki. Issued under the editorial supervision of Aleksandre Baramidze (1902–1994), the doyen of twentieth-century Rustavelology, and Sargis Tsaishvili, both senior Rustaveli scholars at the Shota Rustaveli Institute of Georgian Literature, the volume is an essential reference for specialists in pre-modern Georgian literature, Rustavelology, the eighteenth-century Georgian literary renaissance under the Bagrationi court, and the history of the Georgian printed book.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Stanza Rare Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44308158709802,"sku":null,"price":60.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0701\/6359\/5306\/files\/IMG_2333.jpg?v=1777725679","url":"https:\/\/stanzararebooks.com\/products\/boris-darchia-the-poetic-world-of-vakhtang-vi-vakhtang-meekvsis-poeturi-samqaro-poeticheskiy-mir-vakhtanga-vi-1988-in-georgian","provider":"Stanza Rare Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}