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Language and Text
2020. Vol. 7, no. 4, 41–60
doi:10.17759/langt.2020070404
ISSN: 2312-2757 (online)

In the Footsteps of the Contexts of the Georgian Renaissance Poem (Shota Rustaveli in Jerusalem)

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V. Chelidze

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Abstract

In world literature, Shota Rustaveli is known as a poet of the Renaissance. He brilliantly portrayed free-thinking, spiritually and physically perfect epic characters in the poem "The Knight in the Panther's Skin". An original artistic look, a broad outlook, surprise with the breadth of scale: "The Knight in the Panther's Skin" expresses the new humanistic ideals of the great period. As a Georgian literary monument of verbal art, Rustaveli's poem precedes the works of the European Renaissance. These creative processes, different in time of writing and from different geographic regions, developed independently of each other.

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Keywords: XII-XIII centuries, "The Knight in the Panther's Skin", Shota Rustaveli, Queen Tamar, Persian legend, explanation, fiction, original poem, biblical motives, Christian worldview, historical analogies, literary parallels, Renaissance, Jerusalem, historical and literary contexts

Journal rubric: World Literature. Textology

DOI: https://doi.org/10.17759/langt.2020070404

Acknowledgements. Dedicated to the 60th anniversary of the discovery of the fresco by the genius poet of the Cross Monastery of the Holy City by the Georgian scientific expedition (participants - Academician Akaki Shanidze, Academician Georgy Tsereteli and poet-academician Irakli Abashidze).

For citation: Chelidze V. In the Footsteps of the Contexts of the Georgian Renaissance Poem (Shota Rustaveli in Jerusalem) [Elektronnyi resurs]. Âzyk i tekst = Language and Text, 2020. Vol. 7, no. 4, pp. 41–60. DOI: 10.17759/langt.2020070404. (In Russ., аbstr. in Engl.)

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Information About the Authors

Vladimir Chelidze, Doctor of Philology, Professor, Head of the Research Department, Center for Georgian Art in Israel, Israel, ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9485-3279, e-mail: vladimer1958@yahoo.com

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