Fatemeh Keshavarz

Gebundenes Buch

Recite in the Name of the Red Rose

Poetic Sacred Making in Twentieth-Century Iran

Beschreibung

Introduces Western readers to constructions of the sacred in twentieth-century Iranian poetry. Sifting through the lives and writings of modern and classical poets, the author provides a systematic examination of the array of religious impulses in Persian verse. She views poetry as the site of the emergence of the self and the sacred.

Autor

A native of Iran, Fatemeh Keshavarz is a professor of Persian and comparative literature and chair of the Department of Asian and Near Eastern Languages and Literatures at Washington University in St. Louis. She is the author of Reading Mystical Lyric: The Case of Jalal al-Din Rumi.

Produktdetails

• Studies in Comparative Religion
• Verlag: University of South Carolina Press
• Seitenzahl: 193
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Mai 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 165mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 440g
• ISBN-13: 9781570036224
• ISBN-10: 1570036225
• Artikelnr.: 21731531