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Reading mystical lyric
Reading mystical lyric: the case of Jalal al-Din Rumi
Fatemeh Keshavarz
Publisher: Columbia, S.C. : University of South Carolina Press, c1998
ISBN: 1570031800   DDC: 891  

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [183]-189) and index

Contents: Editor's preface -- Preface -- Note on transliteration and
dating -- Rumi: the person and the poet -- Rumi's lyrical output:
historiography and analysis -- The "footless" journey in
"nothingness": the power of illogical tropes. -- "How sweetly with a
kiss is the speech interrupted": Rumi's poetics of silence --
"Wondrous birds grow from the palm of my hand": the dynamism of
imagery in the Dvn -- "A hundred drums are being played in my
heart": the. intricacies of the sonic game -- "The rhyme and the
sophistry, let the flood take them all": the rhythm of childhood --
In the quest for love -- Turning the funeral into a whirling dance:
remapping the generic horizons -- Notes -- Bibliography. -- Index

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Dewey Class: 891 -- East Indo-European & Celtic

Book Details:

Language: eng
Physical Description: x, 194 p. ; 24 cm

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