Reading mystical lyric: the case of Jalal al-Din Rumi
Fatemeh Keshavarz
Reading mystical lyric: the case of Jalal al-Din Rumi
Author
Fatemeh KeshavarzPublisher
University of South Carolina PressEdition 1
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Title and Author
Reading mystical lyric: the case of Jalal al-Din Rumi / Fatemeh KeshavarzPublication Details
کلمبیا : University of South Carolina Press، 1998مPhysical Description
x, 194 p.; 24 cm..Subject
Jalal al-Din Rumi,1207-1273 Criticism and interpretationseries
(Studies in comparative religion؛ )Language
انگلیسیNotes
Includes bibliographical references )p. ]381[-981( 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