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Recite in the name of the red rose : poetic sacred making in twentieth-century Iran / Fatemeh Keshavarz.
Van Pelt Library PK6420.H64 K47 2006
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Keshavarz, Fatemeh, 1952-
- Series:
- Studies in comparative religion (Columbia, S.C.)
- Studies in comparative religion
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Persian poetry--20th century--History and criticism.
- Persian poetry.
- Holy, The, in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 193 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Columbia, S.C. : The University of South Carolina Press, [2006]
- Contents:
- The "imaginative struggle with language": a story told in the thickness of oil
- "The primordial mysteries, neither you understand nor I": the changing sacred in premodern Persian poetry
- "I was heading for God's quarters": resignifying the poetic idiom for modern spiritual expression
- In "the fragrant core of a fertilized egg": merging the feminine, the natural, and the spiritual
- "Infinite" fruits in the basket of poetry: resignifying the mystical idiom for spiritual expression
- "Hurry, Nazarene, hurry!" true prophets do not turn back nor do they die
- Epilogue. An infinite basket for infinite fruits: methodological conclusions.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [169]-187) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1570036225
- OCLC:
- 62593464
- Publisher Number:
- 9781570036224
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