1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910454568703321

Autore

Safavi Seyed Ghahreman

Titolo

Rūmī's mystical design [[electronic resource] ] : reading the Mathnawī, book one / / Seyed Ghahreman Safavi and Simon Weightman ; foreword by Seyyed Hossein Nasr

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Albany, : SUNY Press, c2009

ISBN

1-4384-2801-4

1-4416-2598-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (293 p.)

Collana

SUNY series in Islam

Altri autori (Persone)

WeightmanS. C. R

Disciplina

891/.5511

Soggetti

Sufi poetry, Persian - History and criticism

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Rumiâ€?s Mystical Design""; ""Contents""; ""Foreword""; ""Preface""; ""Introduction""; ""1. Contextualizing the MathnawÄ«""; ""Mawlana's Lifeâ€?An Outline""; ""Mawlana's Religious Outlook""; ""Mawlana's Literary Antecedents""; ""2. Reading the MathnawÄ«""; ""The MathnawÄ«  as Given""; ""The Question of Structure""; ""Some Further Considerations""; ""Synoptic Reading and the Principles of Parallelism and Chiasmus""; ""Rhetorical Latency""; ""Two Iranian Exemplars""; ""The Synoptic Reading of Book One of the MathnawÄ«""; ""3. A Synoptic Reading of Book One of the MathnawÄ«""

""4. Book One as a Whole and as a Part""""The Synoptic Analysis of Book One as a Whole""; ""The Rationale of Book One as a Whole""; ""The Linear and the Nonlinear Ordering of Book One""; ""Book One as a Part""; ""5. Conclusion""; ""How Mawlana Composed the MathnawÄ«""; ""Mawlanaâ€?s Hidden Organization as the Writerâ€?s Plan""; ""The Design of the MathnawiÂ"̄"; ""Finale""; ""Notes""; ""Glossary of Persian Words""; ""Select Bibliography""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""

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2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910480718503321

Autore

Omer-Sherman Ranen

Titolo

Imagining the kibbutz : visions of utopia in literature and film / / Ranen Omer-Sherman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

University Park, Pennsylvania : , : Pennsylvania State University Press, , [2015]

©2015

ISBN

0-271-07057-9

0-271-07061-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (342 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Dimyonot: Jews and cultural imagination ; ; 2

Disciplina

892.409355

Soggetti

Kibbutzim in literature

Kibbutzim - History

Israeli literature - History and criticism

Kibbutzim in motion pictures

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-333) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Introduction -- 1 Trepidation and Exultation in Early Kibbutz Fiction -- 2 “With a Zealot’s Fervor” Individuals Facing the Fissures of Ideology in Oz, Shaham, and Balaban -- 3 The Kibbutz and Its Others at Midcentury Palestinian and Mizrahi Interlopers in Utopia -- 4 Late Disillusionments and Village Crimes Th e Kibbutz Mysteries of Batya Gur and Savyon Liebrecht -- 5 From the 1980's to 2010 Nostalgia and the Revisionist Lens in Kibbutz Film -- Afterword Between Hope and Despair Th e Legacy of the Kibbutz Dream in the Twenty-First Century -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

In Imagining the Kibbutz, Ranen Omer-Sherman explores the literary and cinematic representations of the socialist experiment that became history’s most successfully sustained communal enterprise. Inspired in part by the kibbutz movement’s recent commemoration of its centennial, this study responds to a significant gap in scholarship. Numerous sociological and economic studies have appeared, but no



book-length study has ever addressed the tremendous range of critically imaginative portrayals of the kibbutz. This diachronic study addresses novels, short fiction, memoirs, and cinematic portrayals of the kibbutz by both kibbutz “insiders” (including those born and raised there, as well as those who joined the kibbutz as immigrants or migrants from the city) and “outsiders.” For these artists, the kibbutz is a crucial microcosm for understanding Israeli values and identity. The central drama explored in their works is the monumental tension between the individual and the collective, between individual aspiration and ideological rigor, between self-sacrifice and self-fulfillment. Portraying kibbutz life honestly demands retaining at least two oppositional things in mind at once—the absolute necessity of euphoric dreaming and the mellowing inevitability of disillusionment. As such, these artists’ imaginative witnessing of the fraught relation between the collective and the citizen-soldier is the story of Israel itself.