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UNINA9910816904803321 |
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Sufism and American literary maste / / edited by Mehdi Aminrazavi ; foreword by Jacob Needleman |
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Albany, New York : , : SUNY Press, , 2014 |
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©2014 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (314 p.) |
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Collana |
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Soggetti |
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American poetry - Islamic influences |
Sufi poetry, American - History and criticism |
Sufism in literature |
Muslims in literature |
Islam in literature |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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""Contents ""; ""Foreword ""; ""Introduction ""; ""Notes ""; ""The English Romantic Background ""; ""1. English Romantics and Persian Sufi Poets: A Wellspring of Inspiration for American Transcendentalists ""; ""Platonism in Romantic and Sufi Poetry ""; ""Comparative Persian�English Poetics: Archetypal and Anagogic Criticism ""; ""Anagogic Correspondences Between Sufi and Romantic Poetry ""; ""Carpe Diem ""; ""Nunc Aeternum ""; ""Mundus Imaginalis ""; ""Annihilation, Mystical Death, Fana� ""; ""The Unity of Religions "" |
""Conclusion: Platonic Poetics and the Science of Anagogic Criticism """"Notes ""; ""The Master: Emerson and Sufism ""; ""2. The Chronological Development of Emerson�s Interest in Persian Mysticism ""; ""Notes ""; ""3. Ralph Waldo Emerson and the Muslim Orient ""; ""Notes ""; ""4. Emerson and Aspects of Sa�di�s Reception in Nineteenth-Century America ""; ""Notes ""; ""5. Emerson on Hafiz and Sa�di: The Narrative of Love and Wine ""; ""Emerson�s Encounter with Persian Literature ""; ""Emerson�s Writings on Persian Mystical Literature ""; ""Emerson�s Translations from Hafiz "" |
""Echoes of Hafiz�s Poems in Emerson�s Verse """"Notes ""; ""The |
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Disciple: Walt Whitman ""; ""6. Whitman and Hafiz: Expressions of Universal Love and Tolerance ""; ""Notes ""; ""7. Walt Whitman and Sufism: Towards “A Persian Lesson� ""; ""A Song of Myself ""; ""Whitman and Rumi ""; ""Notes ""; ""The Initiates: Other American Authors ""; ""8. Literary “Masters� in the Literature of Thomas Lake Harris, Lawrence Oliphant, and Paschal Beverly Randolph ""; ""Thomas Lake Harris ""; ""Laurence Oliphant ""; ""Paschal Beverly Randolph ""; ""Conclusions ""; ""Notes "" |
""9. American Transcendentalists� Interpretations of Sufism: Thoreau, Whitman, Longfellow, Lowell, Melville, and Lafcadio Hearn """"Longfellow, Lowell, Melville, and Lafcadio Hearn ""; ""Notes ""; ""10. The Persians of Concord ""; ""Notes ""; ""11. Omarian Poets of America ""; ""The Omar Khayyam Club of America ""; ""The Omarian Poets of New England ""; ""The Ruba�iyyat of Mark Twain ""; ""The Eliots ""; ""Other American Literary Movements and Figures ""; ""Notes ""; ""12. “Bond Slave to FitzGerald�s Omar�: Mark Twain and The Rubáiyát ""; ""Notes "" |
""13. Mark Twain�s Ruba�iyyat: AGE�A Rubáiyát """"Note ""; ""Glossary ""; ""Bibliography ""; ""List of Contributors ""; ""Index "" |
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