Goethe's Faust and the Divan of Ḥāfiẓ : Body and Soul in Pursuit of Knowledge and Beauty / / Hiwa Michaeli

• Autore: Michaeli Hiwa
• Pubblicazione: Berlin/Boston, : De Gruyter, 2019; Berlin ; ; Boston : , : De Gruyter, , [2019]; ©2019
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (344)
• Disciplina: 832/.6
• Soggetto topico: Literary studies: general; Literary studies: from c 1900 -; Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers; Western philosophy: Ancient, to c 500; Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge
• Soggetto non controllato: German Orientalism; Goethe; Neoplatonism; Sufi Literature; Ḥāfiẓ
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Acknowledgement -- Contents -- Introduction -- I. Direct Pursuit of Knowledge of the Transcendent Truth -- II. Toward Life -- III. Colorful Reflections -- Conclusion -- Bibliography
• Sommario/riassunto: This book explores the poetic articulations of a shift from a transcendent to an immanent worldview, as reflected in the manner of evaluation of body and soul in Goethe's Faust and Ḥāfiẓ' Divan. Focusing on two lifeworks that illustrate their authors' respective intellectual histories, this cross-genre study goes beyond the textual confines of the two poets' Divans to compare important building blocks of their intellectual worlds.; This book explores the poetic articulations of a shift from a transcendent to an immanent worldview, as reflected in the manner of evaluation of body and soul in Goethe's Faust and Ḥāfiẓ' Divan. Focusing on two lifeworks that illustrate their authors' respective intellectual histories, this cross-genre study goes beyond the textual confines of the two poets' Divans to compare their intellectual worlds.
• Titolo autorizzato: Goethe's Faust and the Divan of Ḥāfiẓ
• ISBN: 3-11-066157-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 996312645303316
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno