By Navid Kermani
What connects Shiite ardour performs with Brecht?s drama? Which of Goethe?s poems have been encouraged by way of the Quran? How can Ibn Arabi?s theology of sighs clarify the performs of Heinrich von Kleist? And why did the Persian writer Sadeq Hedayat establish with the Prague Jew Franz Kafka?
?One who is aware himself and others will right here too comprehend: Orient and Occident aren't any longer separable?: during this new publication, the significantly acclaimed writer and pupil Navid Kermani takes Goethe at his note. He reads the Quran as a poetic textual content, opens jap literature to Western readers, unveils the magical size within the works of Goethe and Kleist, and deciphers the political implications of theatre, from Shakespeare to Lessing to Brecht. Drawing notable comparisons among diversified literary traditions and cultures, Kermani argues for a literary cosmopolitanism that's against all those that might play religions and cultures opposed to each other, separating them from each other by means of strength. among Quran and Kafka concludes with Kermani?s speech on receiving Germany?s maximum literary prize, an impassioned plea for higher fraternity within the face of the tyranny and terrorism of Islamic State.
Kermani?s own assimilation of the classics provides his paintings that topical urgency that distinguishes common literature whilst it speaks to our such a lot intimate emotions. For, in fact, love too lies ?between Quran and Kafka?.
Read Online or Download Between Quran and Kafka: West-Eastern Affinities PDF
Similar literary criticism & theory_1 books
Development of English Literature and Language - Vol. II
Improvement of English Literature and Language - Vol. II by way of Alfred Hix Welsh. This booklet is a duplicate of the unique e-book released in 1883 and should have a few imperfections corresponding to marks or hand-written notes.
Staging Creolization: Women's Theater and Performance from the French Caribbean (New World Studies)
In Staging Creolization, Emily Sahakian examines seven performs through Ina Césaire, Maryse Condé, Gerty Dambury, and Simone Schwarz-Bart that premiered within the French Caribbean or in France within the Eighties and Nineties and shortly thereafter traveled to the U.S.. Sahakian argues that those late-twentieth-century performs by means of French Caribbean girls writers dramatize and enact creolization—the strategy of cultural transformation via blending and clash that happened within the context of the legacies of slavery and colonialism.
The Byronic Hero and the Rhetoric of Masculinity in the 19th Century British Novel
From motion videos to games to activities tradition, sleek masculinity is intrinsically linked to violent festival. This legacy has its roots within the 19th-century Romantic determine of the Byronic hero—the perfect Victorian male: dedicated husband, sexual innovative and weaponized servant of the country.
Virginia Woolf: Experiments in Character - Student Edition
This can be an abridged model of the whole e-book. References were got rid of. the full identify is usually to be had. Virginia Woolf has for a few years been noticeable as a key player in British literary modernism. Following a interval of relative serious forget following her tragic loss of life in 1941, her physique of labor has earned her reputation as a groundbreaking feminist philosopher, a perceptive literary critic, a formidably artistic diarist and correspondent, and as one of many 20th century's prime essayists.
- Were Early Modern Lives Different?: Writing the Self in the Renaissance
- Disability Theory (Corporealities: Discourses Of Disability)
- Susanna Rowson: Sentimental Prophet of Early American Literature
- Thick and Dazzling Darkness: Religious Poetry in a Secular Age
- Cultural Implications of Biosemiotics
- Stage directions in drama
Additional resources for Between Quran and Kafka: West-Eastern Affinities
Example text
- Pleasure With Products: Beyond Usability (Contemporary by William S. Green,Patrick W. Jordan
- Pruning for Flowers and Fruit (CSIRO PUBLISHING Gardening by Jane Varkulevicius