Verlag:
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, Oxford
This book offers a study of West-East cross-cultural and cross-contextual literacy by investigating Goethe's relationship to the poetics of fourteenth-century Persian poet Hafiz in the West-östlicher Divan. Goethe's collection of poetry, this book...
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This book offers a study of West-East cross-cultural and cross-contextual literacy by investigating Goethe's relationship to the poetics of fourteenth-century Persian poet Hafiz in the West-östlicher Divan. Goethe's collection of poetry, this book argues, constitutes a turning point in the history of German poetic subjectivity. The intellectual and historical significance of the Divan is examined by considering Goethe's conception of history both in relation to Hegel's philosophy of history as well as the linear notion of progress throughout the nineteenth century. Furthermore, the book demons
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Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Chapter 1 The Disposition: Goethe in Weimar; Chapter 2 The Object of Poetic Desire: Court Poetry and the Ghazal; Chapter 3 The Present behind the Past: Hafiz in Shiraz; Chapter 4 The Convergence: European Enlightenment and Persian Poetry; Chapter 5 The Precondition: Hammer-Purgstall in Vienna; Chapter 6 The Poetic Event and its Temporality; Bibliography; Index
