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050 4 _aPS166 -- .S845 2014eb
082 0 _a810.9382974
100 1 _aAminrazavi, Mehdi.
245 1 0 _aSufism and American Literary Masters.
250 _a1st ed.
264 1 _aAlbany :
_bState University of New York Press,
_c2014.
264 4 _c©2014.
300 _a1 online resource (314 pages)
336 _atext
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_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
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_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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_2rdacarrier
490 1 _aSUNY Series in Islam Series
505 0 _aIntro -- 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 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.
505 8 _aThe 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.
520 _aExplores the influence of Sufism on nineteenth- and early twentieth-century writers.
588 _aDescription based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
590 _aElectronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
650 0 _aAmerican poetry-Islamic influences.
650 0 _aSufi poetry, American-History and criticism.
650 0 _aSufism in literature.
650 0 _aMuslims in literature.
650 0 _aIslam in literature.
655 4 _aElectronic books.
700 1 _aNeedleman, Jacob.
776 0 8 _iPrint version:
_aAminrazavi, Mehdi
_tSufism and American Literary Masters
_dAlbany : State University of New York Press,c2014
_z9781438453538
797 2 _aProQuest (Firm)
830 0 _aSUNY Series in Islam Series
856 4 0 _uhttps://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=3408944
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