Joycean Modernism in a Nineteenth-Century Qur'an Commentary?

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TITLE

Joycean Modernism in a Nineteenth-Century Qur'an Commentary?: A Comparison of The Báb's Qayyūm Al-Asmā' with Joyce's Ulysses

AUTHOR 1

Todd Lawson

DATE_THIS

2015

VOLUME

ed. H. E. Chehabi and Grace Neville

TITLE_PARENT

Erin and Iran: Cultural Encounters between the Irish and the Iranians

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Boston

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Ilex Foundation & Center for Hellenic Studies, Harvard University

ABSTRACT

Comparison of the formal structure of the two works and themes such as time; oppositions and their resolution; relation between form and content; prominence of epiphany; manifestation, advent and apocalypse; and the theme of heroism, reading and identity.

NOTES

The PDF below is a corrected, lightly updated version of the published copy.

CONTENT

Download: lawson_joycean_modernism.pdf.

TAGS

Qayyumul-Asma (book); James Joyce; Ulysses (book); English literature; Literature (general); Language; Arts; Time (general); Epiphany; Apocalypse; Epics; Mythology; Joseph (Prophet); Alast (Primordial Covenant); Day-year principle; Abjad; Numerology; Words and phrases; Remover of Difficulties (invocation); Qaim; Twelfth Imam; Arising; Reading; Disconnected letters of the Quran; Quran; Interfaith dialogue; Islam; Shiism; Modernism; Opposites; Pairs of words; Knowledge; Monism; Dualism; Giordano Bruno; Philosophy; Typology

LOCATIONS

Ireland; Dublin; Iran (documents)

POSTED

2015-08-31 by Jonah Winters

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4935

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2015-09-03 15:55

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author

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English