See original version at bahai-library.com/sobhani_reading_motif_nahkjavani.
COLLECTION | Published articles |
TITLE | A Postsecular Look at the Reading Motif in Bahiyyih Nakhjavani's The Woman Who Read Too Much |
AUTHOR 1 | Mary A. Sobhani |
DATE_THIS | 2015 |
VOLUME | 25:1-2 |
TITLE_PARENT | Journal of Bahá'í Studies |
PAGE_RANGE | 73-99 |
PUB_THIS | Association for Bahá'í Studies North America |
CITY_THIS | Ottawa |
ABSTRACT | Nakhjavani’s historical novel includes metaphors that underscore a link between the secular and the sacred through the material and metaphysical act of reading; cf. McClure’s Partial Faiths: Postsecular Fiction in the Age of Pynchon and Morrison. |
NOTES | Mirrored from journal.bahaistudies.ca/online/article/view/172. |
TAGS | Literature (general); Tahirih; Allegories and metaphors; Reading; Bahiyyih Nakhjavani; Arts; Historical fiction |
CONTENT | About: This article is a work of literary analysis. As such, it analyzes the reading motif in Bahiyyih Nakhjavani’s The Woman Who Read Too Much through a postsecular prism. Nakhjavani’s historical novel, as the title suggests, is densely woven with metaphors that underscore a link between the secular and the sacred through the act of reading. Through the metaphors employed in the novel, the act of reading is shown to be both a material and a metaphysical act. This study owes a significant debt to John McClure’s Partial Faiths: Postsecular Fiction in the Age of Pynchon and Morrison. Download: sobhani_reading_motif_nahkjavani.pdf.
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CROSSREF | another review by the same author (2018) |
PERMISSION | publisher |
LANG THIS | English |
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