Goethe and Hafiz

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.

Autorentext

Shafiq Shamel (PhD, Stanford University) teaches German and Persian at the Defense Language Institute (USA).

Inhalt

Contents: The Disposition: Goethe in Weimar - The Object of Poetic Desire: Court Poetry and the Ghazal - The Present behind the Past: Hafiz in Shiraz - The Convergence: European Enlightenment and Persian Poetry - The Precondition: Hammer-Purgstall in Vienna - The Poetic Event and its Temporality: Goethe's Divan and Philosophy of History.