New literature and philosophy of the Middle East :
General Material Designation
[Book]
Other Title Information
the chaotic imagination
First Statement of Responsibility
Jason Bahbak Mohaghegh.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
New York
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Palgrave Macmillan
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2010
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
1(xiv, 234 Seiten).
SERIES
Series Title
Literatures and cultures of the Islamic world
CONTENTS NOTE
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Images of Chaos: An Introduction * Tactic I: Desertion (chaotic movement) * First Annihilation: Fall of Being, Burial of the Real * Tactic II: Contagion (chaotic transmission) * Second Annihilation: Betrayal, Fracture, and the Poetic Edge * Tactic III: Shadow-Becoming (chaotic appearance) * Chaos-Consciousness: Towards Blindness * Tactic IV: The Inhuman (chaotic incantation) * Epilogue: Corollaries of Emergence
SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
Text of Note
Mohaghegh tracks the idea of 'chaos' into the contemporary philosophical and cultural imagination of the postcolonial world, exploring its vital role in the formation of an emergent avant-garde literature in the Middle East, concentrating on the writings of the twentieth-century Iranian new wave.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Middle Eastern literature -- History and criticism -- 20th century.
Middle Eastern literature -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc.