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A comparative analysis of language and silence in postmodernism and the Sufi poets Jalaluddin Rumi and Farid Ud-Din Attar
Author
Annisa Sha'aban
Supervisor
Murphy, Cornelius Anthony
Abstract
This thesis acknowledges at the onset, the inherent ambiguity position of Postmodemism and it's subversiveness towards a single encompassing definition. It will likewise consider the abstruse nature of Sufism as a body of thought. The Sufi literature used within are extracted from translations of Farid ud-Din Attar's Conference of the Birds and Jalaluddin Rumi's The Mathnawi and The Divani Shamsi Tabrizi and as such, acknowledges the possible loss of authorial intention through these translations. This thesis explores the issues of language and silence and their roles within both Postmodemism as well as Sufism and will make explicit the point at which each diverges to achieve separate end-goals.
Date Issued
2004
Call Number
BP189.23 Ann
Date Submitted
2004