“Love’s Limits: In Persian Poetry and Film” explores the unbounded, unruly, anarchic, border-traversing potential of love through the works of Iranian poets and filmmakers spanning a millennium. In each of the works examined in this study, love precipitates a crisis in relation to a different set of questions or problems that results in a liminal moment (or moments) of confusion, ambiguity, uncertainty, and ambivalence that tests and transcends a love whose sense is conceptually limited. And in each instance, love’s occurrence marks, or is marked by, the dissolution of a problematic, insoluble either/or dichotomy, in relation to a particular concept or a set of concepts (e.g., knowable/unknowable, human/animal, belief/unbelief, communicable/incommunicable, and reality/fiction), and the appearance of an indeterminate, indecipherable neither/nor enigma. In turn, this study not only attempts to shed light on the recurring motif of love’s boundlessness, in Persian poetry and film, but also the phenomenon of love itself, as it occurs in bound and unbounded form.

Creator

• Gabri, Richard

DOI

• https://doi.org/10.21985/n2-j7n7-jn35

Subject

• Comparative literature

Language

• en

Alternate Identifier

• http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14440
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Date created

• 2018-01-01

Resource type

• Dissertation

Rights statement

• In Copyright