Hasan Sijzi, also known as Amir Hasan Sijzi Dehlavi, is considered the originator of the Indo-Persian ghazal, a poetic form that endures to this day—from the legacy of Hasan’s poetic descendent, Hafez, to contemporary Anglophone poets such as John Hollander, Maxine Kumin, Agha Shahid Ali, and W. S. Merwin.
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In Adulterous Nations, Tatiana Kuzmic enlarges our perspective on the nineteenth-century novel of adultery, showing how it often served as a metaphor for relationships between the imperialistic and the colonized. In the context of the long-standing practice of gendering nations as female, the novels under discussion here—George Eliot’s Middlemarch, Theodor... and An electronic version of this book is freely available, thanks to the support of libraries working with Knowledge Unlatched. KU is a collaborative initiative designed to make high-quality books open access for the public good. More information about the initiative can be found at www.knowledgeunlatched.org.
Praktische Philosophie zielt in ihren Reflexionen sozialer und politischer Zusammenhänge meist auf eine ahistorische und universal ausgerichtete Argumentation ab. Es geht dann philo-sophisch u.a. um verallgemeinerbare normative Prinzipien oder eine allgemeingültige Theorie von Demokratie, Recht oder Menschsein. Postkoloniale Theorien machen seit gut 50 Jahren in verschiedensten Spielarten darauf auf-merksam, dass...