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Abstract:

Comparison of the formal structure of the two works and themes such as time; oppositions and their resolution; relation between form and content; prominence of epiphany; manifestation, advent and apocalypse; and the theme of heroism, reading and identity.

Notes:

The PDF below is a corrected, lightly updated version of the published copy.

Joycean Modernism in a Nineteenth-Century Qur'an Commentary?:

A Comparison of The Báb's Qayyūm Al-Asmā' with Joyce's Ulysses

Todd Lawson

published in Erin and Iran: Cultural Encounters between the Irish and the Iranians, ed. H. E. Chehabi and Grace Neville

Boston: Ilex Foundation & Center for Hellenic Studies, Harvard University, 2015

Download: lawson_joycean_modernism.pdf.

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