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Alif: Journal of Comparative Poetics, no. 33
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- Book Synopsis
- This interdisciplinary issue of the literary journal Alif is devoted to the desert**x2014;as a geographical locus and symbolic image**x2014;and to various texts related to it, drawn from literature and the arts, history and anthropology, film and environmental studies.Scholars from the Middle East, Africa, Europe, and North America contribute articles in Arabic, English, and French related to the visual representation of the desert in medieval iconography and in contemporary cinema, in American poetry and in pre-Islamic poetics, in human geography and in sociological thought, in French novels and in Arabic novels, in religious traditions and in ecological approaches, in travel literature and in critical discourse.Includes contributions by Saeed Alwakeel, Saad El Bazei, Sharif Elmusa, Jehan Farouk, Naglaa Hassan, Abdullah Ibrahim, Salma Mobarak, Senayon Olaoluwa, Yasmine Ramadan, Nathalie Roman, Randa Sabry.
- About The Author
- Ferial Ghazoul is an Iraqi scholar, critic, and translator. She is professor of English and comparative literature at the American University in Cairo and has written extensively on gender issues in modern and medieval literature.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9789774165870
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- The American University in Cairo Press, (15 July 2013)
- Number of Pages
- 600
- Weight
- 695 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 241 x 165.1 x 23 mm
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