| Alif 33: The Desert: Human Geography and Symbolic Economy Contributor(s): Ghazoul, Ferial (Editor) |
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ISBN: 977416587X ISBN-13: 9789774165870 Publisher: American University in Cairo Press OUR PRICE: $85.45 Product Type: Paperback Published: July 2013 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Collections | Middle Eastern - Art | Subjects & Themes - Landscapes & Seascapes - Literary Criticism | Poetry |
| Dewey: 808.1 |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6.7" W x 9.4" (1.50 lbs) 600 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Middle East |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This interdisciplinary issue is devoted to the desert-as a geographical locus and symbolic image-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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Ghazoul, Ferial: - 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. |