Alif 23: Literature and the Sacred

Alif 23: Literature and the Sacred

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English & Comparative Literature Department

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Studies in this collection treat varied aspects of the relationship between literary discourses and ideas of the sacred in different cultures and epochs. Contributions by established and emerging scholars from the Arab world, South Asia, Europe, and North America examine issues such as the treatment of the sacred in literary texts and traditions, the literary dimensions of sacred texts, the impact of the sacred on literary imagination, the role of the literary in sacred experience, and the contestations between the respective projects of literature and the sacred over the constitution of cultural and social norms. Alif vol. 23 Contributors: English and French sections: Nasr Abu Zaid, Karen Campbell, Angelica DeAngelis, Markus Dressler, Michael Frishkopf, Scott Kugle, Heba Machhour, Olivier Sécardin, Marla Segol. Arabic section: Farid Abu Si’da, Boutros Hallaq, Ahmed Taher Hassanein, Anwar Ibrahim, Richard Jacquemond, Salah Kamel, Ali Mabrook, Sa’id Tawfiq.

ISBN

978-9774248221

Publication Date

2003

Publisher

Department of English and Comparative Literature, (AUC)

City

Cairo

Series

Alif: Journal of Contemporary Poetics

Disciplines

Comparative Literature | Creative Writing

Alif 23: Literature and the Sacred

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