Title
Alif 23: Literature and the Sacred
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Department
English & Comparative Literature Department
Description
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
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APA Citation
Ghazoul, F. J.
(2003).Alif 23: Literature and the Sacred. Department of English and Comparative Literature, (AUC).
https://fount.aucegypt.edu/faculty_books/171
MLA Citation
Ghazoul, Ferial J. Professor
Alif 23: Literature and the Sacred. Department of English and Comparative Literature, (AUC), 2003.
https://fount.aucegypt.edu/faculty_books/171