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Alif: Journal of Comparative Poetics, no. 41
Literature, History, and Historiography
Häftad, 2022
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A wide-ranging exploration of the relationship between history and literatureThis issue of Alif explores the relationship between literature and history. What do history and literature have to say to each other? What can literature say that history cannot, and vice versa? Do they work with or …
Cultural Perceptions of Animals: Old and New. التصورات الثقافية للحيوانات: القديمة والحديثة
Alif 45 (2025) ألف
Häftad, 2026
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This volume brings us “Cultural Perceptions of Animals: Old and New.” The contributors explore how the representation of animals can help shape humans’ understanding of nature and themselves in literature, art, and the sciences. Animals have always figured into human storytelling – written, visual, …
Alif: Journal of Comparative Poetics, no. 43
Brotherly/Sisterly Relations in Literature and the Arts
Häftad, 2023
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A rich exploration of sibling bonds in literature and the artsThis issue of Alif explores representations of brotherhood/sisterhood in literature and the arts. What does it mean to be part of a brotherly/sisterly bond? And what do such bonds entail, positively or otherwise? These questions have …
Alif: Journal of Comparative Poetics, no. 26
Wanderlust: Travel Literature of Egypt and the Middle East
Häftad, 2006
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This issue of Alif is devoted to travel and travel-writing in the broadest cross-cultural sense and focuses on what Mahmoud Manzalauoui has termed indigenes, visitants, sojourners, and habitants or metics, particularly in Egypt and the Middle East. It is a tribute to Middle East scholar and …
Alif: Journal of Comparative Poetics, no. 27
Childhood: Creativity and Representation
Häftad, 2008
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This issue of Alif is published on the centennial anniversary of the founding the first Casa dei Bambini, a progressive educational institution for children, which seeks an alternative mode in bringing them up and nurturing their independence. An extract from the writings of the pedagogue of this …
Alif: Journal of Comparative Poetics, no. 28
Artistic Adaptations: Approaches and Positions
Häftad, 2008
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This issue of Alif: Journal of Comparative Poetics addresses literary and artistic adaptations comprehensively. It offers articles on adaptations and appropriations of textual and visual material, focusing on adapting works from one genre to another, from one discourse to another, and from one …
Alif: Journal of Comparative Poetics, no. 29
The University and Its Discontents: Egyptian and Global Perspectives
Häftad, 2009
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This issue of Alif: Journal of Comparative Poetics explores how universities have always borne the task of questioning, and how the role and status of the university itself has been put into question: the very idea of a university has been open to contestation, revision, and crisis. In today’s …
Alif: Journal of Comparative Poetics, no. 30
Trauma and Memory
Häftad, 2010
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This issue of Alif focuses on trauma and loss and their presence in collective and individual memory. The question of traumatic events has been recognized in psychology, psychoanalysis, and literature, but scholarly studies have mostly concentrated on traumas enacted in the West—World Wars and the …
Alif: Journal of Comparative Poetics, no. 32
The Imaginary and the Documentary: Cultural Studies in Literature, History, and the Arts
Häftad, 2012
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This issue of Alif: Journal of Comparative Poetics is devoted to the intersection of the imaginary and the documentary, the fictional and the cultural in the three genres of literature (poetry, fiction, and drama), in history, in film (feature and documentary), in photography, in plastic arts, and …
Alif: Journal of Comparative Poetics, no. 33
The Desert: Human Geography and Symbolic Economy
Häftad, 2013
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This interdisciplinary issue of the literary journal Alif 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, …
Alif: Journal of Comparative Poetics, no. 34
World Literature: Perspectives and Debates
Av Andrew Rubin
Häftad, 2014
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As one of the first non-European journals to critically address the category of Weltliteratur bilingually from the perspective of the Global South, this special issue of Alif addresses this problem theoretically and empirically. The critical conversation about the problem of the category of …
Alif: Journal of Comparative Poetics, no. 24
Archaeology of Literature: Tracing the Old in the New
Häftad, 2004
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This issue of Alif investigates the different strata constituting texts, and the presence of older material (myths, classics, hymns, rituals, romance, philosophical fragments, etc.) as subtexts in literature. Articles explore the processes and modalities of such inclusions in a given work or the …
Alif: Journal of Comparative Poetics, no. 23
Literature and the Sacred
Av Shahab Ahmed
Häftad, 2003
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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 …
