Alif: Journal of Comparative Poetics, Volume 32 - The Imaginary and the Documentary: Cultural Studies in Literature, History, and the Arts

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 in architecture. Collage in art, portrait paintings, political poetry, archival footage in films, the historical novel, and the metaphors of historiography are some of the examples that demonstrate the interfacing between the imaginary and the documentary. Subjectivity and ideology of the artist and scholar might be couched in a flight of fantasy or in a rational argument, but in both cases they are joined to a specific worldview that is analyzed and discussed.

Info autore

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.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Con la collaborazione di: Ferial Ghazoul (Editore)
• Editore: The American University in Cairo Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 15.06.2012
• EAN: 9789774165283
• ISBN: 978-977-416-528-3
• Pagine: 500
• Dimensioni: 165 mm x 239 mm x 36 mm
• Peso: 1021 g
• Serie: Alif: Journal of Contemporary; Alif: Journal of Contemporary
• Categoria: Narrativa > Romanzi