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Alif: Journal of Comparative Poetics, no. 24: Archaeology of Literature: Tracing the Old in the New

Alif: Journal of Comparative Poetics, no. 24: Archaeology of Literature: Tracing the Old in the New

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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 corpus of an author. The issue also includes critical essays on the nature of continuity and correspondence in plots, characters, and styles as well as redeployment of older motifs in modern and postmodern works.

Contributors:

English section: Walid Bitar, Leslie Croxford, Ananya Kabir, Rondo Keele, Steven Nimis, John Rodenbeck, Edward Said, Doris Shoukri, Mounira Soliman, Steffen Stelzer.

Arabic section: Mohammed ÔAjina, Mohammed Birairi, Ayman Al-Desouky, Hasab al-Sheikh JaÔfar, Scheherazade Hassan, Sami Mahdi, Samia Mehrez, Mai Muzaffar/Rafa Nasiri, Lamis Al-Nakkash/Doris Shoukri, Nagwa ShaÔban.

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