Dr. Sonja Mejcher-Atassi is Assistant Professor in the Civilization Sequence Program at the American University of Beirut. She studied Oriental Studies at Oxford University (DPhil 2005) and Comparative Literature and Arabic Studies at the Free University of Berlin (MA 2000). Her research interests are in modern and contemporary literature and art in the Arab world, interrelations of word and image, politics and art, book art, collection and museum studies, gender studies, cultural memory and history.
"Review - English Interrelations of literature and art, word and
image, are manifold. However, they have re-mained largely
unexplored when it comes to literature and art in the Arab world.
This book aims at introducing interarts studies to Middle Eastern
studies and, at the same time, hopes to widen the horizon of
interarts studies, which represents an interdisciplinary field of
re-search in comparative literature. The book focuses on three case
studies, examining the rapport of Arab writers, Jabra Ibrahim
Jabra, Abd al-Rahman Munif and Etel Adnan, with art, be it as an
art critic, an art lover, or an artist in his/her own right. It
then sets out to read selected literary texts relationally, across
the fields of literature and art, breaking with con-ventional ways
of reading as well as seeing. "
Interrelations of literature and art, word and image, are manifold.
However, they have re-mained largely unexplored when it comes to
literature and art in the Arab world. This book aims at introducing
interarts studies to Middle Eastern studies and, at the same time,
hopes to widen the horizon of interarts studies, which represents
an interdisciplinary field of re-search in comparative literature.
The book focuses on three case studies, examining the rapport of
Arab writers, Jabra Ibrahim Jabra, Abd al-Rahman Munif and Etel
Adnan, with art, be it as an art critic, an art lover, or an artist
in his/her own right. It then sets out to read selected literary
texts relationally, across the fields of literature and art,
breaking with con-ventional ways of reading as well as seeing.
Review - English Interrelations of literature and art, word and
image, are manifold. However, they have re-mained largely
unexplored when it comes to literature and art in the Arab world.
This book aims at introducing interarts studies to Middle Eastern
studies and, at the same time, hopes to widen the horizon of
interarts studies, which represents an interdisciplinary field of
re-search in comparative literature. The book focuses on three case
studies, examining the rapport of Arab writers, Jabra Ibrahim
Jabra, Abd al-Rahman Munif and Etel Adnan, with art, be it as an
art critic, an art lover, or an artist in his/her own right. It
then sets out to read selected literary texts relationally, across
the fields of literature and art, breaking with con-ventional ways
of reading as well as seeing.
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