Land and mind : Kenneth White's geopoetics in the Arabian context /

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Author / Creator:Omar, Bsaithi.
Imprint:Newcastle : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2008.
Description:1 online resource (viii, 196 pages)
Language:English
Subject:White, Kenneth, -- 1936- -- Criticism and interpretation.
Doughty, Charles Montagu, -- 1843-1926. -- Travels in Arabia Deserta.
Doughty, Charles Montagu, -- 1843-1926 -- Travel -- Arabian Peninsula.
Doughty, Charles Montagu, -- 1843-1926.
White, Kenneth, -- 1936-
Travels in Arabia Deserta (Doughty, Charles Montagu)
Human ecology in literature.
Nature in literature.
Geography in literature.
POETRY -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Geography in literature.
Human ecology in literature.
Nature in literature.
Travel.
Arabian Peninsula.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11169999
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ISBN:9781443806725
1443806722
1282190555
9781282190559
9781847184931
1847184936
9786612190551
6612190558
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-189).
English.
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Summary:This book is both a study of the work of the Scottish writer, Kenneth White, in thought, travel writing and poetry, and an application of one of White's main concepts, geopoetics, to Charles Doughty' Arabia Deserta. It is a largely forgotten fact that Doughty considered all his travels to be leading up to an ars poetica. Omar Bsaïthi's thesis is that Arabia Deserta is a superb example of geopoetics in action The result of the meeting of White and Doughty orchestrated by Bsaïthi is ...
Other form:Print version: Omar, Bsaithi. Land and mind. Newcastle : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2008 9781847184931