The dune's twisted edge : journeys in the Levant / Gabriel Levin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Levin, Gabriel, 1948- author.

Standardized Title:

Essays. Selections (2013)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Essays.

Middle Eastern poetry.

Middle East--Description and travel.

Middle East.

Middle Easterners.

Physical Description:

xvi, 194 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2013.

Summary:

"Part travelogue, part literary criticism, this book brings together six interlinked essays that probe the physical, cultural, and imaginative geography of the eastern seaboard of the Levant and its deserts. Its essay evolves out of the author's own travels through a certain region: the Judean desert extending to the Dead Sea, Wadi Rumm south of Petra, the Negev of modern-day Israel, the Galilee, the Arabian desert in which the great pre-Islamic poets once roamed. When the author is not encountering other presences, such as the Bedouin and writers from the distant and near past, he finds himself stumbling over the physical traces of vanished civilizations."--publisher.

Contents:

Preface : all things Levantine

Seeking a poetics of the Fertile Crescent

Hezekiah's tunnel

Who keened over the bones of dead encampments

Notes from Wadi Rumm

Galilean centos.

Notes:

Collection of previously published essays.

Includes bibliographical references.

Contains:

Contains: Levin, Gabriel, 1948- Seeking a poetics of the Fertile Crescent.

Contains: Levin, Gabriel, 1948- Hezekiah's tunnel.

Contains: Levin, Gabriel, 1948- Who keened over the bones of dead encampments.

Contains: Levin, Gabriel, 1948- Notes from Wadi Rumm.

Contains: Levin, Gabriel, 1948- Galilean centos.

ISBN:

9780226923673

0226923673

OCLC:

781556004