The Poet and Daughter of the Sea: Animated Ships in Andalusian Arabic Poetry.
The Mediterranean Sea has stirred the imagination of Andalusian poets of the tenth and eleventh centuries. They wrote many poetic maritime scenes with lively details about sea and ships. Describing ships as camels ranging over the land is the central core-image of these scenes. The poets' perspectiv...
| Publicado en: | Al-Masaq: Journal of the Medieval Mediterranean Vol. 19; no. 2; pp. 121 - 131 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Sep2007
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