Land and mind
Subtitle: Kenneth White's geopoetics in the Arabian context
By: by Bsaithi Omar.
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Pub.
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Newcastle
Language: eng
Number of pages: 196
ISBN-13: 9781847184931
Subjects: White, Kenneth, -- 1936- -- Criticism and interpretation; Doughty, Charles Montagu, -- 1843-1926; Doughty, Charles Montagu, -- 1843-1926 -- Travel -- Arabian Peninsula; Human ecology in literature; Nature in literature; Geography in literature
Description: 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 not only the reinterpretation of an English classic and perhaps a renewal of Arab studies, it is an introduction, via the writings of Kenneth White, to a regrounded field of culture. 
  In his presentation of geopoetics and intellectual nomadism, Bsaithi draws attention both to the nature of discontent felt in the Western culture and civilization in the postmodern era, and to the possible forms of encounter between figures highly representative of the Western mind, searching for the “ways out”, and other cultural spaces.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [187]-189).

                                          Table of Contents
   Foreword                                                                                  p.4
  Introduction                                                                         p.5 
     PART ONE     The  Theory and Practice of Geopoetics                 
       Chapter One      The Way to a New Unity                                p.13
       Chapter Two      A Quiet Apocalypse :The Far West Monk        p.25
       Chapter Three    Nomadic Thought                                          p.43
       Chapter Four    The Plateau of the Albatross                           p.64 
       Chapter Five      At the Far Edge of Literature                                p.89 

 PART TWO           Geopoetics in the Arabian Context         
       Chapter One    The Genesis of a Journey                                 p.126
       Chapter Two   Kenneth White’s Geopoetics in Doughty’s Arabia   
                              Deserta
                                      1 - Approaching the Land                              p.156
                                   2 – Thinking the Land                                   p.179 
                                   3 – A Language for the Land                         p.205

Conclusion                                                                                p.233
                                                                                     
 Bibliography                                                                            p .239                                                          

Appendix               Kenneth White: A Biographical Sketch             p.243