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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 274
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Cairo Studies in English
Author: Cairo University and the Making of Modern Egypt
Author: Donald Malcolm ReidPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521894333
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Cairo University has been crucially important in shaping the national life of modern Egypt. In this history, Professor Reid explains the university's part in the national quest for independence from Britain, in the perennial tension between secular and religious world-views, and in the push for a more egalitarian society.
Johnson, Rasselas, and the Choice of Criticism
Author: Edward TomarkenPublisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 081318570X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
Although Rasselas has received more critical commentary than almost any other work by Samuel Johnson, Edward Tomarken's book is the first full length study to focus on his tale of the Prince of Abyssinia. This anomaly arises, as Tomarken shows, because Rasselas has remained resistant to the customary critical approaches of the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries, consistently eliciting new kinds of insights and raising new sorts of problems. Tomarken' s contribution is a new methodology to explain this phenomenon. He sees Johnson's early writings, London and Irene, as instances of the writer trying with only partial success to achieve what he first realized in The Vanity of Human Wishes, a means of permitting literary form to refer to conduct. Later works, such as The Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland, are viewed as further developments of this method, which achieved its fullest expression in Rasselas and the Life of Pope. Such a reading of Johnson develops an aesthetic that operates on the margins between the literary and the extra-literary. Although Johnson's own critical view was unable to accommodate such a position, Tomarken shows that in practice he moved toward it by a process of trial and error manifest in his poetry and narratives. When raised to the level of critical method, this approach goes beyond the assumptions not only of Johnson's day but also of our own. Tomarken's theoretical coda demonstrates how the choices of current critical theory, like those in the marriage debate in Rasselas, can be understood to interact with one another. Specifically, he proposes a dialectical relationship for two approaches hermeneutics and structuralism-usually seen as opposed to one another. This innovative study will interest not only Johnson scholars but all those concerned with critical theory.
From Arabye to Engelond
Author: A. E. Christa CanitzPublisher: University of Ottawa Press
ISBN: 0776615955
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
This collection of essays explores the dialogue between Arabic and European cultures during the medieval period starting from the year 700. Using critical approaches the contributors examine a variety of thematic and cultural concerns.
Shakespeare Studies
Author: Susan ZimmermanPublisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN: 0838643175
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 301
Book Description
The Oxford Handbook of Arab Novelistic Traditions
Author: Waïl S. HassanPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199349797
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 777
Book Description
The Oxford Handbook of Arab Novelistic Traditions encompasses the genesis of the Arabic novel in the second half of the nineteenth century and its development to the present in every Arab country, as well as Arab immigrant writing in many languages around the world.
Fighting Songs and Warring Words
Author: Brian MurdochPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134969058
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 303
Book Description
The accepted canon of war poetry usually includes only those underlining patriotic or nationalistic views. This study opens up the view of war poetry with the inclusion of such material as Nazi poetry and song, and the poetry of the atomic bomb.
annual bibliograghy of english language and literature
Author: John Dryden
Author: David J. LattPublisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 0816658129
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 217
Book Description
John Dryden was first published in 1976. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. This annotated bibliography represents a comprehensive updating of Samuel Holt Monk's earlier work, also published by the University of Minnesota Press, John Dryden: A List of Critical Studies Published from 1895 to 1948 (out of print). Since the publication of that earlier bibliography, the number of studies devoted to Dryden has more than tripled, and thus this new bibliography is essential for scholars of Dryden or related aspects of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century English literature. This volume contains four times as many entries as the earlier volume, and there is an extensive introduction by Professor Latt which surveys the historical shifts in critical opinion of Dryden. The new volume incorporates all of the listings contained in the first one. The entries include works that focus directly on Dryden, those that discuss Dryden's works in the context of other writers, and those that investigate material of general importance to Dryden studies. Dissertations from American, German, English, and French universities are included. Complete bibliographic information is provided for virtually every entry. The listings are grouped in nine categories, and there is an additional section which covers festschriften and other collections of essays. Works of exceptional value and those which develop new points of view are so designated. The publishing history of each item is included along with the standard bibliographic information. The index includes topical as well as author entries.
English Renaissance Rhetoric and Poetics
Author: Heinrich F PlettPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004617183
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
This comprehensive bibliography lists some 500 source texts published in the British Isles or abroad from 1479 to 1660 and more than 2,000 works of secondary literature from 1900 to the present.