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An Arab Perspective on Jonathan Swift

Author : Samira al-Khawaldeh
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527504654
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (275 download)

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Download or read book An Arab Perspective on Jonathan Swift written by Samira al-Khawaldeh and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2023-06-20 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do young scholars from the Arab world interact with English literature? Is literature relevant to their life? Can it help shape their reality? Is this affiliation new, or is there a pattern? This book poses some answers to these questions and more; it is ideal for university students and young intellectuals who seek further insight into world literature and literary theory. As this book shows, strong and courageous voices from the past, voices that transcend time and space, like Swift’s, must remain alive in the departments of English and world literature in this wasteland of globalization - a world dominated by cold science, materialism, and conflict. There is need for Swift to haunt us, for his ghost to wake us to the truth. Anarchist, anti-colonialist, nay-sayer, champion of the oppressed and conscious of the plight of women, Swift is the ultimate “therapeutic ironist”; what more can a pen do?

Arab Intellectuals and American Power

Author : M.D. Walhout
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0755634152
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (556 download)

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Download or read book Arab Intellectuals and American Power written by M.D. Walhout and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-10-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edward Said, the famous Palestinian American scholar and activist, was one of the twentieth century's most iconic public intellectuals, whose pioneering and – to some – controversial work on Orientalism shaped Middle Eastern and postcolonial studies and beyond. But how exactly did he arrive at his famous maxim to 'speak truth to power'? This dual biographical study examines the lives of Edward Said and the eminent Lebanese philosopher and diplomat Charles Malik, a distant relative 30 years his senior whom Said knew from childhood as “Uncle Charles.” To Said, Malik was no ordinary relative; in his memoir, he called Malik “the great negative intellectual lesson of my life”, and was to describe him as “an ideal as I was growing up” only to later claim Malik “went through an ugly transformation that I could never come to terms with”. M.D. Walhout charts the development of these two remarkable figures, reconstructing in the process the way in which American power in the Middle East came to have a defining effect on Arab intellectuals in the twentieth century. Exploring issues of religion and nationalism, Walhout shows how Said came to reject much of what Malik stood for: Christian faith, hardline anti-Communism and the benign nature of American power. He argues that the example of Malik was instrumental in the development of Said's later belief that the true vocation of the intellectual was not to compromise with power, but to resist it.

Sexuality in the Arab World

Author : Samir Khalaf
Publisher : Saqi
ISBN 13 : 0863564879
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (635 download)

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Download or read book Sexuality in the Arab World written by Samir Khalaf and published by Saqi. This book was released on 2014-05-13 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arab cultural discourse has been slow to respond to changing sexual behaviour. The contributors to this collection pick up the slack, ranging across such disciplines as literature, history, sociology and psychology. Is Damascus the 'chastity capital' of the Middle East, where perceptions of wealth and class fuel female rivalries? How do gay men cruise in Beirut? How do young women in Tunis cope with both social pressures to become thin and family pressures to gain weight? What do Lebanese creative-writing students write about sexual practices versus public behaviour? The fresh, compelling research topi covered include masculinity and migration; colonialism and sexual health; fantasy and violence; and domestic workers and sexual tensions. 'Other people's sex lives have always been a source of fascination, and nowhere more so than in the Middle East ... Ground-breaking.' New Statesman

The Arab of the Future 3

Author : Riad Sattouf
Publisher : Metropolitan Books
ISBN 13 : 1250216672
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book The Arab of the Future 3 written by Riad Sattouf and published by Metropolitan Books. This book was released on 2018-08-07 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the third installment of the acclaimed series, the Sattouf family begins to implode under the pressure of Hafez al-Assad's regime and the suffocation of their rural Syrian village. The Arab of the Future is the widely acclaimed, internationally bestselling graphic memoir that tells the story of Riad Sattouf’s peripatetic childhood in the Middle East. In the first volume, which covers the years 1978–1984, his family moves between rural France, Libya, and Syria, where they eventually settle in his father’s native village of Ter Maaleh, near Homs. The second volume recounts young Riad’s first year attending school in Syria (1984–1985), where he dedicates himself to becoming a true Syrian in the country of Hafez al-Assad. In this third volume, (1985–1987), Riad’s mother, fed up with the grinding reality of daily life in the village, decides she cannot take it any longer. When she resolves to move back to France, young Riad sees his father torn between his wife’s aspirations and the weight of family traditions.

Literary History

Author : Anders Pettersson
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 9783110189322
Total Pages : 1208 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (893 download)

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Download or read book Literary History written by Anders Pettersson and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2006 with total page 1208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Literary History: Towards a Global Perspective is a research project funded by the Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsrådet). Initiated in 1996 and launched in 1999, it aims at finding suitable methods and approaches for studying and analysing literature globally, emphasizing the comparative and intercultural aspect. Even though we nowadays have fast and easy access to any kind of information on literature and literary history, we encounter, more than ever, the difficulty of finding a credible overall perspective on world literary history. Until today, literary cultures and traditions have usually been studied separately, each field using its own principles and methods. Even the conceptual basis itself varies from section to section and the genre concepts employed are not mutually compatible. As a consequence, it is very difficult, if not impossible, for the interested layperson as well as for the professional student, to gain a clear and fair perspective both on the literary traditions of other peoples and on one's own traditions. The project can be considered as a contribution to gradually removing this problem and helping to gain a better understanding of literature and literary history by means of a concerted empirical research and deeper conceptual reflection. The contributions to the four volumes are written in English by specialists from a large number of disciplines, primarily from the fields of comparative literature, Oriental studies and African studies in Sweden. All of the literary texts discussed in the articles are in the original language. Each one of the four volumes is devoted to a special research topic.

Eastward of Good Hope

Author : Dane A. Morrison
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 142144237X
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)

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Download or read book Eastward of Good Hope written by Dane A. Morrison and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2021-11-30 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did news from the East—carried in ship logs and mariners' reports, journals, and correspondence—shape early Americans' understanding of the world as a map of dangerous and incoherent sites? Winner of the John Lyman Book Award by the North American Society for Oceanic History Freed from restrictions of British mercantilism in the years following the War of Independence, Yankee merchants embarked on numerous voyages of commerce and discovery into distant seas. Through the news from the East, carried in mariners' reports, ship logs, journals, and correspondence, Americans at home imagined the world as a map of dangerous and deranged places. This was a world that was profoundly disordered, hobbled by tyranny and oppression or steeped in chaos and anarchy, often deadly, always uncertain, unpredictable, and unstable, yet amenable to American influence. Focusing on four representative arenas—the Ottoman Empire, China, India, and the Great South Sea (collectively, the East Indies, Oceana, and the American continent's Northwest coast)—Eastward of Good Hope recasts the relationship between America and the world by examining the early years of the republic, when its national character was particularly pliable and its foundational posture in the world was forming. Drawing on recent scholarship in global ethnohistory, Dane A. Morrison recounts how reports of cannibal encounters, shipboard massacres, shipwrecks, tropical fever, and other tragedies in distant seas led Americans to imagine each region as a distinct set of threats to their republic. He also demonstrates how the concept of justification through self-doubt allowed for aggressive expansionism and for the foundations of imperialism to develop. Morrison reconsiders American ideas about the world through three questions: How did British Americans imagine the world before independence allowed them to travel "Eastward of Good Hope"? What were the signal encounters that filled the public sphere in their early years of global encounter? And finally, how did Americans' contacts with other peoples inflect their ideas about the world and their place in it? Written in a lively, engaging style, Eastward of Good Hope will appeal to scholars and the general public alike.

Gulliver's Travels

Author : Jonathan Swift
Publisher : Echo Library
ISBN 13 : 9781603037228
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (372 download)

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Download or read book Gulliver's Travels written by Jonathan Swift and published by Echo Library. This book was released on 2011-08-01 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Milton in the Arab-Muslim World

Author : Islam Issa
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1317095928
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Milton in the Arab-Muslim World written by Islam Issa and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2016-10-14 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first full-length study of the reception of John Milton’s (1608-74) writings in the Arab-Muslim world, this book examines the responses of Arab-Muslim readers to Milton’s works, and in particular, to his epic poem: Paradise Lost. It contributes to knowledge of the history, development, and ways in which early modern writings are read and understood by Muslims. By mapping the literary and more broadly cultural consequences of the censure, translation and abridgement of Milton’s works in the Arab-Muslim world, this book analyses the diverse ways in which Arab-Muslims read and understand a range of literary and religious aspects of Milton’s writing in light of cultural, theological, socio-political, linguistic and translational issues. After providing an overview of the presence of Milton and his works in the Arab world, each chapter sheds light on how cultural and translational issues shape the ways in which Arab-Muslim readers perceive and understand the characters and motifs of Paradise Lost. Chapters outline the ways in which the figures are currently understood in Milton scholarship, before exploring how they fit into the narrative drama and theology of the poem, and their position in Islamic creed and Arab-Muslim culture. Concurrently, each chapter examines the poem’s subject matter in detail, placing particular emphasis on matters of linguistic, theological and cultural translation and accommodation. Chapter conclusions not only summarise the patterns and potentialities of reception, but point towards the practical functions of Arab-Muslim responses to Milton’s writing and their contribution to the formation of social ideas.

Notes and Queries

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 582 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (117 download)

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Download or read book Notes and Queries written by and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Truth About the Irish

Author : Terry Eagleton
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1466863234
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book The Truth About the Irish written by Terry Eagleton and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2014-01-28 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you're looking for a field guide to leprechauns, The Truth About the Irish is not the book for you. But if you can handle a frank and funny look into the minds and hearts of Irish people, you've been touched by that fabled Irish luck. Covering all things Irish from Blarney to Yeats, renowned literary and cultural critic Terry Eagleton separates the myths from the reality with his priceless blend of sidesplitting humor, caustic commentary, and the honest lowdown on the beloved and bewildering country of Ireland.

Variations on Night and Day

Author : Abdelrahman Munif
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 0679755519
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (797 download)

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Download or read book Variations on Night and Day written by Abdelrahman Munif and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 1994-11-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Full of Machiavellian intrigue and searing political satire, Variations on Night and Day, the final volume of Munif's landmark Cities of Salt trilogy, chronicles the creation of a Persian Gulf nation by a corrupt Arab monarch and conniving British empire builders.

National Union Catalog

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 664 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book National Union Catalog written by and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes entries for maps and atlases.

The Outlook

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 880 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book The Outlook written by and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 880 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Adventure Collection. 10 Masterpieces You Have to Read Before You Die. Illustrated

Author : Jonathan Swift
Publisher : Strelbytskyy Multimedia Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 4077 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Adventure Collection. 10 Masterpieces You Have to Read Before You Die. Illustrated written by Jonathan Swift and published by Strelbytskyy Multimedia Publishing. This book was released on 2021-01-08 with total page 4077 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adventure! Real-life adventures from history and fictitious adventures inspired by what could be! Journeys to captivate your mind, enthrall your spirit, and get the blood moving in your veins! This collection holds the best time-tested tales of adventure that have been read and reread by millions of readers throughout the ages. Beware! By opening this book, you risk immersing yourself in Robinson Crusoe’s incredible struggle to survive after being shipwrecked on a desert island; or discovering the witty and brave exploits of Robin Hood; or submerging yourself with the Nautilus on its underwater voyage. You might even find yourself answering the ancient call of your ancestors from a snowy ridge deep in the Yukon. Are you ready to brave the adventure? This collection includes: Daniel Defoe - Robinson Crusoe Howard Pyle - The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood Jonathan Swift - Gulliver’s Travels Jules Verne - A Journey to the Center of the Earth Jules Verne - Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea Mark Twain - The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Mark Twain - Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Robert Louis Stevenson - Treasure Island Rudyard Kipling - The Jungle Book Jack London - White Fang

The Book Review Digest

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1940 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Book Review Digest written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 1940 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Patricians, Professors, and Public Schools

Author : Allan Stanley Horlick
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9789004100541
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Patricians, Professors, and Public Schools written by Allan Stanley Horlick and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1994 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a new interpretation of late nineteenth and early twentieth century educational policy in the United States. Chapter-length studies of leading reformers argue that their reservations about economic growth best explain the changes they promoted.

Travel Fact and Travel Fiction

Author : Z. R. W. M. von Martels
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9789004101128
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Travel Fact and Travel Fiction written by Z. R. W. M. von Martels and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1994 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Travel Fact and Travel Fiction" contains 18 articles by different authors on important examples of travel writing from Classical Antiquity (Herodotus) until the first half of the nineteenth century. Discussed are among others Herodotus, Egeria, Rubruck, Marco Polo, Columbus, Joachim Du Bellay, Busbequius, Gryphius, Goethe and Dickens. Central themes are fiction, literary tradition, scholarly discovery and observation.