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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Literature, Middle Eastern"”.
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"Artemidorus Arabus: Toward a New Edition of the ""Onirocritica"""
1963 marked the publication of a new edition by Roger Pack of Artemidorus' Onirocritica. The most recent edition had been that of Rudolph Hercher, produced almost a century earlier. Nevertheless, as no new witnesses had been discovered since then, Pack felt constrained in his preface to justify at …
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Two Plays by Tawfiq Al-Hakim in Translation, With a Critical Introduction (Arabic)
Tawfiq Al-Hakim is a major Arabic dramatist whose career extends over a span of sixty years. Although his plays have been translated and performed in many European countries, Al-Hakim has no recognition in the English speaking theatre. Very few translations of his plays in English are available, …
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Two Plays by the Islamic Dramatist, Ali Ahmad Bakathir Translated Into English With Critical Commentary
… contributed influentially to modern Arabic literature in several literary genres; drama, poetry, and the novel. In addition to his great sum of poetry, he wrote more than sixty plays, six novels, many one-act plays and short stories. Bakathir's study of English literature, and of Shakespeare …
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Joyce Mansour's poetics: A discourse of plurality by a second-generation surrealist poet
… force. Georges Bataille's study of Eroticism in literature and surrealism contributes to our study. This chapter also recognizes Mansour's use of Egyptian myths as one of the pillar of her narrative structure. It will show that the poet favors a language of self-regeneration in which the …
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The Impact of The Absurd on Modern Arabic Literature: A Study of the Influence of Camus, Ionesco and Beckett (Theater, Ikhlasi, Hakim, Idris, Mahfuz)
One of the most problematic issues in Arabic literature has been the opposition between tajd(')id or innovation, and the two principles which have traditionally governed Arabic literature: turath, or heritage, and asala, roots. Tajd(')id has gradually asserted its own as Arabic literature has …
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The Persian ney: A study of the instrument and its musical style
In view of the fact that the Ney-e Haftband is the only wind tradition in classical Persian music, the lack of attention paid to it in previous scholarly studies is rather surprising. This dissertation is a study of the Persian ney and its music as it emerged in the city of Esfehan during the …
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Contemporary Egyptian music
… branch of the overall Egyptian music domain and Middle Eastern music as a whole. The music presented in this category is composed between 1932 until 1995, when this research was completed. The composers in focus, those who are alive and active today in Egypt, are trained in Egyptian Western-style …
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"The image of Satan in Rumi's ""Mathnawi"", Dante's ""Divine Comedy"" and Milton's ""Paradise Lost"""
… type in the works of three major poets of world literature: Rumi (1207-1273), Dante (1265-1321) and Milton (1608-1674). The common ground for comparison is their response to the question of dualism between good and evil. The multifaceted figure of Satan in these works makes him an interesting …
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When the Poet Is a Stranger: Poetry and Agency in Tagore, Walcott, and Darwish
<p>ABSTRACT</p><p>This study is concerned with the process of the making of a postcolonial poet persona where the poet is addressing multiple audiences and is trying to speak for, and speak to, multiple constituencies through poetry. The poets examined here, Rabindranath Tagore, Derek Walcott, and …
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Nasser in the Egyptian Imaginary
… Gamal `Abdel Nasser (1918-1970) in Egyptian literature and film. It focuses on how the historical character of Nasser has emerged in the Egyptian imaginary--novel, short stories, autobiographies, and films. Rather than engaging in historical arguments about the deeds and legacy of Nasser, my …
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The Political Aesthetic of the Medieval Persian Prison Poem, 1100-1200
… discursive elevation of poetry that is Persian literature's greatest contribution to world literature. Concomitantly with investigating the twelfth-century aesthetics of incarceration, this dissertation documents how twelfth-century Persian poetry was transformed by idioms of literary knowledge …