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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Middle Eastern literature"”.
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Orientalism and its Challenges: Feminist Critiques of Orientalist Knowledge Production
… of Eurocentric knowledge and power relations in literature and representation? This dissertation grapples with a number of feminist critiques of Orientalism in order to theorize notions of female agency and problematize depictions of passivity, sexuality and dominant gendered systems. …
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History and Hope: The Agrarian Wisdom of Isaiah 28–35
… deserves to be studied as a body of theological literature regardless of the multiplicity of authorial contexts from which it derives. Overcoming Isaiah’s well-established diachronic fragmentation, however, has proven no straightforward task; readers have often and understandably resorted to …
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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 …
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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 Orientalism of Edgar Allan Poe: The Allure of the Middle East in Al-Aaraaf
… of Oriental exoticism, Qur'anic imagery, Middle Eastern geography, ancient cities, local traditions, and intertextual relationships. The body of the thesis is mainly made up of three parts. The first part gives a brief survey of the definition of Orientalism and the role it played in the …
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Searching for the Islamic Episteme: The Status of Historical Information in Medieval Middle-Eastern Anthological Writing
… audience, and is still in print in contemporary Middle Eastern societies. In contrast, Rāwandī’s miscellany is a personalized curriculum of Great Seljuq politics and courtly etiquette, and thus became obsolete in the sixteenth century. The biographical data on their authors offer the …
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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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"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 …