...Michael Ragussis Copyright © 1975 by Duke University Press 1975 LANGUAGE AND METAMORPHOSIS IN WORDSWORTH’S ARAB DREAM By MICHAELRAGUSSIS Book 5 of The Prelude is usually approached with some hesitation. It seems...

...Rebecca Carol Johnson; Richard Maxwell; Katie Trumpener University of Washington 2007 Rebecca Carol Johnson is a doctoral candidate in comparative literature at Yale University. Her research focuses on the development of Arabic and European novels as an inquiry into the global...

...Terri DeYoung [email protected] Stranger Fictions: A History of the Novel in Arabic Translation . By Rebecca C. Johnson . Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press , 2020 . xiii + 270 pp. Copyright © 2023 by University of Washington 2023 This judicious and perceptive critical...

... fundamental in literary study, is not one of Ixupin’s minor virtues but the occasion of a great and Joyful dcbt. Peter Haidrr, University of California, I,os Angeles Gteat learning, a subtle sense for the many layered language of Arabic poetry, and, most of all...

...Muhsin J. al-Musawi University of Washington 2007 Muhsin J. al-Musawi is professor of Arabic studies at Columbia University. His recent books include Anglo-Orient (2000), The Postcolonial Arabic Novel: Debating Ambivalence (2003), Arabic Poetry: Trajectories of Modernity...

...Haifa Saud Alfaisal Abstract In 1902 Rūḥī al-Khālidī produced what may be the first modern work of comparative criticism in Arabic. In his History of the Science of Literature , Khālidī (1864–1913), a Palestinian polyglot, used the discourse of literary criticism to develop a modern understanding...

...” discourse. In key works shaping nineteenth-century political and psychological identifications with Africa, Black Atlantic writers erased the multistoried hybridity of a mixed Muslim, Arab, and “native” West Africa. To imagine a pan-African solidarity figured around nation building on a primitive frontier...

... formations— poésie mondiale in French, poesía mundial in Spanish, and world poetry in English—but also highlights kindred trajectories in non-Western languages, such as sheʿr-e jahān in Persian and shiʿr fi al-ʿalam in Arabic. Corroborating Édouard Glissant’s claim that “the amassing of commonplaces...

... tradition” and created an Egyptian play with unique charac- teristics, it was based on Western models. Furthermore, they have dis- agreed over the play’s contribution to the revolutionary discourse that swept the Arab world in the 1950s and 1960s: some have insisted that it was “progressive...

... on the Palestinian novel. © 2014 by University of Washington 2014 References Abu-Deeb Kamal . 1988 . “ Cultural Creation in a Fragmented Society .” In The Next Arab Decade: Alternative Futures , edited by Sharabi Hisham , 160 – 81 . Boulder, CO : Westview . Abu-Matar Ahmad...

...Mohamed-Salah Omri © 2005 University of Washington 2005 Mohamed-Salah Omri teaches Arabic and Mediterranean studies at the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies and directs the Centre for Mediterranean Studies at the University of Exeter. He is editor, with Abdeljalil Temimi...

... friend, cites as proof of Kafka’s positive in- terest in the Jewish spiritual renaissance the fact that Kafka published two short stories-“ Jackals and Arabs” and “A Report”-in Martin Buber’s pro-Zionist periodical Der Jude. At the same time, Brod does not use the content of the stories...

... of their relationship to the locale and its inhabitants.6 Furthermore, as Pratt points out, the sullenness of the Arabs and the almost systematic ostracismJanine and her husband suffer in the colonized locale antic- ipate the political explosion soon to come (p. 168). Janine may have dreamed of palm trees...

... of Ovid in the development of medieval love poetry and then devotes several pages to the prob- ability of Arabic influence on the development of courtly love in southern France. His explanation is briefly as follows : The Moorish kings in eleventh-century Spain greatly encouraged literature, espe...

... the largest office equipment and stationery store in the Middle East” (91). The regional representative for Royal office machinery, among other things, the elder Said pioneered the introduction of an Arabic typewriter. Said has been a tireless defender of the downtrodden and the oppressed, but his own youth...

... in Arabic script (aljamiado literature).7 Statutes regarding blood purity barred the 4 Fredric Jameson, The Political Unconscious: Narrative as a Socially Symbolic Act (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1981), 158. 5 Abencerraje y la hermosa Jarifa, written anonymously between...

.... The excess of humiliation is obliteration. There is an interesting passage toward the end of the first volume which we may read as a commentary on the incident at Mediin Siilih. An Arab has com- mitted suicide, a rare act among Mohammedans. Doughty interjects : In the ferment of our civil...

..., that compose the total world of human power-mathematics on the one hand, poetry on the other” (p. 97). Although the Arab in the dream holds the “twofold treasure” in “opposite” hands (79), the stone and the shell 19 Wordsworth Collection, MS. Eng. 880, Houghton Library, Harvard University...

... amalgam of sublimity and poverty in Spanish literature is a result of the Latin and Arabic elements that charac- terize the Spanish language, according to Pierre Claude Victor Boiste’s Dictionnaire de géographie universelle (1806). I was led to the entry on Spain by the passage quoted in Léon...

... a critical vehicle for reinterpreting North Indian dialects along religious lines, Arab-Islamic or Sanskritic-Hindu. Exemplifying the artificial origins and the extended effects of Fort William College and its literary program is Mir Amman’s Bāġh-o Bahār ( The Garden and the Spring , 1804), the story...