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English Language and Literature

American University in Cairo

Theses/Dissertations

2001

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A Study On The Functions Of Minimalism In Three Contemporary Dramatic Texts, Nevine Shoukry Dec 2001

A Study On The Functions Of Minimalism In Three Contemporary Dramatic Texts, Nevine Shoukry

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No abstract provided.


Autobiographical Fantasia: Kingston's The Woman Warrior And El Telmissany's Dunyazad, Marwa Mohammad Nur Eldin Ismail Elnaggar Jun 2001

Autobiographical Fantasia: Kingston's The Woman Warrior And El Telmissany's Dunyazad, Marwa Mohammad Nur Eldin Ismail Elnaggar

Archived Theses and Dissertations

The thesis analyzes the use of imagination in two autobiographical works by two women authors, a Chinese-American and an Egyptian-Arab, respectively: Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior, and May El Telmissany's Dunyazad. A definition of autobiography as a literary genre is explored through the critical debate between different scholars. In this debate, the fundamental nature of autobiography and its parameters are central issues. Several questions are posed-such as the degree of importance that truth has in determining how autobiographical a specific work is.

Both The Woman Warrior ( 1976) and Dunyazad ( 1997) are introduced

within the framework of this …


Lucius And Psyche, Daniele Stabellini May 2001

Lucius And Psyche, Daniele Stabellini

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No abstract provided.


Horace's 'Carpe Diem' In Modern Literature As An Application To Thornton Wilder's Plays, Our Town And The Matchmaker, Munira Essameddin Omar Wagdy May 2001

Horace's 'Carpe Diem' In Modern Literature As An Application To Thornton Wilder's Plays, Our Town And The Matchmaker, Munira Essameddin Omar Wagdy

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No abstract provided.


The Unbearable Lightness Of Oscar Wilde's "Fan", Lamya Fouad Ramadan Mar 2001

The Unbearable Lightness Of Oscar Wilde's "Fan", Lamya Fouad Ramadan

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No abstract provided.


Architectural Space And Narrative Structure In "The Dark Child" And "A Sister To Sheherazade", Mona Nazar Hussein Abdelaziz Jan 2001

Architectural Space And Narrative Structure In "The Dark Child" And "A Sister To Sheherazade", Mona Nazar Hussein Abdelaziz

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No abstract provided.