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The Dialectic Relationship Between The Ancient Poetic Discourse And The Authority Of Cultural Reference (Doxa) Until The End Of The Abbasid Era (Selected Poems), Laila Sha’Aban Jul 2024

The Dialectic Relationship Between The Ancient Poetic Discourse And The Authority Of Cultural Reference (Doxa) Until The End Of The Abbasid Era (Selected Poems), Laila Sha’Aban

Journal of the Arab American University مجلة الجامعة العربية الامريكية للبحوث

The paper studied the relationship between the authority of cultural reference - as an expressive and artistic value – and the authority of the ego and their influence on the formation of the poetic discourse. Generally speaking, most of the Arab poetry represented the values of the group and consequently was subjected to its authority and rules. Therefore, it was impossible to get detached from the group’s authority, or else you will be regarded as rebellious. That values and cultural conflicts had two approaches: The positive conflict was imposed as a result of the cultural transformations like the conflict between …


The Politics Of Self-Representation In Abdelmajid Benjelloun’S Novel In Childhood : An Ambivalent And Displaced Morrocan « Self », Azize Kour Jun 2021

The Politics Of Self-Representation In Abdelmajid Benjelloun’S Novel In Childhood : An Ambivalent And Displaced Morrocan « Self », Azize Kour

Dirassat

This article examines the politics of Moroccan cultural self- representation from a novelistic perspective. It attempts to foreground the ambivalent standpoint that many Moroccan novelists evince in imag (in) ing Moroccan cultural identity. A hybrid approach to the Self/ Other dialectic comes into play in this endeavour at self-definition. Importantly, this article tries to outline Moroccan self-representation from gendered, spatial and national perspectives. It, therefore, seeks to answer the following questions: How does Abdelmajid Benjelloun's autobiographical novel In Childhood represent Moroccan identity and culture? Is its portrayal of Moroccaness supportive or critical of the Orientalist lenses that Morocco has been …


The Jordanian Novel In Postmodern Context, Hamed Alalamat May 2021

The Jordanian Novel In Postmodern Context, Hamed Alalamat

Graduate Theses and Dissertations

As the Jordanian culture is gradually impacted by the globalization process of late capitalism, this study argues that many Jordanian novels exhibit a number of postmodern characteristics, such as blurring boundaries and disrupting hierarchies, the use of pastiche as a compositional technique, formal fragmentation, and the weakness of utopian imagination. Adopting Fredric Jameson’s theory of postmodernism as a framework, the study explores ten Jordanian novels written between 1986 and 2016 to demonstrate that the modernization process and the cultural changes in the Arab world, in general, and in the Jordanian society, in particular, have increased the density of postmodern features …


Introduction: A Legacy Of Raised Expectations, Leif Stenberg, Christa Salamandra Aug 2015

Introduction: A Legacy Of Raised Expectations, Leif Stenberg, Christa Salamandra

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Identifying, Cultivating, And Utilizing Elementary Teacher Leaders, April Holder Dec 2014

Identifying, Cultivating, And Utilizing Elementary Teacher Leaders, April Holder

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The purpose of this qualitative study was to investigate how elementary principals identify, cultivate, and utilize teacher leaders within high-growth elementary schools. For the purpose of this study, high-growth schools are schools that surpassed the state average of high growth for the bottom 25% and top 75% in English/language arts and math for two consecutive years based on the Indiana Department of Education A-F Accountability Report Card. Through this qualitative study, the roles of the principals in three similar Indiana elementary schools were analyzed in regard to the commonalities of the identification of teacher leaders, cultivating talent and leadership, and …