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The Controversy Of Teaching World Literature And The Importance Of Translation In The Field Of English Studies, Samirah Almutairi
The Controversy Of Teaching World Literature And The Importance Of Translation In The Field Of English Studies, Samirah Almutairi
English Faculty Publications
For literary texts to be taught in World Literature courses in the Departments of English Literature, they must be translated into English as a general rule. Some scholars advocate for translating literary texts, and others believe that translation as a methodology does not do justice to these texts. This study aims to lay out the arguments for each position and evaluate them. The significance of this study is to show that World Literature remains an essential field and to highlight the importance of translation. This study questions the modes and purpose of translating literary texts. The result of this study …
Poor, Pitiful Monsters From Homer To Borges, Robin Mcallister
Poor, Pitiful Monsters From Homer To Borges, Robin Mcallister
English Faculty Publications
This article reviews famous monsters in Western literature that reveal a hidden humanity or affinity with the hero that elicits compassion or emphasizes their bestiality in surprising ways. Their monstrosity is often a distorted mirror image of the hero’s humanity. Shakespeare’s Caliban is a famous example of the affinity between monster and protagonist. Homer’s Polyphemus, the first monster in Western tradition establishes certain traits that persist through later literature: lawless, barbarian, cannibal, and giant. Polyphemus hates men, but loves his old ram. Grendel, Grendel’s mother, and the dragon in Beowulf are giants, lawless, cannibals. The dragon Beowulf dies fighting anticipates …
In Praise Of The Saints: Introducing Medieval Hagiography Into The British Literature Survey, John P. Sexton
In Praise Of The Saints: Introducing Medieval Hagiography Into The British Literature Survey, John P. Sexton
English Faculty Publications
Despite increased interest in hagiographic writing among scholars of early literature in the last few decades, serious study of saints’ lives in the undergraduate classroom remains rare. To some degree, this is a result of poor representation in the leading anthologies,[1]but another contributing factor has been the perception of a distinction between hagiographic and other medieval writing it terms of genre or of literary value. Such distinctions, however, are modern inventions, and do not accurately reflect the medieval reader or writer’s view. Nor is the inclusion of the literature alongside the expected “great works” difficult or jarring; a …
Homer, 1715-1996 - Homer; Critical Assessments By Irene J. F. Dejong (Review), Kostas Myrsiades
Homer, 1715-1996 - Homer; Critical Assessments By Irene J. F. Dejong (Review), Kostas Myrsiades
English Faculty Publications
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Aristotle's Critique Of Mimesis: The Romantic Prelude, Terryl Givens
Aristotle's Critique Of Mimesis: The Romantic Prelude, Terryl Givens
English Faculty Publications
The most notable element of Plato's theory of art, or at least the most memorable, is his censorship of poetry from the ideal state (Republic III: 398; X: 607). However Plato's argument is construed, it is enlightening to note the domestication to which it is invariably subjected. Since Aristotle's theory is eminently more amenable to our contemporary appreciation for art, and, in one form or another, is judged more central to the history of Western literature, Plato's attack is dispensed with after due characterization as ironic, unmanageably ambiguous, valid only in a most limited context, or excusable in the light …
The Psychomachia By Marcus Aurelius Prudentius, Translated From Latin With An Introduction, Peter Johnson
The Psychomachia By Marcus Aurelius Prudentius, Translated From Latin With An Introduction, Peter Johnson
English Faculty Publications
This Masters thesis is an introduction to and prose translation of Prudentius’s Psychomachia. In the introduction, besides discussing personification allegory, I suggest that the synthesis of classical and Christian elements in the Psychomachia is a response to the historical phenomena of the times. The conflict between the Christian and pagan elements is important because it mirrors the action of the poem itself, in which the soul tries to cope with the presence of two battling opposite forces: the Virtues and the Vices. This internalized soul conflict is a personalized representation of 4th Century Church history, during which intellectuals …
A Bibliographical Guide To Teaching The Homeric Epics In College Courses, Kostas Myrsiades
A Bibliographical Guide To Teaching The Homeric Epics In College Courses, Kostas Myrsiades
English Faculty Publications
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