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Quelques Réflexions Sur Le Périple D'Hannon, Mohamed Mustapha Boudribila

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Some Thoughts on Hannon's Journey

Hannon's periple is considered, by some authors, as the birth certificate of the written history of the Marne. This observation is due to the almost total lack of written documents on the ancient Marne. Indeed, apart from the Libyan or Amazigh inscriptions and some indirect indications scattered throughout the ancient Greco-Latin and Egyptian works, we do not find any written documents on the ancient Marne. It is therefore very important to be interested in the document of Hannon's periple. However, this document raised and continues to raise several questions and interpretations that we will try …

Representation Of Terror And Terrorism In Two Arab Films: Paradise Now (2005) By Hany Abu-Assad And Horses Of God (2012) By Nabil Ayouch, Mustapha Hamil

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Middle Eastern violence and terrorism are not novel subjects in world cinema, especially American cinema. The Arab or Muslim other in these films is always presented as someone who epitomises a culture of violence, directed mostly against innocent civilians. Against the backdrop of Hollywood’s stereotypical representation of Middle-Easterners as advocate of indiscriminate terror and terrorism, Arab filmmakers have turned in recent years to the representation of terror and religious extremism. Paradise Now (Abu Assad 2005) and Horses of God (Ayouch 2012) address the controversial issue of suicide bombing with the same motivation: to examine the choice of suicide bombing within …

Looking Back, Or Re-Visioning: Contemporary American Jewish Poets On “Lot’S Wife”, Anat Koplowitz-Breier

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Although mentioned only twice in Genesis (19:17, 26), Lot’s wife has been a topic of much discussion amongst both traditional and modern commentators and exegetes. The traditional midrashim seek to explain why she chose to disregard the instructions she was given and the nature of her punishment. In doing so, they follow two principal directions, representing her a) negatively as a wicked sinner, a Sodomite who acted as such even before disobeying the divine decree not to look backwards—thus linking her disobedience with her intrinsic character (e.g., curious, greedy, inhospitable, faithless); or b) positively as a loving mother and daughter. …

Resisting Pacification: Locating Tension In G'Ebinyo Ogbowei's Poetry, Niyi Akingbe, Paul Ayodele Onanuga

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Where Are The Women?: An Ecofeminist Reading Of William Golding’S Lord Of The Flies, Hawk Chang

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The absence of female characters and their voices in William Golding’s Lord of the Flies (1954) has been previously examined. On the surface, this fiction focuses on the struggle and survival of a group of boys who are left alone on a Pacific island against the background of nuclear warfare. The only presence of women in the story seems to be the aunt via a boy’s narration. However, when approaching the fiction through the lens of ecofeminism, we can find a range of feminized entities which are metaphorically embodied in the natural surroundings of the secluded island. The boys’ interactions …

Vulgarity As Springboard For High Art—A Comparative Study Of Vladimir Nabokov And Qian Zhongshu’S Notions Of Vulgarity, Derong Cao

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The discussion of vulgarity features prominently in both Nabokov and Qian’s creative writing. In this essay, their notions of vulgarity will be compared and contrasted. Nabokov and Qian have surprisingly similar understandings of vulgarity. To be more specific, both identify pretense/ affectation and triteness/ mediocrity as its fundamental characteristics. Moreover, both authors believe that the quintessential feature of vulgarity lies in its downplay of individual consciousness. The two authors’ understandings of vulgarity also differ in major ways. Qian’s Fortress Besieged, though showing deep social and moral concerns, did not seem to suspect a direct causal link between vulgarity and …

Strange Genre-Related Loops In A Novel-Short Story: The Tension Between The Genres And Their Cultural Context, Orna Levin

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The goal of the current study was to examine the strange genre-related loops in the novel The Short Story Master, by Maya Arad (2009), through the tension between the two genres represented in the text and their cultural contexts. The plot of the novel tells of the professional and personal crisis of the master of the short story, who failed in his mission to write a novel. The text hints to the reader that the central conflict that moves the plot along is neither romantic nor existential, but rather genre-related, and thus the entire work is a manifestation of …

‘Convicted Of Patricide?’: Robert Frost’S Nationalism In The Eyes Of Contemporary Arab-American Women Writers, Eman K. Mukattash

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Given the culturally expansive nature of the American literary tradition of today, the question of the relevance of Robert Frost’s poetry to the poetry of contemporary Arab-American women writers is an issue worth digging into. Writing almost one hundred years ago does not make Frost’s poetry out of date. Frost’s poetry is as relevant to today’s America as it has been to the America of his days. And this can be ascribed to the multiplicity of perspectives he presents in his poetry as he examines crucial questions lying at the core of America’s “grand narrative of national development.” (Westover 2004: …

Le Hussard Sur Le Toit: Du Roman À L' Écran, Driss Aissaoui

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The Hussar on the Roof: from the Novel to the Screen

The Hussar on the Roof, afilm by Jean -Paul Rappeneau based on Giono's novel whichhas the same title, was well received when it was released on the screens in France in 1995. The majority of critics acclaimed the work of the French filmmaker; but the success is not unanimous.

Duras: Ecrire Ou Ne Pas Écrire, Lamia Benjelloun

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Duras: To write OR not to write

Marguerite Donnadieu, Marguerite Duras, Duras, Marguerite, M.D.: how to name it Secret or shameless, militant or narcissistic, sublime or pathetic: how to describe it?Singular and transgressive, like its author, Marguerite Duras's work arouses fascination or rejection, for some marked by austere demands, for others full of easy seductions. Rornanciere, playwright, director and scriptwriter of many films' ", the character of Marguerite Duras has profoundly marked the intellectual landscape of her time and often obscures or blurs the reading of her works. Bewitching and sometimes vaticinating, her own voice has well often covered up …

L'Étranger Dans Les Voix De Marrakech D'Elias Canetti Ou "L'Autre" C'Est "Moi", Abderrazzak El Abbadi

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The Stranger in The Voices of Marrakech by Elias CANETTI or "the other" Is "me"

This article reflectsthrills and unusual experiences of the French writers in Morocco during the period of the protectorate (1912 - 1956) through the prisms of politics and everyday life; constructing an ambivalentdiscourse: a discourse on the Other, the Moroccan, and another on oneself comforting and stimulating a spirit of emulation even in crisis at that time.

البعد الشرعي الإبداعي في سرديات ابن الموقت من خلال رحلته المراكشية, محمد الطوكي

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The Creative Legal Dimension in the Narrations of Ibn al-Muwaqit Through his Marrakech Journey

This article deals with defining the journey of Ibn Al-Muwaqit. It provides some narration references affecting his writing. The article also explains the strangeness and imaginativeness character of the journey and the accompanying legal hints related to it starting from its title.

Problems Of Classification And Translation Of Pun, Jeren Mizrabova

Scientific reports of Bukhara State University

Introduction. Many problems and tasks in the science of translation are still waiting to be solved. The issue of translation of the pun (word play) is also one of them. Although much research has been done in this field in foreign science to date, it has not yet been decided on the properties of a device like pun and it is acknowledged that there are different opinions about its etymology. Research methods. Research methodology driven by diversity the problems under consideration included various forms of analysis: descriptive - logical, contrastive, as well as proper translation. The translation method is a …

Real Life Description In Characterising Students’ Personage And Students’ Period In The World Literature, Nabiya Idrisovna Abdullayeva

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Introduction. The students have repeatedly acted as a real political force, participated in solving important social problems. It is obvious that university youth, who sometimes leave a significant mark in history, should become the object of comprehension in the works of literature. Real life is a phrase used originally in literature to distinguish between the real world and fictional or idealized worlds, and in acting to distinguish between performers and the characters they portray. The comparative study of the works of world figures analyzed in the article will have a positive impact on the development of our international literature and …

Mythical Thinking And Rational Spirit - An Interpretation Of Lu Xun’S “Old Tales Retold”, Wang Xiaoyu

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Introduction. The great creativity of the myth itself provides a specific way for literature to develop plots and express themes. As a special way of thinking, mythical thinking has become an important component of the writer's creative psychology, and the narrative language of myths is metaphorical and vivid. This article studies the mythical thinking and rational spirit reflected the works of the modern writers who use ancient myths in their writing. Special attention should be paid to Lu Xun's “Old Tales Retold”, a unique collection of novels. It helps to explore why Lu Xun has a special liking for ancient …

Ciudad, Movimiento Y Transformación: "23 Segundos" En Dos Tiempos, Mariana Pensa

South East Coastal Conference on Languages & Literatures (SECCLL)

En este trabajo se realiza una lectura del film uruguayo 23 Segundos (2014, dirigido por Dimitry Rudakov). Un punto de entrada al mismo nos remite a los conceptos de acción/inacción, desde donde la intriga toma cuerpo y comienza a formarse. A partir de esto, se focaliza en el personaje principal de Emiliano, y en su recorrido por Montevideo, recorrido que se transforma a lo largo de la película en una forma de adquisición de conocimiento sobre sí mismo y los demás. Esto lo lleva ultimamente a un cambio de vida, a la superación de la alienación y la rutina. Es …

2021 Seccll Conference Program, Seccll Conference

South East Coastal Conference on Languages & Literatures (SECCLL)

Conference program for the 2021 SECCLL.

Morgane Cadieu. Marcher Au Hasard : Clinamen Et Création Dans La Prose Du Xxe Siècle. Classiques Garnier, 2019., Jason C. Grant

Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature

Review of Morgane Cadieu. Marcher au hasard : Clinamen et création dans la prose du XX^e siècle. Classiques Garnier, 2019. 214 pp.

La Créativité Métaphorique En Amazigh, Mohamed Sguenfle

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Metophocric creativity in Amazigh

The concept of neology can be defined as an enrichment which affects a given language at different levels, phonological, morphological, syntactic and semantic, Semantic neology is a special case of polysemy; a new meaning for an already existing unit. This is a change which affects the meaning without a concurrent change in the signifying form of the lexeme.

Les Italiques Et Le Style Indirect Libre: Sur Le Chemin De La Parodie Intertextuelle, Sad Slamti

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Lethalics and the free indirect style: on the road to intertextual parody

Literary works would have a memory. Here is a postulate which would make us consider intertextuality as "a library where each trans / elm text. others which modify it. The author, to borrow an expression from Umberto Eco, should certainly "die so as not to interfere with the progress of his work" His death without his knowledge, since it can be buried even during his lifetime, is in any case a theoretical commitment which allows the dialogue between the texts to be enriched and to always make this …

L'Image De La Femme Occidentale Dans "Un Ami Viendra Vous Voir" (1967) Et "Mort Au Canada" (1975) De Driss Chraibi, Abderrahim Bentaibi

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The image of the western woman in "A Friend Will Come See You" (1967) and "Death in Canada" (1975) by Driss Chraibi

If the theme of the Arab woman is often treated by the Maghreb novelists of French language, that of the Western woman on the other hand occupies a derisory place, It is true that several Maghreb authors present the foreign woman, French in this case, in the role of a wife thanks to whom the Maghreb man feels adopted in some way by an enchanting West as evidenced by Ma f oi abode (1958) by Tunisian Hachemi Baccoucheou …

Élévation Note Sur M.Leftah, Hassan Wahbi

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If the beautiful is frightening in its threatening proximity according to certain philosophers, the frightening in turn accesses an order of value; the first by the radicalism of what it is in itself, by its effects of obsessive or exclusive fascination, the second by what it undergoes in the framing of language and art, additionally dressed forms that make him close, representable, raising questions around the truth of the real, the humanity of man or the "lowering of his type"

The Subversive Power Of Signifying And The Ambivalence Of Modernity In Richard Wright's Native Son, Lahoussine Hamdoune

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Richard Wright's novel Native Son (1940) is more often than not dealt with as a distinguished instance of African-American protest literature being lacking in terms of literariness and narrative techniques. While it is true that protest literature’s overemphasis on the socio-political is usually costly, at least as much as the authenticity of the characters and the literariness of a literary work are concerned, the many readings of Native Son looking at it almost exclusively within this frame hardly do justice to the work. A return to Henry Louis Gates's theory of Signifying posited in his seminal book The Signifying Monkey: …

Toni Morrison's Beloved: The Story Of The Wandering Negro Spirit And Its Four Battling Souls, Abdelmajid Ridouane

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In the African-American literary tradition, the return to the past is an all-pervading organic strategy which is endowed with crucial but quite ambivalent meanings. African Americans experienced quite a unique condition that conflated geographical trauma with temporal nostalgia. Within this general framework, I will try to demonstrate how in Toni Morrison's highly acclaimed and Nobel Prize winning novel Beloved (1987), the multi-facetted strategies deployed to invoke the past occur on two levels: the inner-text's discursive and border-crossing interplay of the past and the present temporal/spatial settings, and the outer-text’s ambivalent free-floating interplay of four literary and geographical antecedents.

The Representation Of Moroccan Otherness In Edith Wharton's In Morocco, Khadija Belhiah

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Edith Wharton's In Morocco, written in 1920, is considered one of the classics of American travel literature. It is Wharton's account of her one-month journey through Moroccoin1917.In this book, which relies on colonial French historiography, Wharton explores Morocco and its people, recording her encounter with and impressions of a non-Western culture. She describes Moroccan cities and architecture, provides accounts of religious ceremonies and ritual dances, and depicts the Sultan's palaces and the "mysterious» world of his harem. As a travel narrative dealing with Morocco, Wharton's In Morocco is representative of Orientalist discourse and is informed by an intent to see …

The Postcolonial Condition In Tayeb Salih's Season Of Migration To The North, Rachida Yassine

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Tayeb Salih's Season of Migration to the North Disacounter-narrative written in 1969 at the early phase of African 'Decolonization'. This narrative re-writes Conrad's Heart of Darkness –and other ethnocentric representations of Europe's Other such as Shakespeare's Cali ban and Othello-from an Arab/African perspective. In his Culture and Imperialism, Said considers Salih's novel an example of the postcolonial native writers' reclamation of the fictive to poi of colonial culture "on the very same territory once ruled by a consciousness that assumed the subordination of a designated inferior. Saree Makdisee makes a similar point in his essay," The Empire Renarrated: Season of …

محمد الكغاط بين هاجس التجريب والارتجال المسرحي, سعيد كريمي

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Muhammad Al-Kaghat between the obsession with experimentation and theatrical improvisation

This study deals with the experience of Muhammad al-Kaghat in experimentation in the theater by researching the term from the two angles of language and convention, theatrical experimentation as a revolution and an explosion of theater constants, theatrical moving and comprehensive experimentation with al-Kaghat, research in meta-theatre, and black comedy.

Between The Visual And The Verbal: An Aesthetic Of Open Wounds In Post-Traumatic Experience Of The Iran-Iraq War (1980-1988), Maryam Ghodrati

Doctoral Dissertations

Trauma theory of the 1990s pioneered by Cathy Caruth, Shoshana Felman, and Geoffrey Hartman has been criticized by postcolonial scholars such as Irene Visser, Michael Balaev, and Stef Craps for being neglectful of the trauma of the colonial world in adopting a deconstructivist approach and psychologization of experiences of trauma. This antagonism between the traditional and postcolonial trauma theory has resulted in even deeper isolation of the human subject at the center of this argument. In my research, I highlight the reality and materiality of traumatic suffering in the shared realm of the human body to suggest a need for …

Desde El Fuego Que En Mí Arde: Performance, Literatura Y Cine Afro-Latinoamericano Producidos Por Mujeres Afrodescendientes En Perú, Cuba Y Brasil (1960–2000), Elena Ekatherina Chavez Goycochea

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

This dissertation examines different films, literary, and performance art pieces created by contemporary afro-descendant women from Peru, Cuba, and Brazil after the sixties with emphasis on the most relevant works of Conceição Evaristo, Sara Gómez, Victoria Santa Cruz, and Lucía Charún-Illescas. I focus my research on the crucial role these artists played in the cultural identity formation of Latin America when inserting ‘race’ as a category of socio-political analysis and cultural production. How did their films, performances, and texts challenge national narratives and imaginaries after 1960? Although in the sixties, women improved their civil rights in different countries, the ‘mujer …

Lost In Time And Lost In Space: Chronotopes In Thomas Pynchon’S Against The Day, Stephen Margavio

Honors Theses

In his 1937 essay “Forms of Time and of the Chronotope in the Novel,” Russian literary theorist Mikhail Bakhtin coins the term “chronotope” to discuss the inherently interconnected nature of time and space in narrative constructions. According to Bakhtin, there are a number of specific chronotopes (or space/time configurations) that help to define literary genres. Applying Bakhtin’s concepts to Thomas Pynchon’s novel Against the Day (2006), this thesis examines how the idea of narrative space/time can clarify Pynchon’s use of genre to make socio-political commentary. The first chapter of this thesis focuses on Bakhtin’s “road chronotope,” which is characterized by …