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The Castaway: A Comparative Study Of Alienation In Franz Kafka's "The Trial" And J.M. Coetzee's "Foe", Alia Mohamed Taher Ahmed Tawfik Abou Zeid Jun 2003

The Castaway: A Comparative Study Of Alienation In Franz Kafka's "The Trial" And J.M. Coetzee's "Foe", Alia Mohamed Taher Ahmed Tawfik Abou Zeid

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This thesis is a comparative study of alienation. It provides an analysis of the different ways in which the Czech writer, Franz Kafka, and the South African writer, J.M. Coetzee delineate alienation in their works, The Trial and Foe. Three aspects of alienation are discussed: alienation from self, world and language. Hence, the thesis emphasizes that manâ s predicament of alienation, homelessness and exile stems from a failure to recognize a self to which he can relate, an inability to find a home in an alien universe and an incapacity to develop a constructive relationship with words and language. This …


Time, Nature, And The Body: Sufi Dimensions In Muhammad Afifi Matar's Quartet Of Joy And T.S. Eliot's Four Quartets, Yasmine Mohamed-Samir Motawy Jun 2003

Time, Nature, And The Body: Sufi Dimensions In Muhammad Afifi Matar's Quartet Of Joy And T.S. Eliot's Four Quartets, Yasmine Mohamed-Samir Motawy

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Memory And Literary Retrieval Of Disappearing Worlds, Heba Ibrahim Meshaal Jun 2003

Memory And Literary Retrieval Of Disappearing Worlds, Heba Ibrahim Meshaal

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The Dynamics Of Political Theatre In David Hare's Via Dolorasa And SaʻDallah WannūS'S The King Is The King, Rehab Ali El-Kobtan Jun 2003

The Dynamics Of Political Theatre In David Hare's Via Dolorasa And SaʻDallah WannūS'S The King Is The King, Rehab Ali El-Kobtan

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A Dramatics Of The Postmodern, Nisma IdrīS Jun 2003

A Dramatics Of The Postmodern, Nisma IdrīS

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Sheltering Strategies, Rania Atef Morshed Jun 2003

Sheltering Strategies, Rania Atef Morshed

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Chasing Demons: Female Villains And Narrative Strategy In Victorian Sensation Fiction, Heather Sowards Jan 2003

Chasing Demons: Female Villains And Narrative Strategy In Victorian Sensation Fiction, Heather Sowards

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This thesis explores Victorian sensation fiction and key authors who rely on essentialism, employing the classifications of either angel or demon to their literary female figures. Using Nina Auerbach's theories on these above categorizations and Helene Cixous's linguistic binaries, I examine the ways in which the narrators of Mary Elizabeth Braddon's Lady Audley's Secret, Sheridan Le Fanu's Uncle Silas, and Wilkie Collins's Heart and Science force this taxonomy onto the female villains who dominate the novels' themes. By looking closely at the narrative strategies, I conclude that these female characters themselves are proposing a very different sense of self or …