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Daughters And Fathers In Memoirs: Najla Said And Fatima Bhutto, Yasmina Bakry
Daughters And Fathers In Memoirs: Najla Said And Fatima Bhutto, Yasmina Bakry
Theses and Dissertations
The father-daughter relationship has always been crucial in shaping the identity of the daughter. Daughters inevitably inherit their fathers’ personal trauma, and in the case of the daughters of activists, national trauma as well. Throughout childhood, adolescence, and adulthood, daughters struggle to depoliticize their famous fathers, as well as assert their individuality amidst the overshadowing activism of their fathers and conflictual history of their nations. To heal the daughters’ identity fissures, they embark on a journey to chronicle memories of their fathers throughout their lives and critically assess their fathers’ cultural, social and political heritage and identity. This thesis will …
The Romani People In The European Cultural Imagination: Alexander Pushkin, Prosper Mérimée And Virginia Woolf, Nadya Siyam
The Romani People In The European Cultural Imagination: Alexander Pushkin, Prosper Mérimée And Virginia Woolf, Nadya Siyam
Theses and Dissertations
Scholarly literature on Roma is scarce compared to other racial groups as a lack of academic interest, financial limitations, and other social and political factors has constrained it. This resulted in a cross-cultural circulation of misinformation about Romani people and the reproduction of Romani myths and stereotypes in fiction. This project aims to analyze selected literary works on Gypsies from three Eastern and Western European countries and two periods to unpack the cultural and political roots of Romani literary misrepresentation. This research employs a range of theoretical frameworks chosen to put the Gypsy protagonists under maximum spotlight without unnecessary repetition, …
Fragments Of A Writer’S Mind: Virginia Woolf In Her Own Words, Baheya Zeitoun
Fragments Of A Writer’S Mind: Virginia Woolf In Her Own Words, Baheya Zeitoun
Theses and Dissertations
This thesis provides a thematic reading of select autobiographical and theoretical works by Virginia Woolf. It utilizes Deleuze and Guattari’s philosophy of the rhizome as a methodological framework. The rhizome does not have a hierarchal structure but is rather interconnected. In the same way, the chapters interweave the multi-disciplinary theoretical approaches to connect the disparate factions of the modernist writer’s mind and life.
The early twentieth century saw the rise of post-suffrage writers with narratives that diverged from male-centric values. Woolf is one of the writers who makes a clear distinction between male and female values by championing women’s experiences …
Historical Trauma: Literary And Testimonial Responses To Hiroshima, Mariam Ghonim
Historical Trauma: Literary And Testimonial Responses To Hiroshima, Mariam Ghonim
Theses and Dissertations
The concept of trauma is controversial in literature. While one may be able to come up with ways to describe trauma in fiction, representing historical trauma is a hard task for writers. Some argue that trauma can not be described through those who did not experience it, while others claim that, provided some elements are added, one can represent trauma to the reader. This thesis focuses on twentieth-century historical traumas related to a nuclear catastrophe and explores the different literary and testimonial responses to the catastrophic man-made event of Hiroshima (1945). In this thesis, Kathleen Burkinshaw’s historical fiction The Last …
Palestine Without Borders: A Study Of Arab And Western Voices In Theater, Bassem Mohsen Ahmed El-Sayed Ahmed Ibrahim
Palestine Without Borders: A Study Of Arab And Western Voices In Theater, Bassem Mohsen Ahmed El-Sayed Ahmed Ibrahim
Theses and Dissertations
Theater has always been perceived as a way to link different cultures together and bring them under one large domain. Regardless, the genre does not give the needed attention to works written in certain regions that may otherwise fall outside the consensus. One good example is Palestine and any works that deal with it as a setting. The first thing that comes to mind whenever the word “Palestine” is brought up is almost always of a political nature, having to do with the Palestinians’ national conflict with Israel. This thesis undertakes to amend this by probing into plays written by …
The Impact Of Slavery And Colonialism On The Black Consciousness: Narrative Of The Life Of Frederick Douglass, The Confessions Of Nat Turner, And Incidents In The Life Of A Slave Girl, Mariam Badawi
Theses and Dissertations
According to the German author, essayist, and empirical psychologist Karl Philipp Moritz, to be able to analyze someone psychologically, we have to be able to analyze ourselves as one would know oneself better than one would know anyone else. Therefore, he proposed the study of autobiographies to be able to delve into a writer's "innermost soul"; through their knowledge of themselves" (qtd. in Schlumbohm 32). Moreover, "the psychological effect that the ideology of white supremacy and European imperialism, in the form of slavery and colonialism, has had on Africa and her people has never been fully addressed and understood" (Nobles …
The Death And Rebirth Of The Feminine Muse: Edgar Allan Poe And Sylvia Plath, Noha Ibrahim
The Death And Rebirth Of The Feminine Muse: Edgar Allan Poe And Sylvia Plath, Noha Ibrahim
Theses and Dissertations
While drawing on mythology and a literary history that associated women with death as well as creativity, Edgar Allan Poe and Sylvia Plath experimented with binary oppositions such as masculine/feminine, composition/decomposition, and death/(re)birth. They gained inspiration from the same source, the dead muse, but how do they transform traditions that derive from classical and medieval literary precedent, perhaps in ways that are inherently critical of patriarchal modes of gender dynamics? Why is Poe fixated on a feminine dead muse while Plath is inspired by what she calls her “father-sea-god muse”? How do both authors represent the female body, and how …
Contrasting Opposites In The Child's World, Nardeen Mohamed Nabil El-Atrouzy
Contrasting Opposites In The Child's World, Nardeen Mohamed Nabil El-Atrouzy
Archived Theses and Dissertations
No abstract provided.
Humanizing The Colonial Other: The Engaged Reader In Shakespeare, Swift, Conrad, And Barghouti, Rasha Amr Ahmed Malek
Humanizing The Colonial Other: The Engaged Reader In Shakespeare, Swift, Conrad, And Barghouti, Rasha Amr Ahmed Malek
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No abstract provided.
Coming-Of-Age And Parallel Worlds In Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials, Reham Rabie
Coming-Of-Age And Parallel Worlds In Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials, Reham Rabie
Archived Theses and Dissertations
No abstract provided.
An Exploratory Analysis Of The Use Of Multi-Word Units In National Secondary School Efl Textbooks In Egypt, Ahmed Abd-Allah Sallam
An Exploratory Analysis Of The Use Of Multi-Word Units In National Secondary School Efl Textbooks In Egypt, Ahmed Abd-Allah Sallam
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No abstract provided.
The Effect Of Stem Length In Multiple Choice Questions On Item Difficulty In Syllabus-Based Vocabulary Test Items, Marwa Mohamed Abd El-Mohsen
The Effect Of Stem Length In Multiple Choice Questions On Item Difficulty In Syllabus-Based Vocabulary Test Items, Marwa Mohamed Abd El-Mohsen
Archived Theses and Dissertations
No abstract provided.
Carmen: Debating The Femme Fatale, Jala Sameh El Hadidi
Carmen: Debating The Femme Fatale, Jala Sameh El Hadidi
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No abstract provided.
Subaltern Voices: Silenced By Race, Gender, And Caste, Tamer Abdel Wahab Aly
Subaltern Voices: Silenced By Race, Gender, And Caste, Tamer Abdel Wahab Aly
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No abstract provided.
Parables Of Impermanence: Disintegrating The Real In John Fowles's "The Magus" And Thomas Pynchon's "V", Ahmed Emad El Din Hamza
Parables Of Impermanence: Disintegrating The Real In John Fowles's "The Magus" And Thomas Pynchon's "V", Ahmed Emad El Din Hamza
Archived Theses and Dissertations
No abstract provided.
Flesh Made Word: Flannery O'Connor And The Creation Of Mystery, Laila Galal Rifaat
Flesh Made Word: Flannery O'Connor And The Creation Of Mystery, Laila Galal Rifaat
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No abstract provided.
A Vision Of Metaphor Between Mind And World : Ricoeur, Stevens, And La MéTaphore Vive, Jacinthe A. Assaad
A Vision Of Metaphor Between Mind And World : Ricoeur, Stevens, And La MéTaphore Vive, Jacinthe A. Assaad
Archived Theses and Dissertations
No abstract provided.
Echoes From The Abyss Of Silence: The Complexity Of Female Self-Expression In Literature And Film, Yasmin Tahseen Sheer
Echoes From The Abyss Of Silence: The Complexity Of Female Self-Expression In Literature And Film, Yasmin Tahseen Sheer
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No abstract provided.
Cultural Hegemony, Identity And The Challenge Of Literature, Rabab Nabil Wereda
Cultural Hegemony, Identity And The Challenge Of Literature, Rabab Nabil Wereda
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No abstract provided.
Sylvia Plath And The Crisis Of The Self: A Feminist Reading Of The Late Poetry, Rania Salah Mohamed
Sylvia Plath And The Crisis Of The Self: A Feminist Reading Of The Late Poetry, Rania Salah Mohamed
Archived Theses and Dissertations
The study of Sylvia Plath's poetry sheds light on the various approaches that can be used to read the crisis of the self in Plath's poetry. It reveals the latent power and talent of a woman poet who fought against the male tradition to express her voice and demand full recognition. Plath's late poems can be approached in different ways. The thesis examines the existential dilemma of the modern poet in a world of confusion and the psychology of defense against death and suffering in the feminist struggle against the other. These approaches are used to account for the richness …
Narrative And Nation Construction, Yasmine Ramadan
Narrative And Nation Construction, Yasmine Ramadan
Archived Theses and Dissertations
No abstract provided.
The Spiral Of The Self: Coleridge's Conversation Poems, Naglaa Mohamed El Baz
The Spiral Of The Self: Coleridge's Conversation Poems, Naglaa Mohamed El Baz
Archived Theses and Dissertations
Coleridge's Conversation Poems lacked due attention from literary critics and scholars for ages. They are original compositions which have their sources in early poetic traditions of the 18th century. They manifest Coleridge's ability to experiment with traditional forms and introduce a new genre, which is more simple in style, while rich in philosophical and psychological depth. The unity between form and content, as seen in these poems, was a phenomenal occurrence in their time, while their spiral structure enables the poet to express his poetic thought with all its complexities. The poems expose the double facets of the poet's self …
The Search For Identity Through Self-Alienation In Charles Dickens's Great Expectations And Naguib Mahfuz's Palace Of Desire, Sahar Salah El-Din El-Khatib
The Search For Identity Through Self-Alienation In Charles Dickens's Great Expectations And Naguib Mahfuz's Palace Of Desire, Sahar Salah El-Din El-Khatib
Archived Theses and Dissertations
No abstract provided.
The Death Of The Hero: A Study In Modern And Postmodern Literature, Sarah R Yeslam
The Death Of The Hero: A Study In Modern And Postmodern Literature, Sarah R Yeslam
Archived Theses and Dissertations
No abstract provided.
The Writer's Journey Into Solitude : Self-Discovery In Hayy Ibn Yaqzan, Robinson Crusoe And Friday, Rabia Abdul Salim Madhi
The Writer's Journey Into Solitude : Self-Discovery In Hayy Ibn Yaqzan, Robinson Crusoe And Friday, Rabia Abdul Salim Madhi
Archived Theses and Dissertations
The idea of physical solitude often implies metaphysical solitude, and it is this spiritual state of detachment or self-enclosure that usually arouses the widest range of moral responses. Physical solitude is a metaphorical focus for an attitude that relates to self and society. In my thesis, however, I am primarily interested in the concept of solitude as a vehicle facilitating a journey of inward exploration into the mystifying labyrinth of the self in search of truth. In this sense, solitude becomes a condition enabling consciousness to achieve spiritual insight and truth with respect to the nature of self and world.
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
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
Archived Theses and Dissertations
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 …
A Dramatics Of The Postmodern, Nisma IdrīS
A Dramatics Of The Postmodern, Nisma IdrīS
Archived Theses and Dissertations
No abstract provided.
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
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
Archived Theses and Dissertations
No abstract provided.
The Dynamics Of Political Theatre In David Hare's Via Dolorasa And SaʻDallah WannūS'S The King Is The King, Rehab Ali El-Kobtan
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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No abstract provided.
Memory And Literary Retrieval Of Disappearing Worlds, Heba Ibrahim Meshaal
Memory And Literary Retrieval Of Disappearing Worlds, Heba Ibrahim Meshaal
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No abstract provided.