A Comparative Analysis Of The Great American And Arab Novel
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A Comparative Analysis Of The Great American And Arab Novel
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Author : Alen Ontl
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date : 2018-07-26
A Comparative Analysis Of The Great American And Arab Novel written by Alen Ontl and has been published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-07-26 with Literary Criticism categories.
This book represents the first comparative reading of the Great Novel of American and Arabic literature to date. The Great American Novel, that most elusive and frustrating of concepts, ever-present in film and literary scholarship, has been an object of pursuit, inspiration and contention for more than a century. By reviewing the most serious literary scholarship in the field, this book identifies the work often recognized by critics as the quintessential American novel, the work that best captures the different aspects of American society, and compares and contrasts it with its counterpart in Arabic culture. Intended for both academics and serious readers of literature, the book serves to establish a new trend in cross-cultural literary scholarship, in addition to opening up new vistas for literary exploration in this politically charged field.
The Dream Of The Great American Novel
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Author : Lawrence Buell
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2014-02-10
The Dream Of The Great American Novel written by Lawrence Buell and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-02-10 with Literary Criticism categories.
The idea of "the great American novel" continues to thrive almost as vigorously as in its nineteenth-century heyday, defying 150 years of attempts to dismiss it as amateurish or obsolete. In this landmark book, the first in many years to take in the whole sweep of national fiction, Lawrence Buell reanimates this supposedly antiquated idea, demonstrating that its history is a key to the dynamics of national literature and national identity itself. The dream of the G.A.N., as Henry James nicknamed it, crystallized soon after the Civil War. In fresh, in-depth readings of selected contenders from the 1850s onward in conversation with hundreds of other novels, Buell delineates four "scripts" for G.A.N. candidates. One, illustrated by The Scarlet Letter, is the adaptation of the novel's story-line by later writers, often in ways that are contrary to the original author's own design. Other aspirants, including The Great Gatsby and Invisible Man, engage the American Dream of remarkable transformation from humble origins. A third script, seen in Uncle Tom's Cabin and Beloved, is the family saga that grapples with racial and other social divisions. Finally,mega-novels from Moby-Dick to Gravity's Rainbow feature assemblages of characters who dramatize in microcosm the promise and pitfalls of democracy. The canvas of the great American novel is in constant motion, reflecting revolutions in fictional fashion, the changing face of authorship, and the inseparability of high culture from popular. As Buell reveals, the elusive G.A.N. showcases the myth of the United States as a nation perpetually under construction.
Writing Beirut
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Author : Samira Aghacy
language : en
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Release Date : 2015-03-20
Writing Beirut written by Samira Aghacy and has been published by Edinburgh University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-03-20 with Literary Criticism categories.
Presents a geographical/spatial approach to Beirut seeking to understand how the city is imagined in fiction. This book focuses on the urban/rural divide, the city through panoramic views and pedestrian acts, the city as sexualised and gendered, and the city as a palimpsest. It provides a thorough overview of Beirut in the modern Arabic novel.
Transatlantic Avant Gardes
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Author : Eric B White
language : en
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Release Date : 2013-03-01
Transatlantic Avant Gardes written by Eric B White and has been published by Edinburgh University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-03-01 with Literary Criticism categories.
Provides an alternative account of the modernist transatlanticTransatlantic Avant-Gardes offers a revisionary account of the evolution of twentieth-century modernism. Complimenting recent studies of modernist expatriates, Eric White explores new points of contact between European and American avant-gardes to place 'located' figures such as William Carlos Williams, Marianne Moore, Wallace Stevens, Jean Toomer, and Alfred Kreymborg back into the 'global design' of literary modernism. Focusing on artist-run 'little magazines' (including Others, Contact, The Little Review, Blast, The Dial, Fire!!, and Pagany) and selected fine press publications and mainstream periodicals, White also reconsiders the boundaries that traditionally divide modernist literature into 'exile' and 'localist', or 'regionalist' and 'cosmopolitan', factions. Thus, the book proposes a version of localist modernism that prioritises issues of geographic and textual 'location' to deliver a 'networked' approach to American modernism in the transatlantic context. Combining literary-historical, textual, and cultural criticism, Transatlantic Avant-Gardes provides a new reading of the specialised literary networks that interrogated the relationship between geographic place, textual space and national identity in the modernist transatlantic.
Representation Of Contemporary Social Conflicts In American Literature Comparative Analysis Of Lolita The Price Of Salt
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Author : Natasha Dedeurwaerder
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017
Representation Of Contemporary Social Conflicts In American Literature Comparative Analysis Of Lolita The Price Of Salt written by Natasha Dedeurwaerder and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017 with categories.
This masters thesis is a comparative analysis based on the differences and similarities between two novels: The Price of Salt and Lolita. The objective is to determine whether Nabokov could have in fact been inspired by The Price of Salt and to determine how and/or why particular controversial subject matter is still relevant today. The assumption that Nabokov was in fact inspired is based on the two novels sharing many similar themes and that both were written during the same time-period. Moreover, both works have been written in a very similar form: transcontinental road narrative based on exile in the form of a motel subculture genre. Lolita, and its many controversies, leans remarkably close to The Price of Salt. However, while the first is first about paedophilia, the second deals primarily with homosexuality. Although these are very different subjects, during the 1950s in America, they were mostly considered somewhat similar. Especially in terms of a medical context. Similar to these two controversial subjects, many other subjects are quite comparable as well. The analysis illustrates how and why all these different subjects have been integrated by the author. Notwithstanding their remarkable similarities, one of the two novels is considered to be part of The Great American Novel. This paper briefly discusses what the GAN in fact is, and why only make one of the two books has potential to be referred to as The Great American Novel. Since both are from the same time-period and depict equal controversial subject matter, should they not be equally classified as The Great American Novel? Moreover, the genre to which they both have been classified is up for debate as well. Firstly, an introduction to the novels is provided, as well as background information on their authors: Patricia Highsmith and Vladimir Nabokov. Secondly, the chapter on controversial subject matter is subdivided into two chapters: individual subject matter and comparable subject matter. Themes belonging to the first are following themes: homosexuality, paedophilia, conformity, socioeconomic class conflict, breaking with gender roles and age disparity. This subdivision describes the themes that only occur in one of the two novels, or are only touched upon lightly by one of the two authors and can therefore only be analysed separately. The latter subdivision discusses themes, such as age disparity, unreliable narration, obsession, manipulation and sexual obsession, love and murder, and lastly, exile and road narrative. These themes are depicted in both novels and are therefore comparable to each other. In addition, each major theme is introduced by a brief literary review on the social conditions of the 1950s in America with the objective to obtain a more comprehended understanding on the social living situation of 1950s America. Lastly, additional information on the novels adaption to a screenplay is provided as well.
A Comparative Analysis Of The Great American And Arab Novel
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Author : Alen Ontl
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date : 2019-06
A Comparative Analysis Of The Great American And Arab Novel written by Alen Ontl and has been published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-06 with categories.
This book represents the first comparative reading of the Great Novel of American and Arabic literature to date. The Great American Novel, that most elusive and frustrating of concepts, ever-present in film and literary scholarship, has been an object of pursuit, inspiration and contention for more than a century. By reviewing the most serious literary scholarship in the field, this book identifies the work often recognized by critics as the quintessential American novel, the work that best captures the different aspects of American society, and compares and contrasts it with its counterpart in Arabic culture. Intended for both academics and serious readers of literature, the book serves to establish a new trend in cross-cultural literary scholarship, in addition to opening up new vistas for literary exploration in this politically charged field.
Comparative North American Studies
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Author : Reingard M. Nischik
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2016-04-29
Comparative North American Studies written by Reingard M. Nischik and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-29 with Literary Criticism categories.
Merging selected approaches to Comparative North American Studies with detailed textual analyses, this book studies works of writers as diverse as Ernest Hemingway, Joyce Carol Oates, Tim O'Brien, and Margaret Atwood. Topics include comparative approaches to the North American modernist short story, narratives of the Canada-US border, and North American reviews of Atwood's novels.
The Great American Scaffold
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Author : Frank Austermühl
language : en
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Release Date : 2014-02-15
The Great American Scaffold written by Frank Austermühl and has been published by John Benjamins Publishing Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-02-15 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Based on extensive quantitative and qualitative analyses of a corpus of American presidential speeches that includes all inaugural addresses and State of the Union messages from 1789 to 2008, as well as major foreign and security policy speeches after 1945, this research monograph analyzes the various forms and functions of intertextual references found in the discourse of American presidents. Working within an original, interdisciplinary theoretical framework established by theories of intertextuality, discourse analysis, and presidential studies, the book discusses five different types of presidential intertextuality, all of which contribute jointly to creating a set of carefully manipulated and politically powerful images of both the American nation and the American presidency. The book is intended for scholars and students in political and presidential studies, communications, American cultural studies, and linguistics, as well as anyone interested in the American presidency in general.
Engaging Authority
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Author : Trevor Stack
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2022-01-31
Engaging Authority written by Trevor Stack and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-01-31 with Political Science categories.
Engaging Authority: Citizenship and Political Community aims to explore how authority is entailed in different versions of citizenship and political community. Who or what claims authority in the name of “a people,” and to what effect? What kind and scope of authority is claimed? And who is held to be part of such a people”? Engaging Authority brings together scholars from anthropology, constitutional studies, cultural studies, politics, political theory, sociology, and philosophy in a collaborative project to develop a multifaceted understanding of citizenship in political community. The volume begins with the premise that to describe or identify oneself as a citizen entails a particular relationship to authority. Citizens are understood to be members of a community which we consider “political” in that members are invoked, and may also be involved, in the business of governing. How does this relationship function? How is community invoked by those exercising authority, and in what senses do citizens partake in its exercise? In this volume, the authors explore different forms of the citizen’s relationship to authority in political community, across and beyond the variations that usually concern scholars, such as the self-governing people, nation-states, popular sovereignty, and democratic citizenship.
The Prophet And Herland
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Author : Hoda Thabet
language : en
Publisher: National and University Library of Iceland
Release Date : 2016-06-09
The Prophet And Herland written by Hoda Thabet and has been published by National and University Library of Iceland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-06-09 with categories.
This paper investigates the influence of Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1835) and The Prophet by Khalil Gibran (1883-1930) on American literature from the perspective of four major cultural institutions. In the literature currently available, there is little in reference to the influence of Gilman and Gibran- two marginalized writers at the beginning of the era of American realism- on the discourse of American literature. The purpose of this study is to focus primarily on the works of Gibran examining how he depicts four vital cultural institutions. The researcher will compare another marginalized writer, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, with Gibran and both of their focuses on, and the impact of, four cultural institutions on their writing. The institutions focused on are family, education, religion, and love of country.Gibran was a male who lived in an era when society oppressed women and considered them unequal to men. Gilman was a female who lived in the same era. Each has a very analytical, fictional approach to how things could be if they were different in real life. They are from two different traditions. Gibran was an Arab immigrant, who was a pioneer of Modern Arabic American literature. Gilman was an American woman living in a society where women are not valued nor considered equal to men. Many consider her a pioneer in feminism because of her in-depth look at women and their place in society in her writings. There is value in analyzing the works of writers from two different traditions. The comparison and contrast between the two gives a basis for better understanding each. It further enhances the understanding of a literature work