18 research outputs found
Traditions and the Hero Personality Construction (Things Fall Apart as Amodel)
No full textThis paper represents a first attempt to study traditions and the personality construction of the hero in writing the novel. Philosophy of writing novels makes clear that a complete understanding of the novel requires data on both film and writing. Previous empirical work has dealt with the transfer of resources between the hero and the novel, either using data on the novel, or with data solely obtained from the hero. Using a novel things fall apart as a model, I study two types of novels: transfers to the author and the hero towards the personalit
Symbolism as a Literary Style of Understanding the Novel Analysis with reference to Great Gatsby and Waiting for Godot
No full textThis paper focuses on Symbolism as a Literary Styl
The Woman as Effective Factor in Writing the Novel With Reference to Great Gatsby
No full textIn this paper, the researcher deals with the Great Gatsby and focuses on the woman which contributes in portraying the image of the woman in the American Dream. The importance is analyzing high society during the1920s through the eyes of narrator Nick Carraway, the researcher reveals that the woman in the American Dream has transformed from a pure ideal to a means of attraction. In support of this message, Fitzgerald highlights the original aspects as well as the new aspects of the American Dream in his tragic story to illustrate that the role of the American woman is now lost forever to the American people
Communities Disintegration as a Result of Colonization in Heart of Darkness and Things Fall Apart
No full textThis paper makes an attempt to analyze the novel Things Fall Apart and Heart of Darkness in an attempt to mirror the Communities Disintegration as a Result of Colonization. The study focuses on Chinua Achebe his first novel Things Fall Apart (TFA) in 1958 , and Conrad\u27s Heart of Darkness Achebe wrote TFA in response to European novels that depicted Africans as savages who needed to be enlightened by the Europeans. He also fiercely resents the stereotype of Africa as an undifferentiated "primitive" land, the "heart of darkness," as Conrad calls it. The importance of this study lies on the nove
Al Tayeb Salih between the Reality and Prospection (Season of Migration to the North as a Model)
No full textThis paper deals with Al Tayeb Salih between the Reality and Prospection. It focuses on Th
Review of Directed motivational currents and language education: Exploring implications for pedagogy; Author: Christine Muir; Publisher: Multilingual Matters, 2020; ISBN: 978-1-78892-884-7; Pages: 252
No full textThe construct of a directed motivational current (DMC), or “. . . a surge of motivational energy that seemingly picks an individual up and carries them sometimes unimaginable distances” (p. xvi) was introduced into research on motivation in second and foreign language (L2) learning less than a decade ago (e.g., Dörnyei, Ibrahim, & Muir, 2015; Muir & Dörnyei, 2013). Despite being a relative newcomer to the field, the concept has provided an impulse for empirical investigations which have primarily focused on validating its core assumptions and proposed dimensions using largely qualitative methodology (e.g., Safdari & Maftoon, 2007; Zarrinabadi & Tavakoli, 2017). The book Directed Motivational Currents in Language Education: Implications for Pedagogy by Christine Muir is another valuable addition to this line of inquiry and it can be seen in a way as a follow-up to and extension of the monograph Motivational Currents in Language Learning: Frameworks for Focused Interventions that she co-authored with Zoltán Dörnyei and Alastair Henry in 2016. Since I had the opportunity to write a review of this volume for Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching (Pawlak, 2017), I was all the more curious to see how research on DMCs has progressed and what promise it currently holds for L2 pedagogy. Therefore, the moment the publisher contacted me with the suggestion that SSLLT might be a good venue for a review, I immediately jumped on the offer and simply felt compelled to take on this task myself. I have to say from the get-go that the book has lived up to my expectations and, although I might be somewhat skeptical about some of the implications for classroom practice, I have to admit that Christine Muir’s work represents a so-much-needed step forward in the study of DMCs. This certainly cannot too often be said about all the apparently innovative ideas introduced into the domain of second language acquisition research
Rule behind the silk curtain: the Sultanahs of Aceh 1641-1699.
No full textPhDThis thesis is about the kingdom of Aceh Dar al-Salam in the latter half of the
seventeenth century when four women ruled in succession: Sultanah Tajul Alam
Safiatuddin Syah (1641-1675), Sultanah Nur Alam Naqiatuddin Syah (1675-1678),
Sultanah Inayat Zakiatuddin Syah (1678-1688) and Sultanah Iamalat Zainatuddin Syah
(1688-1699). How and why these queens came to power, and how they exercised it, are
problems that have fascinated enquirers, prompting a range of comments and
observations, especially the assertion that the queens were mere figureheads, during
whose reigns the male elite (orangkaya) captured power. The Sultanahs were held
responsible for the erosion of royal power and the kingdom's decline in the seventeenth
century. Yet no in-depth study has ever investigated these claims. The main objective of
this thesis is to evaluate the received views on these female sovereigns. The thesis also
seeks to examine the origin, nature and impact of these Sultanahs. Female rule seems a
curious phenomenon in a Muslim state. Furthermore, in a largely patriarchal kingdom
such as Aceh, queens seemed to be strangely out of place. This unique episode in Aceh's
history happened when European Companies - the Dutch VOC (Veerinigde Ooost-Indische
Compagnie) and the English East India Company - were gradually increasing their
commercial hold and flexing their military muscles in the region. Indigenous polities
suffered increasing interference and pressure from Westerners. Most Malay and Muslim
coastal polities in maritime Southeast Asia fell into European intruders' hands. By
exploring the circumstances and arguments surrounding female accession, and
examining some key episodes that show how power worked in Aceh at the time, I hope
to approach a new understanding of how and why the male elite of Aceh placed the fate
of the kingdom in the hands of women, and with what effects
An experiment in contextualised comparative hermeneutics : a reading of Genesis 1-11 in the context of parallel Qur'anic material and Christian mission amongst Muslims in Elswick, Newcastle upon Tyne.
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Itinerant narratives: travel, identity and literary form in Abdulrazak Gurnah’s fiction
No full textThis study offers the first full-length single-author analysis of the fictional work of Abdulrazak Gurnah. Born in Zanzibar in 1948 and relocated to England at the age of eighteen, Gurnah has published seven novels so far, spanning from 1987 to 2005. A combination of lesser known works and critically acclaimed novels such as the Booker Prize shortlisted Paradise (1994), Gurnah’s oeuvre provides a fruitful terrain for an investigation of the complex dynamics by which the tropes of travel and identity intersect with the deployment and transformation of various literary forms. While there is a small but growing number of critical articles and book chapters discussing Gurnah’s work, there has been no in depth analysis of his fiction to date. Contrary to most of the work published on him so far, this study attempts to follow the development of Gurnah’s aesthetic by demonstrating the ways it is informed by his experience of exile and by the recent history of Zanzibar and East Africa. Furthermore, it will also consider how his experience as an academic and as a renowned critic in the field of postcolonial literature might also account for the ways in which his fiction often deals with the recovery of suppressed voices and histories. Drawing on a number of different cultural theorists such as Edward Said, James Clifford, and Caren Kaplan as well as on Gurnah’s critical work, this study provides a focussed approach to the thematics of dislocation and subject formation which are central to Gurnah’s literary oeuvre. The insistence on a historically oriented approach eschews a homogenisation of the experience of exile and allows the identification of specific traits characterising his works. The development of the notion of 'itinerancy', in conjunction with the expansion of anthropologist Victor Turner’s concept of liminality, will help to explicate the emphasis in Gurnah’s texts on threshold subjects and sites which question fixed notions of identity, citizenship and history. The intertwined concepts of itinerancy and liminality will also help to address the issue of literary form, to understand the ways in which the usage of specific literary genres or narratives adopted by Gurnah in his novels is connected to the development of his particular aesthetic. The bildungsroman, pilgrimage narrative, homecoming journey and historiographic metafiction are in turn deployed and transformed by the writer to accommodate the representation of different forms of displacement as well as the recounting of alternative versions of the past. The chapters making up this thesis take Gurnah’s novels in chronological order and demonstrate the need to consider this relatively neglected writer as a key figure in contemporary literature
A reappraisal of attitudes to the 'People of the Book' in the Qur'an and hadith, with particular reference to Muslim fiscal policy and the covenant of 'Umar
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