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The myth of Prometheus has been dealt with throughout the ages. It illustrates the ongoing rebirth of the creative revolutionary spirit though it is sometimes muzzled and muffled by tyrannical forces. My goal in this paper is to prove that all these below mentioned writers have reflected a creative mainstream of rebellion against tyranny, hinting from time to time to the Egyptian 25th January Revolution. Many Greek and Roman authors discussed ...

This research aims at investigating Carol Ann Duffy's representation of feminist issues by recalling historical, religious and mythological figures using the dramatic monologue. Duffy subverts feminine archetypes through a series of dramatic monologues in her volume The World's Wife whose structure is based on an eclectic mixture of influences that build up intertextual and metatextual webs reflected in themes of love, as well as the loss of l...

This book is a collection of four essays which deal with the black dilemma: whether to resist enslavement, colonialism and the stereotypical image of the noble savage and stick to the black identity, or to assimilate in the colonialist culture. The first essay "Do Things Fall Apart? A Reconsideration of the Racist Concept of the Noble Savage Through a True Representation of the Savagery of the Noble" was published as part of the proceedings of...

This book is a collection of four essays on translation theories and practice from Arabic perspective. The first essay "Appropriation in Literary Translation" was the topic of an oral presentation I gave as a participation in the Translation Day held by the Faculty of Al Alsun (Languages), Ain Shams University on 2nd March, 2015. The second essay "Nizar Qabbani's "Balqis": Translation into English with an introduction" was published in Forum: ...

Modern Arabic Studies: Poetry, the Novel & Culture contains four chapters, each of which presents a paper, which tackle Arabic poetry, novel and culture respectively. The first two papers are translations of two poems by two famous modern Arab poets-Nizar Qabbani and Farouq Goweda- with an introduction. They discuss literary and cultural translation theories respectively. The third paper is a comparative study between an Arabic novel titled Mi...

This study compares between the most important African-American Archetypes through a detailed analysis of Langston Hughes's philosophy of self-acceptance ( 1902-1967) and Cullen's self-detraction (1903-1946). The study consists of an introduction, five chapters, the first four of which are concerned with an analysis of the poetry. The last surveys their prose and drama. This is followed by a conclusion.Ch. I relates the identity dilemma felt b...

Using feminism as a reading mechanism, many of Stevie Smith's collected poems create a true image of the female's body and call for reformulating her gendered role. Smith's literary works are greatly influenced by her life. Though she did not call herself a feminist or like to be labeled so, her masculine name, her body shape and above all her viewpoints on women's issues, reflected in her work, strongly link her to the feminist circle. Key co...

Essays on Modern Poetry and Criticism is divided into two main parts. Part one presents a pantheon of poets representing British poetry, Stevie Smith (1902-1971), Ted Hughes (1930-1998), Carol Ann Duffy (1955- ), American Poetry, Wallace Stevens (1879- 1955), E. E. Cummings (1894-1962), and African American Poetry, Langston Hughes (1902-1967), Countee Cullen (1903-1946), Yusef Komunyakaa (1941- ) and Ai (1947-2010). Although there are differen...

Dual Inheritance Theory (DIT) asserts that both genetic and environmental factors have a formative impact on the physical as well as psychological upbringing of people.Audre Lorde, a famous Afro-American poet and a model (according to DIT) has influenced Afro-German women writers.For the forging of a collective Black German consciousness of identity, Audre Lorde's connections with Black Germans were pivotal and marked the beginning of a cross-...

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