The primary purpose of this study is to demonstrate that the Book of Nehemiah stands as a unified independent literary work with specific themes and a definitive message. A literary analysis of Nehemiah will show that the book stands alone as a historical narrative. The book, as…
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While scholars uniformly recognise John 13–17 as a unique literary unit within the Fourth Gospel, these chapters contain various difficulties that distract from their cohesive integrity. Some argue that the problems result from an incomplete or careless editorial redaction, and …
Copyright and the infrastructure for literary creativity in Kenya are suboptimal. I evaluated this through three related hypotheses. First, the public, private and non-profit sectors do not efficiently support training of authors, writing, publishing, distribution and access to …
To read nineteenth-century Arabic, Persian and English literary works has often meant to value these texts in accordance with their assimilation into the trajectories of novelistic writing and nationalist discourse: a predicament here termed the nationalist-novelist paradigm of …
The Eagle and the Crescent explores American Barbary tales of the late eighteen and early nineteenth centuries, including novels---Peter Markoe's The Algerine Spy in Pennsylvania (1787), Royall Tyler's The Algerine Captive (1797), and the anonymous Humanity in Algiers (1801)---a…
This dissertation investigates the different strategies which Arab American writers used in their writings in English in order to express or convey Arab culture. I used a combination of linguistic and literary analyses. Within the linguistic analysis I use discourse analysis as …
LOSTMark Twain's CatAfter the death of his beloved wife, Samuel Clemens'known to his fans as Mark Twain'holed himself up in his house, too sad to face the outside world. His constant companion in his grief was Bambino, his daughter Clara's cat. Despite the pleas of his daughter …
LOSTMark Twain's CatAfter the death of his beloved wife, Samuel Clemens'known to his fans as Mark Twain'holed himself up in his house, too sad to face the outside world. His constant companion in his grief was Bambino, his daughter Clara's cat. Despite the pleas of his daughter …
Northwest Semitic syntax has been explored extensively on a phrasal and clausal level. This has contributed much to our understanding of the languages in this linguistic family. There have also been numerous studies on micro level, and isolated occurrences of literary devices wi…
Various literary texts written by African American authors, specifically from the 1920s through the 1960s, portray the purposes and effectiveness of blacks and whites working in the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), the Communist Party of the Un…
The sun-god of ancient Mesopotamia, Utu/Šamaš, was widely represented in both literature and iconography. In order to better understand the theology of this deity in ancient Sumer and Babylon, these two representational forms should be studied together. This dissertation asks ho…
This dissertation is an analysis of the literary structure of the Book of Hosea. It demonstrates that the prophetic speech types or literary forms and its numerous rhetorical devices are woven together into successively developing rhetorical units that effectively present Hosea'…
Jane Austen's novels are a solid part of the literary canon and have never been out print. They have been made into many modern movies and are common household names; however, they are largely misunderstood by the general public. On the surface, Austen's novels all involve chara…
One of the most controversial and acclaimed novels ever written, The Satanic Verses is Salman Rushdie?s best-known and most galvanizing book. Set in a modern world filled with both mayhem and miracles, the story begins with a bang: the terrorist bombing of a London-bound jet in …