The purpose of this thesis is to analyze Kitab al-Tajalliyat (The Book of Theophanies), a trilogy by the contemporary Egyptian author Jamal al-Ghitani. I will be situating my analyses within the context of contemporary Arab discourse about the relationship between al-turath (tra…
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This thesis is an exploratory work. Informed by critical feminism and the sociology of literature, it attempts to develop a state-centered theoretical framework for a cross-cultural and interdisciplinary study of the literary productions of indigenous women writers from the sett…
This thesis consists of a commented translation of an excerpt from a ninth century C.E. letter by the celebrated Arabic translator Hunayn Ibn Ishaq. The epistle is addressed to one of his patrons, 'Ali ibn Yahya, and gives an account of the works of the Greek physician Galen as …
Among the oral narratives of the Turkic people, stories about the epic hero Koroglu (Blind man's son) are among the best known and most widely distributed. From Anatolia to Central Asia, the Koroglu stories exist in cycles, or series of stories, dealing with various adventures o…
Recently translation has emerged as a significant medium through which nations can recognize and understand each other, civilizations can assemble and communicate, and individuals can get an access to knowledge they have no other way to. In our global small world, translation re…
This dissertation examines how Israel is pictured as a nation in the mind's eye of its citizens their production/reception of local prose fiction. The study focuses on how the nation is imagined differently by members of its major constituencies through the role played by litera…
The first, major effort to translate the Hebrew Bible into another language occurred in the third century B.C. when the Greek Septuagint was born. As those translators worked, they left in their wake a pattern of decisions which affected both the linguistic and literary characte…
This dissertation argues that a broad commonality of thematic, aesthetic and structural concerns exists in the literature of minority authors writing within contemporary contexts of migration. The texts addressed in this study, recent works in German juxtaposed to examples from …
The study explores the political and social contingencies that Palestinian women face in defining their women's movement. The author proposes three questions for the movement: (a) What challenges limit Palestinian women in defining their movement? (b) How do Palestinian women de…
Interest in Joyce Mansour has centered mostly on the ambiguity and the lack of “subjective identity” in her poetic works. This dissertation proposes to investigate that notion and demonstrates that Mansour’s discourse is that of a woman poet’s assertive, complex, and universal v…
This dissertation focuses on the proems (petihta'oit) of Midrash Eicha Rabba. They constitute the introductory section of that book, comprising the first thirty-six chapters (thirty-four in the printed editions). The proem form is prevalent in rabbinic literature and is often fo…
Babylonian Poetic Accentuation (BPA) has been approached from a diachronic perspective. This dissertation, however, looks at BPA at one point in time, in one manuscript. Its concern is discovering what rules govern Early Babylonian accent placement. Working with the three major …
The dissertation is about the relationship of popular culture to modernism and national culture in Egypt. The research is based on films, television serials, songs, various types of writing, and approximately three years of living in Egypt. The dissertation begins from the premi…
The present work is a descriptive grammatical and lexical study of the Angālī dialect, which is spoken in an area to the southwest of the province of Fārs (Persia proper), in Iran. This dialect represents linguistic peculiarities which connect it with a larger family of Iranian …
The concept of discourse markers is relatively new, first introduced by Deborah Schiffrin in her book, Discourse Markers, published in 1987. In relation to discourse markers, this study focuses upon the following items: (1) language strategies in general--of which discourse mark…
This is a study of irony in Tarikh-i Bayhaqi/ (450/1058-1059), a history of the Perso-Islamic dynasty, the Ghaznavids (388-582/994-1186). The Ghaznavids ruled in an area now comprising eastern Iran, Afghanistan, and northern India. With the loss of the greater Khurasan to the no…
Since 1948, the muwashshah and its kharja have stood at the center of fierce debates about the Arabic role in Spanish cultural and literary history. Samuel Stern's landmark article is widely credited with bringing attention to this peculiarly Andalusian form of strophic poetry. …
The tradition of image worship in the Arabian peninsula ended with the advent of Islam at Mecca in 630. Until now few serious studies on the background and origin of these images have been done. This thesis deals with the literary and archaeological evidence for reconstructing t…
My dissertation is a study of the cultural status and evolving significance of The Thousand and One Nights in France. Since its first appearance in Europe with Antoine Galland's translation (1704-17), this collection of tales from the Middle East has been popular with European a…