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Book The Arab Oedipus

    Book Details:
  • Author : Marvin Carlson
  • Publisher : Martin E. Segal Theatre Center Publ.
  • Release : 2005
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 464 pages

Download or read book The Arab Oedipus written by Marvin Carlson and published by Martin E. Segal Theatre Center Publ.. This book was released on 2005 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Four plays based on the Oedipus legend by four leading dramatists of the Arab World.

Book The Arabic Freud

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  • Author : Omnia El Shakry
  • Publisher : Princeton University Press
  • Release : 2020-03-31
  • ISBN : 0691203105
  • Pages : 224 pages

Download or read book The Arabic Freud written by Omnia El Shakry and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-03-31 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Omnia El Shakry challenges the notion of a strict divide between psychoanalysis and Islam by tracing how postwar thinkers in Egypt blended psychoanalytic theories with concepts from classical Islamic thought in a creative encounter of ethical engagement. Drawing on scholarly writings as well as popular literature on self-healing, El Shakry provides the first in-depth examination of psychoanalysis in Egypt and reveals how a new science of psychology - or "science of the soul," as it came to be called - was inextricably linked to Islam and mysticism. She explores how Freudian ideas of the unconscious were crucial to the formation of modern discourses of subjectivity in areas as diverse as psychology, Islamic philosophy, and the law.

Book Greek Tragedy and the Middle East

Download or read book Greek Tragedy and the Middle East written by Pauline Donizeau and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2024-03-07 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Employing the idea of interculturality to study Middle Eastern adaptations of Greek tragedy from the turn of 20th century until the present day, this book first explores the earlier phase of the development of Greek classical reception in Middle Eastern theatre. It then moves to focus on modern Arabic, Persian and Turkish adaptations of Greek tragedy both in the early post-colonial and contemporary periods in the MENA and in Europe. Case by case, this book examines how the classical sources are reworked and adapted, as well as how they engage with interculturality, hybridisation and the circulation of aesthetics and models. At the same time, it explores the implications and consequences of expressing socio-political concerns through classical Greek sources. While Muslim thinkers and translators introduced Greek philosophy – in particular Aristotle's Poetics – to the West in the Middle Ages, adaptations of Greek tragedies only appeared in the MENA region at the very beginning of the 20th century. For this reason, the development of Greek tragedy in the Middle East is difficult to disentangle from colonialism and cultural imperialism. Encompassing language differences and offering for the first time a broad approach on the Middle-Eastern reception of Greek tragedy, this book produces a renewed focus on a fascinating aspect of the classical tradition.

Book Oedipus the King

    Book Details:
  • Author : Sophocles
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Release : 2012-10-01
  • ISBN : 0226768694
  • Pages : 81 pages

Download or read book Oedipus the King written by Sophocles and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2012-10-01 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Available for the first time as an independent work, David Grene’s legendary translation of Oedipus the King renders Sophocles’ Greek into cogent, vivid, and poetic English for a new generation to savor. Over the years, Grene and Lattimore’s Complete Greek Tragedies have been the preferred choice of millions of readers—for personal libraries, individual study, and classroom use. This new, stand-alone edition of Sophocles’ searing tale of jealousy, rage, and revenge will continue the tradition of the University of Chicago Press’s classic series. Praise for David Grene and Richmond Lattimore’s Complete Greek Tragedies “This is it. No qualifications. Go out and buy it everybody.”—Kenneth Rexroth, Nation “The translations deliberately avoid the highly wrought and affectedly poetic; their idiom is contemporary. . . . They have life and speed and suppleness of phrase.”—Times Education Supplement

Book King Oedipus

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  • Author : Sophocles
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1881
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 78 pages

Download or read book King Oedipus written by Sophocles and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Types of the Folktale in the Arab World

Download or read book Types of the Folktale in the Arab World written by Hasan M. El-Shamy and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 1302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The only demographically oriented tale-type index for folktales of the Arab world

Book A Handbook to the Reception of Greek Drama

Download or read book A Handbook to the Reception of Greek Drama written by Betine van Zyl Smit and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2016-02-29 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Handbook to the Reception of Greek Drama offers a series of original essays that represent a comprehensive overview of the global reception of ancient Greek tragedies and comedies from antiquity to the present day. Represents the first volume to offer a complete overview of the reception of ancient drama from antiquity to the present Covers the translation, transmission, performance, production, and adaptation of Greek tragedy from the time the plays were first created in ancient Athens through the 21st century Features overviews of the history of the reception of Greek drama in most countries of the world Includes chapters covering the reception of Greek drama in modern opera and film

Book Arab Folktales from Palestine and Israel

Download or read book Arab Folktales from Palestine and Israel written by and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arab Folktales from Palestine and Israel is a collection of twenty-eight tales with insight into the Arab culture by Raphael Patai.

Book Cultural Entanglement in the Pre Independence Arab World

Download or read book Cultural Entanglement in the Pre Independence Arab World written by Anthony Gorman and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-11-26 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the ways in which non-Arabic cultural influences interacted with the rich, complex and sometimes conflictual environment of the Arab world in the pre-independence era. It comprises a series of 11 detailed case studies, including topics such as the songs of Egyptian forced labourers in the British Army in World War I, the translation and commentary of an Ottoman text in interwar Palestine, and the contested use of French in the Algerian independence movement, that highlight the complex interplay of colonial pressures, traditional and novel art forms, local and international practices, notions of identity and belonging. The book demonstrates how the interaction between Arabic and non-Arabic cultural and intellectual production as well as influences from imperial Europe and the Islamic East, have in various times and spaces inspired creative tensions which challenge binary views of East-West relations and the standard imperialist-colonial frameworks. In this sense the volume seeks to offer a critique of both established modernising conceptions of cultural development and nationalist, nativist frameworks based on the values of a specific political project.

Book Oedipus Rex

    Book Details:
  • Author : Sophocles
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1867
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 148 pages

Download or read book Oedipus Rex written by Sophocles and published by . This book was released on 1867 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Oedipus Rex

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  • Author : Sophocles
  • Publisher : Prestwick House Inc
  • Release : 2005
  • ISBN : 9781580495936
  • Pages : 75 pages

Download or read book Oedipus Rex written by Sophocles and published by Prestwick House Inc. This book was released on 2005 with total page 75 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To make Oedipus more accessible for the modern reader, our Prestwick House Literary Touchstone Edition? includes a glossary of the more difficult words, as well as convenient sidebar notes to enlighten the reader on aspects that may be confusing or overlooked. We hope that the reader may, through this edition, more fully enjoy the beauty of the verse, the wisdom of the insights, and the impact of the drama.Sophocles? Oedipus Rex has never been surpassed for the raw and terrible power with which its hero struggles to answer the eternal question, "Who am I?" The play, a story of a king who?acting entirely in ignorance?kills his father and marries his mother, unfolds with shattering power; we are helplessly carried along with Oedipus towards the final, horrific truth.This vibrant, new translation invites its readers to lose themselves in the unfolding of this tragic tale?as suspenseful as a detective mystery, yet with an outcome long ago determined by Fate.

Book Theatre and Islam

    Book Details:
  • Author : Marvin Carlson
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
  • Release : 2019-03-16
  • ISBN : 1350316253
  • Pages : 82 pages

Download or read book Theatre and Islam written by Marvin Carlson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-03-16 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This insightful and engaging new title in the Theatre & series explores the various connections between theatre and Islam. Drawing on both historical and recent examples to trace their relationship and offer a new perspective on a topical subject, this persuasive text argues against a long-standing assumption that Islam has worked in opposition to theatrical presentation. From the 13th century puppet plays of Ibn Daniyal to Islamic themes in 21st century productions, Theatre and Islam is chronologically wide-ranging and ambitious in its scope. Ambitious yet concise, this is the perfect introduction for undergraduate and postgraduate students of religious studies, Islamic studies, Middle Eastern studies and drama.

Book Arabs  Politics  and Performance

Download or read book Arabs Politics and Performance written by Roaa Ali and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-09-06 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a ground-breaking collection on contemporary Arab theatre. Through three sections discussing occupation and resistance, diaspora, migration, and refugees, and nationalism and belonging, this study provides nuanced responses to the contested points of intersection between Arab culture and the West, as well as many of the major concerns within contemporary Arab theatre. The collection draws together scholars from the Middle East, North Africa, Europe, and the United States who write about Arab theatre and the representation of Arabs on European and American stages. It introduces concerns in contemporary Arab theatre, the regions in which Arab theatre is performed, and the issues with representations of Arabs onstage. This volume will be of great significance for those interested in expanding the range of global, postcolonial, African, Asian, or diasporic theatre that they study, teach, or stage.

Book Tawfiq Al Hakim

    Book Details:
  • Author : William M. Hutchins
  • Publisher : Lynne Rienner Publishers
  • Release : 2003
  • ISBN : 9780894108853
  • Pages : 298 pages

Download or read book Tawfiq Al Hakim written by William M. Hutchins and published by Lynne Rienner Publishers. This book was released on 2003 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book also includes plot summaries, a chronology of Al-Hakim's life, and a comprehensive annotated bibliography of his oeuvre."--BOOK JACKET.

Book Ottoman Canon and the Construction of Arabic and Turkish Literatures

Download or read book Ottoman Canon and the Construction of Arabic and Turkish Literatures written by C. Ceyhun Arslan and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2024-03-05 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Ottoman Canon and the Construction of Arabic and Turkish Literatures fleshes out the Ottoman canon's multilingual character to call for a literary history that can reassess and even move beyond categories that many critics take for granted, such as 'classical Arabic literature' and 'Ottoman literature'. It gives a historically contextualised close reading of works from authors who have been studied as pionneers of Arabic and Turkish literatures, such as Ziya Pasha, Jurji Zaydan, Ma?ruf al-Rusafi and Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar. The Ottoman Canon analyses how these authors prepared the arguments and concepts that shape how we study Arabic and Turkish literatures today as they reassessed the relationship among the Ottoman canon's linguistic traditions. Furthermore, The Ottoman Canon examines the Ottoman reception of pre-Ottoman poets, such as Kab ibn Zuhayr, hence opening up new research avenues for Arabic literature, Ottoman studies and comparative literature.

Book Brill s Companion to the Reception of Sophocles

Download or read book Brill s Companion to the Reception of Sophocles written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2017-04-03 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brill's Companion to the Reception of Sophocles offers a comprehensive account of the influence, reception and appropriation of all extant Sophoclean plays, as well as the fragmentary Satyr play The Trackers, from Antiquity to Modernity, across cultures and civilizations, encompassing multiple perspectives and within a broad range of cultural trends and manifestations: literature, intellectual history, visual arts, music, opera and dance, stage and cinematography. A concerted work by an international team of specialists in the field, the volume is addressed to a wide and multidisciplinary readership of classical reception studies, from experts to non-experts. Contributors engage in a vividly and lively interactive dialogue with the Ancient and the Modern, which, while illuminating aspects of ancient drama and highlighting their ever-lasting relevance, offers a thoughtful and layered guide of the human condition.

Book Rewriting Narratives in Egyptian Theatre

Download or read book Rewriting Narratives in Egyptian Theatre written by Sirkku Aaltonen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-31 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study of Egyptian theatre and its narrative construction explores the ways representations of Egypt are created of and within theatrical means, from the 19th century to the present day. Essays address the narratives that structure theatrical, textual, and performative representations and the ways the rewriting process has varied in different contexts and at different times. Drawing on concepts from Theatre and Performance Studies, Translation Studies, Cultural Studies, Postcolonial Studies, and Diaspora Studies, scholars and practitioners from Egypt and the West enter into dialogue with one another, expanding understanding of the different fields. The articles focus on the ways theatre texts and performances change (are rewritten) when crossing borders between different worlds. The concept of rewriting is seen to include translation, transformation, and reconstruction, and the different borders may be cultural and national, between languages and dramaturgies, or borders that are present in people’s everyday lives. Essays consider how rewritings and performances cross borders from one culture, nation, country, and language to another. They also study the process of rewriting, the resulting representations of foreign plays on stage, and representations of the Egyptian revolution on stage and in Tahrir Square. This assessment of the relationship between theatre practices, exchanges, and rewritings in Egyptian theatre brings vital coverage to an undervisited area and will be of interest to developments in theatre translation and beyond.