Autumn Quail

Author : Naguib Mahfouz
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2016-06-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780525431664

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Autumn Quail by Naguib Mahfouz Pdf

Autumn Quail is a tale of moral responsibility, alienation, and political downfall featuring a corrupt young bureaucrat, Isa ad-Dabbagh, who is one of the early victims of the purge after the 1952 Revolution in Egypt. The conflict between his emotional instincts and his gradual intellectual acceptance of the Revolution forms the framework for a remarkable portrait of the clash between past and present, a portrait that is ultimately an optimistic one in which the two will peacefully coexist.

Author : Naguib Mahfouz
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2016-06-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780525432036

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The Beggar, The Thief and the Dogs, Autumn Quail by Naguib Mahfouz Pdf

Anchor proudly presents a new omnibus volume of three novels--previously published separately by Anchor--by Naguib Mahfouz, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. Assembled here is a collection of Mahfouz's artful meditations on the vicissitudes of post-Revolution Egypt. Diverse in style and narrative technique, together they render a rich, nuanced, and universally resonant vision of modern life in the Middle East. The Beggar is a complex tale of alienation and despair. In the aftermath of Nasser's revolution, a man sacrifices his work and family to a series of illicit love affairs. Released from jail in post-Revolutionary times, the hero ofThe Thief and the Dogs blames an unjust society for his ill fortune, eventually bringing himself to destruction. Autumn Quail is a tale of moral responsibility, isolation, and political downfall about a corrupt bureaucrat who is one of the early victims of the purge after the 1952 revolution in Egypt.

Author : Aldo Starker Leopold
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0520033620

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The California Quail by Aldo Starker Leopold Pdf

This well-illustrated, comprehensive book summarizes what is known about the history, biology, and management of the California Quail. "The California Quail" is the definitive work on this beautiful bird.

Author : Hassan Abdel-Shafik Hassan Gadalla
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2017-05-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781443893701

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Translating Tenses in Arabic-English and English-Arabic Contexts by Hassan Abdel-Shafik Hassan Gadalla Pdf

This volume is devoted to the translation of Arabic tenses into English, and English tenses into Arabic. Using a corpus of 1,605 examples, it is remarkably exhaustive in its treatment of the categories and forms of both Standard Arabic and English tenses. As such, it represents a useful reference for translators and linguistics researchers. With 260 example sentences and their translations, the book will be very beneficial to teachers and students of Arabic-English and English-Arabic translation. The book is divided into eight chapters. The first presents the variety of Arabic that will be studied and explains why translation should be a text-oriented process. Chapter Two deals with the differences between tense and aspect in Arabic and English, respectively. Chapter Three proposes a model for translating Standard Arabic perfect verbs into English based on their contextual references. The fourth chapter shows the contextual clues that can assist a translator in selecting the proper English equivalents of Arabic imperfect verbs. Chapter Five deals with the translation of Arabic active participles into English. Translating Arabic passive participles into English is handled in Chapter Six. The seventh chapter tackles the translation of English simple and progressive tenses into Arabic. Chapter Eight provides an approach to the translation of English perfect and perfect progressive tenses into Standard Arabic.

Author : Naguib Mahfouz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 147 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9774240081

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Autumn Quail by Naguib Mahfouz Pdf

Author : Perri Giovannucci
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781135904982

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Literature and Development in North Africa by Perri Giovannucci Pdf

The book examines how modern global development largely privileges Western multinational interests at the expense of local or indigenous concerns in the "developing" nations of the East. The practices of development have mostly led not to economic, social, and political progressivism in local society but rather to instability, poverty, debt, and repression. "Modernization" may therefore be seen as the catalyst of anti-Western reaction. The record of exploitative "development" is traceable in the anti-colonial works of Frantz Fanon, Albert Memmi, and Jean-Paul Sartre, as well as in the fiction and memoirs of several North African authors, including Albert Camus, Naguib Mahfouz, Nawal El Saadawi, Assia Djebar, and Edward Said, who address decolonization in the middle twentieth century. The critical regard of development provides better understanding of the independence movements in North Africa. Further, one may look to the colonial past for perspective upon global development today. One sees similar practices and rhetoric are now invoked under "globalization." This recognition is key to understanding today’s so-called "war on terror." The understanding of things "postcolonial" is therefore critical for Americans today. Grounded in literature in English translation, this work has relevance for cultural studies in the Middle East, Africa, globalization, postcolonialism, and women’s studies.

Author : Emily Drumsta
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2024-02-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780520390201

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Ways of Seeking by Emily Drumsta Pdf

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. In Ways of Seeking, Emily Drumsta traces the influence of detective fiction on the twentieth-century Arabic novel. Theorizing a “poetics of investigation,” she shows how these novels, far from staging awe-inspiring feats of logical deduction, mock the truth-seeking practices on which modern exercises of colonial and national power are often premised. Their narratives return to the archives of Arabic folklore, Islamic piety, and mysticism to explore less coercive ways of knowing, seeing, and seeking. Drumsta argues that scholars of the Middle East neglect the literary at their peril, overlooking key critiques of colonialism from the intellectuals who shaped and responded through fiction to the transformations of modernity. This book ultimately tells a different story about the novel’s place in the constellation of Arab modernism, modeling an innovative method of open-ended inquiry based on the literary texts themselves.

Author : Anthony Hirst,Michael Silk
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 431 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2017-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351959599

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Alexandria, Real and Imagined by Anthony Hirst,Michael Silk Pdf

Alexandria, Real and Imagined offers a complex portrait of an extraordinary city, from its foundation in the fourth century BC up to the present day: a city notable for its history of ethnic diversity, for the legacies of its past imperial grandeur - Ottoman and Arab, Byzantine, Roman and Greek - and, not least, for the memorable images of 'Alexandria' constructed both by outsiders and by inhabitants of the city. In this volume of new essays, Alexandria and its many images - the real and the imagined - are illuminated from a rich variety of perspectives. These range from art history to epidemiology, from social and cultural analysis to re-readings of Cavafy and Callimachus, from the impressions of foreign visitors to the evidence of police records, from the constructions of Alexandria in Durrell and Forster to those in the twentieth-century Arabic novel.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 586 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1858
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:555012952

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The St. James's medley; or, Fiction, facts, and fancies, from the roadside of life by Anonim Pdf

Author : Najīb Maḥfūẓ
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9774240081

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Autumn Quail by Najīb Maḥfūẓ Pdf

Author : United States Cartridge Company
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Hunting
ISBN : UCAL:$B271409

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Where to Hunt American Game by United States Cartridge Company Pdf

Author : Deborah Starr
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2009-06-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135974060

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Remembering Cosmopolitan Egypt by Deborah Starr Pdf

Remembering Cosmopolitan Egypt examines the link between cosmopolitanism in Egypt, from the nineteenth century through to the mid-twentieth century, and colonialism. While it has been widely noted that such a relationship exists, the nature and impact of this dynamic is often overlooked. Taking a theoretical, literary and historical approach, the author argues that the notion of the cosmopolitan is inseparable from, and indebted to, its foundation in empire. Since the late 1970s a number of artistic works have appeared that represent the diversity of ethnic, national, and religious communities present in Egypt in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. During this period of direct and indirect European domination, the cosmopolitan society evident in these texts thrived. Through detailed analysis of these texts, which include contemporary novels written in Arabic and Hebrew as well as Egyptian films, the implications of the close relationship between colonialism and cosmopolitanism are explored. This comparative study of the contemporary literary and cultural revival of interest in Egypt’s cosmopolitan past will be of interest to students of Middle Eastern Studies, Literary and Cultural Studies and Jewish Studies.

Author : Alan Pilkington
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2006-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780595399048

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Four of Diamonds by Alan Pilkington Pdf

In the early 1920s, a young Australian named Rex Rivington abandons his education and leaves his comfortable family home in Melbourne to lead a colourful, but directionless life in the outback. He eventually recognizes his ambition to be a medical doctor, and he rejects his itinerant life to resume his education. Rex wins it big in a poker game with a four of diamonds, enabling him to bankroll his education. He finishes medical school, but his plan to further his education and study surgery in Scotland is thwarted by the Second World War. Adventure and tragedy dominate his wartime postings in remote outback towns in Queensland and the Northern Territory, and he eventually settles into a country practice in Victoria, becoming a much loved country doctor. Four of Diamonds: An Australian's Journey is a moving story of triumph and tragedy in a time of transition in Australia, as well as a saga of one man's dedication to his dream.

Author : Steven D. Carter
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0804722129

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Traditional Japanese Poetry by Steven D. Carter Pdf

This anthology brings together in convenient form a rich selection of Japanese poetry in traditional genres dating from the earliest times to the 20th century. With more than 1,100 poems, it is the most varied and comprehensive selection of traditional Japanese poetry now available in English. A romanized Japanese text accompanies each poem, and the book is illustrated with 20 line drawings.

Author : Artemidorus
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2020-01-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780192518873

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The Interpretation of Dreams by Artemidorus Pdf

'Dreams are products of the mind, and do not come from any external source' Artemidorus' The Interpretation of Dreams (Oneirocritica) is the richest and most vivid pre-Freudian account of dream interpretation, and the only dream-book to have survived complete from Graeco-Roman times. Written in Greek around AD 200, when dreams were believed by many to offer insight into future events, the work is a compendium of interpretations of dreams on a wide range of subjects relating to the natural, human, and divine worlds. It includes the meanings of dreams about the body, sex, eating and drinking, dress, the weather, animals, the gods, and much else. Artemidorus' technique of dream interpretation stresses the need to know the background of the dreamer, such as occupation, health, status, habits, and age, and the work is a fascinating social history, revealing much about ancient life, culture, and beliefs, and attitudes to the dominant power of Imperial Rome. Martin Hammond's fine translation is accompanied by a lucid introduction and explanatory notes by Peter Thonemann, which assist the reader in understanding this important work, which was an influence on both Sigmund Freud and Michel Foucault.