In contradistinction to Anglophone criticism's airbrushing of all things Egyptian/Arab from the iconic image C. P. Cavafy, this essay dwells on poet as an Egyptiote. An Egyptiote orientation, it is argued, variously informs given poems and prose texts in his later years. Probing Cavafy's knowledge Arabic, demonstrates affinities solidarities with Egyptians under colonial duress witnessed choice...

This article examines connections between the Protestant Reformation and American literature and argues that Protestantism’s best expression exists in contemporary iterations of self-reliance. The first part focuses on William Ellery Channing’s and Ralph Waldo Emerson’s literary criticism of John Milton, a poet who represents the Protestant ideals these writers combine with American principles ...

religious view point is a part of social character structure. the religion is made of two parts: the first part is the legal section which is documented by the religious texts and prays and the second part is the issues that the social life has influence on them such as superstition, myths and traditions. one of the phenomenon which have been created because of the social traditions entrance is...

surrealism is a literary school originating in europe, which found its way into the literature of other nations ,including arabic literature and thus having an impact on them. egypt is one of the world's leading arab nations in fiction. egyptian writers’ familiarity with european literature opened a new gate for the literary currents. naguib mahfouz, the great egyptian writer and nobel prize wi...

al-jawahiri, one of the most illustrious contemporary classical poets of iraq, was born in the holy city of najaf to a cultured, scholarly, and cultivated family. the scientific and cultural environment of najaf, the literary and scientific richness of his familial atmosphere, and al-jawahiri’s poetic taste and talent caused him to turn to his predecessor poets’ works, especially the ones from ...

abstract this study aims to examine the use of religion heritage and application of the prophet job’s character mask. one of the important masks that have been used by contemporary poets is the prophet’s masks, especially the job of which the story exists in the quran. this character is a symbol of patience. darvish and sayyab are the most important poets who used the mask of this character.  e...