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Final Exam            Arabic /English Literary Relations                            

Wednesday , January 15, 2003          

Answer Two Questions From Questions A ,B, C.or D,.

Question                                              A

   Mahfuz and Tayyab Salih deal with themes of imperialism or colonization of Africa or Egypt.

 What are the titles of the two texts in which the two novelists present imperialism or colonization?  Analyze their attitudes with examples.

What type of texts ( short stories , plays , romances ,or autobiographies) are these ? Why?

 ****What are themes,****Type of novels  ,***** narrators , and ****protagonists and 

          their oulooks to European characters ?

 

Question                                                         B

Compare and contrast the following two quotations in terms of ***writers ( in detail ), ***titles of texts , ***type of literary genre ,***types of speakers of these quotes ,*** to whom , and the images of Hamlet and Othello in relation to the themes   :

     

       Quote 1: “Yes ,my dear sirs ,I came as an invader into your homes : a drop of poison which you have injected into the veins of history .‘I am no Othello. Othello was a lie ‘”

     

      Quote 2 : “ Don’t bring the curtain down /I am Hamlet without a mask /Blowing up the secrets /Don’t interrupt /I am dying /Don’t laugh you evil people ….”

 

Question                                                          C

Al-Sayyab’s use of the images of Christ is (or is not )borrowed from English poetry. ****Analyze this statement with reference to the following two poems by him :

    

 Quote 1 :   “ And under the palms where every palm branch is raining ,/Bubbles dance as they pop –they are dates /Fallen into the hands of the Virgin as she shakes with eagerness /The trunk of the graceful palm ( your child’s crown is of light not gold ,/The love of others will be crucified in Him ….”

      

 Quote 2 :  “ After they got me down  {from the Cross} I heard / the winds in a long wailing ,sifting the palm trees …./The wounds and the Cross on which /They have nailed me all the dawn long / Did not cause me to die ,….”

*** What are the tiles of these two poems ? What are the sources of the poetry of the  Tamuzi movement that al-Sayyab belongs to? Explain in detail with examples.

 

Question                                                  D

Idris’s Al-Farafir and al-Hakim’s The Fate of a cockroach  represent the influence of the Western Theatre of the Absurd .

 

Explain with examples to **define theatre of the absurd , ** the writers (in detail), **literary genres of these two texts (why ),** themes of these two texts , **and language these texts were written in .

 

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