... book gives the reader a different perspective on Islamic life than one tends to get from today's media. You will hear Muslims described in appropriate human terms (good and bad) as opposed to the stereotypical and fanatical terms we often hear today. It reads like a history lesson, a travel essay, and a novel wrapped up into one. Hearing the Alhambra Palace described as a place of ... see in Leo's manuscript the images of Leo Africanus and his Africa haunting the spaces between Maalouf's rootedness - the territoriality of his poetry - and his route-work, the countervailing imagistic ten...

• Word Count: 4697
• Approx Pages: 19
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... is approached as rhetorical systems rather than statements of doctrine, it is, I think, significant as critical conceptions of the novel as those of a writer defining his genre in his own terms - dialogically, rhetorically, and artistically, as a novelist would. It is these rhetorical maneuvers, not the stated philosophy, that collectively constitute Lawrence's coherent critical vision of the novel as a genre ... the initial statement and deferring its meaning, becomes a crucial recurrent feature of his genre theory. Lawrence's critical style in "Why the Novel Matters" is, to use J. L. ...

• Word Count: 1195
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... break away from the dominance of the female principle to experience a greater sense of individuality and contact with otherness. The world is changing but the men have difficulty coming to terms with it. In the various relationships that make up The Rainbow, women tend to dominate men in whom there is an imbalance between the male and female principles and as ... is clearly one of the most ambitious of Lawrence's novels. It is experimental in both form and content; like much modernist writing it undermines any simple distinction between prose and poetry, realism and symbolism. It confro...

• Word Count: 1985
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... to escape their stronghold over literature. Certain texts are indeed recognised subconsciously as belonging to a more respected class of literature than others. For example, the lofty status of the medieval poetry of Chaucer, of Shakespeare and Marlowe's renaissance plays, of Dickens and Hardy's austere Victorian novels might be among those cited by what society might consider a well read citizen. These works ... disseminating texts by their "goodness- . Texts become increasingly reproducible if they are popular with the readers who receive them. It is in the nature of literature to und...

• Word Count: 2215
• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... which, whatever their subject, and is 'notable for literary form or expression'. Here the criterion is either aesthetic worth alone or worth in combination with general intellectual distinction. Within lyric poetry, drama, and fiction, the greatest works are selected on aesthetic aesthetic grounds; other books are picked for their reputation or intellectual eminence together with aesthetic value of a rather narrow kind ... usually much briefer than that of poets, playwrights, and novelists, are rarely limited to their strictly aesthetic merits. In practice, we get automatic and unprofes...

• Word Count: 660
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: Undergraduate