Papers by Ibrahim Shalabi
Written against an intensely social conscious background of 1930s America, Langston Hughes' r... more Written against an intensely social conscious background of 1930s America, Langston Hughes' record breaking play Mulatto: A Tragedy of the Deep South, has to its credit 373 performances on Broadway. The play deals with a theme much too familiar to the audiences – the stereotyped notion of prejudices based on racial discrimination. The play is also remarkable in the sense that it brings about a culmination of sorts in the Negro Drama as it provides the much needed impetus to, at least, bring about a change in the age – old African-American sensibility by making the whites admit that the blacks were indeed victims. In the play, Norwood, a stereotyped representative of the white people, typifies this view, but resists any change at any front in the then prevalent scenario. However, what is important is the effort on the part of Robert, the mulatto protagonist, who succeeds in challenging the Norwood kind of mentality and thereby making the latter accept many of the things that had ...
Asian Social Science, 2011
Utopian themes reflect the spirit of the age which produces them, and echo its problems, ailments... more Utopian themes reflect the spirit of the age which produces them, and echo its problems, ailments and concerns. Ages of helplessness and despair produce myths of wishful thinking and escape, such as, the myths of the Golden Age and the Earthly Paradise. An age of social instability and widespread discontent and frustration begets literary social utopias of social stability and universal contentment, such as, More's Utopia and other Renaissance utopias. An age of steady progress and prosperity inspires utopias of ambitious hopes of perfection as H.G. Well's Men like Gods and William Morris' News from Nowhere. The twentieth century in which change has madly pace and the necessary adjustments have a frustrating slow pace has created either utopias of men like gods or dystopia of men like beasts, such as, Zamyatin's We, and Orwell's Nineteen Eighty Four.
This paper seeks to shed light on the technique and style of Thackeray’s major novels Vanity Fair... more This paper seeks to shed light on the technique and style of Thackeray’s major novels Vanity Fair (1848), Pendennis (1848–1850), The History of Henry Esmond (1852), and The New comes (1855). The paper discusses the merits of each of the above mentioned work and concludes that each novel has its unique style, plot and characters.
Journal of Language …, 2011
The purpose of this paper is to assess the current status of English-Arabic Contrastive Analysis ... more The purpose of this paper is to assess the current status of English-Arabic Contrastive Analysis (CA) in Iraqi universities & to suggest some redefinitions of the goals of this analysis accordingly. A sample of 25 theses that have been randomly chosen has been investigated and chronologically appended. The historical background will have a bird's eye view on the various phases CA in general has undergone so far. One of the limitations is consulting English references only, admitting that Arab scholars did have their own contribution as well.
Coleridge's Criticism
Asian Social Science, 2010
The present paper is an attempt to explore Coleridge's critical potentialities and significa... more The present paper is an attempt to explore Coleridge's critical potentialities and significant contributions to literary theory and criticism. The first question that will be stressed here is the reasons, conscious and unconscious alike, that have driven a leading romantic poet of ...
Asian Social Science, 2011
Utopian themes reflect the spirit of the age which produces them, and echo its problems, ailments... more Utopian themes reflect the spirit of the age which produces them, and echo its problems, ailments and concerns. Ages of helplessness and despair produce myths of wishful thinking and escape, such as, the myths of the Golden Age and the Earthly Paradise. An age of social instability and widespread discontent and frustration begets literary social utopias of social stability and universal contentment, such as, More's Utopia and other Renaissance utopias. An age of steady progress and prosperity inspires utopias of ambitious hopes of perfection as H.G. Well's Men like Gods and William Morris' News from Nowhere. The twentieth century in which change has madly pace and the necessary adjustments have a frustrating slow pace has created either utopias of men like gods or dystopia of men like beasts, such as, Zamyatin's We, and Orwell's Nineteen Eighty Four.
Eliot's Juvenilia : An Appraisal = تقييم نقدي لجوقينيلية إليوت
مجلة الزرقاء للبحوث و الدراسات الإنسانية, 2015
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