Sahar Khalifeh, a Palestinian academician and novelist, explores in her narratives, among other things, the impact of occupation on the day-to-day life of Palestinians in their cities and villages. In her 1980 Sunflower, Khalifeh vividly portrays the city of Nablus from the viewpoints of several male and female characters who see the city and themselves under occupation from the perspectives of class, gender, ethnicity and situatedness. Cut off from the outside by military occupation, cordoned by hostile settlements, and impaired sexually and emotionally, the city and its inhabitants in Khalifeh’s narrative suffer from excessive atrophy.
Perhaps this is a subject for a catalog rather than for a short paper. The poet will have the usual problems of making a living--problems which everyone who works has to face--and these will be complicated by the fact that he must try to live two lives at once: as a revolutionary and as a revolutionary poet. He must buy time for the second life since he is a pre-capitalist type and not a producer of commodities. He will have the usual problems with the police and with blacklists--with whatever kinds of repression are of the mode for the time in which he lives as modified by the levels of organization of class struggle.
Don Quixote is the first great modern paranoid adventurer. . . . Grandiosity and persecution define the characters of Swift's Gulliver, Stendhal's Julien Sorel, Melville's Ahab, Dostoyevsky's Underground Man, Ibsen's Masterbuilder Solness, Strindberg's Captain (in The Father), Kafka's K., and Joyce's autobiographical hero Stephen Dedalus. . . .
Routledge Companion to Critical Theory is an indispensable aid for anyone approaching this exciting field of study for the first time.
By exploring ideas from a diverse range of disciplines ‘theory’ encourages us to develop a deeper understanding of how we approach the written word. This book defines what is generically referred to as ‘critical theory’, and guides readers through some of the most complex and fundamental concepts in the field, ranging from Historicism to Postmodernism, from Psychoanalytic Criticism to Race and Postcoloniality.