Title: Literary inter-relations, Ireland, Egypt, and the Far East /
Authors: Masʻūd, Mārī.; International Association for the Study of Anglo-Irish Literature.
Date: 1996
Publisher: Colin Smythe,
Physical description: x, 426 pages ; 23 cm.
Language: English
LC classification: P
Contents: Foreword / Mary Massoud -- Literary Parallels: Eighteenth Century Anglo-Irish Literature and Twentieth Century Egyptian Literature / Mary Massoud -- The Big House in Mahfouz's The Count Down and Jennifer Johnston's Fool's Sanctuary / Waffia Mursi -- Folk Narrative Motifs in Egyptian, Irish, and Native American Folklore and Literature / Maureen Murphy -- Irish Mythology, Eastern Philosophy and Literary Modernism in James Stephens' The Crock of Gold / Thomas Kullmann -- The Use of Myth, Parable, and Folk Tale in Flann O'Brien's At Swim-Two-Birds and Etedal Othman's The Sun's Tattoo / Aziza Hafez -- Lafcadio Hearn's Kwaidan and Japanese Mythologies of the Dead / Yoshiichi Watarai -- Irish Folktales and Beckett's Molloy: A Study in Tropism / Dele Layiwola -- Androgynous Bloom: Forerunners in Irish and Egyptian Folk Tradition / Miceal Ross -- Donald O'Nery and Goha in Folktales of Ireland and Egypt / Magda Haroun -- The Heroic Ideal in Brendan Kennelly's Poetry / Ake Persson -- The Nature of the Beast: Yeats and the Shadow / Nicholas Meihuizen -- Portraits of a Mask: Wilde, Joyce, and Mishima / Motoko Ono -- Odi Et Amo: Deirdre, Grania and Lady Gregory / Giovanna Tallone -- The Factual and the Imaginary in Thomas Moore's Egyptian Tale, The Epicurean / Samira Basta -- Form and Ideology in the Anglo-Irish Novel / Terry Eagleton -- The Gregorys and Egypt, 1855-56 and 1881-82 / Colin Smythe -- Regionalism and Cultural Marginalism: The New England Irish in O'Neill's Late Plays / Martha Bower -- Friel and Beckett: The Politics of Language / Deborah Cottreau -- The Autobiography of an Irish Rebel: Brendan Behan's Borstal Boy / Etaf A. Elbanna -- Contemporary Poetry of Northern Ireland: Recovery of Political Interest and Social Concern / Toshi Furomoto -- Yeats and the National Longing for Form / Declan Kiberd -- Shaw, Egypt and the Empire / Nicholas Grene -- Swift and Conrad: Gamekeepers Make Great Poachers / Martin J. Croghan -- Colonialism in Honor Tracy's 'Irish' Novel, A Number of Things / Nadia Khallaf -- Charles Robert Maturin and Colonialism / Heinz Kosok -- The Re-enactment of Colonialism in James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man / Evine Hashem -- Irish Nationalism and the Anglo-Irish: Historical and Literary Parallels to Afrikanerdom / J. A. Wessels -- George Moore's Muslin and Abdel Rahman Al-Sharqawi's The Earth: Novels of Social Protest / Mona H. Mones -- Cracks in the Edifice of National Consciousness: Tawfik Elhakim's Bird of the East and Elizabeth Bowen's The Last September / Samia Kholoussy -- The City Versus the Village / Richard Allen Cave -- Death in Urban and Rural Poems of Thomas Kinsella / Nawal Mursi -- Paradise Revisited: Representation of the Rural in Irish and Egyptian Film / Maureen Kiernan -- The Provincial Scene in Edward Martyn's The Heather Field and Maeve / Mustafa Riyadh -- The Untilled Field: Harvesting the Seeds of Discontent? / Barbara Freitag -- The City and the Crisis of Identity in the Bildungsroman of Mahfouz and O'Faolain / Shadia S. Fahim -- The Symbolic Significance of Place in Brian Friel's Philadelphia, Here I Come and Mahmoud Diab's A Messenger from the Village of Temira / Amal Aly Mazhar -- The Spatial Role of the Village and the City in Thomas Murphy's Bailegangaire and Yussuf Idris's Al-Naddaha / Mona El-Halawany.
Notes: Proceedings of the 1993 Conference of the International Association for the Study of Anglo-Irish Literature, held in Cairo, Egypt.
Subject headings (LCSH): Asia--In literature--Congresses.; Comparative literature--Asian and Irish--Congresses.; Comparative literature--Egyptian and Irish--Congresses.; Comparative literature--Foreign and Irish--Congresses.; Comparative literature--Irish and Asian--Congresses.; Comparative literature--Irish and Egyptian--Congresses.; Comparative literature--Irish and foreign--Congresses.; Egypt--In literature--Congresses.; English literature--Irish authors--Asian influences--Congresses.; English literature--Irish authors--Egyptian influences--Congresses.; English literature--Irish authors--History and criticism--Congresses.; Ireland--In literature--Congresses.; Ireland--Intellectual life--Congresses.; Literature, Modern--Irish influences--Congresses.