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Updated July 23, 2024
University of Victoria Libraries
Justin Harrison, Humanities Librarian, University of Victoria
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The essential Tawfiq al-Hakim plays, fiction, autobiography
Hakim, Tawfiq.
Paper Book
The importance of Tawfiq al-Hakim (1898 to 1989) to the emergence of a modern Arabic literature is second only to that of Naguib Mahfouz. If the latter put the novel among the genres of writing that are now an accepted part of literary production in the Arab world today, Tawfiq al-Hakim is...
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From fiction to the novel
Day, Geoffrey.
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The graying of the raven cultural and sociopolitical significance of Algerian folk poetry
Bamia, Aida A.
Ebook
From East to West The raven has turned gray O Reader of the unknown Help us in our ordeal! With a fine touch, Aida Bamia has explored the work of Muhammad bin al-Tayyib 'Alili (c.1894 c.1954), a hitherto virtually unknown oral poet of Algeria, bringing to her analysis new understanding of folk...
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House of the wolf
Qamhawi, Izzat
Ebook
Winner of the 2012 Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature, this novel is set in an idyllic Egyptian village from the time it was discovered by Muhammad Ali's mission in the early nineteenth century to the 2003 US invasion of Iraq, movingly intertwining events on the world scene with the life dramas of...
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More than a game the computer game as fictional form
Atkins, Barry.
Paper Book
The first academic work dedicated to the study of computer games in terms of the stories they tell and the manner of their telling. Applies practices of reading texts from literary and cultural studies to consider the computer game as an emerging mode of contemporary storytelling in an accessible,...
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Pulp fictions of medieval England : essays in popular romance
McDonald, Nicola.
Paper Book
Pulp Fictions of Medieval England demonstrates that popular romance not only merits and rewards serious critical attention, but that we ignore it to the detriment of our understanding of the complex and conflicted world of medieval England.
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Traveling in Mark Twain
Bridgman, Richard.
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