Dystopia in Arabic Speculative Fiction
Dystopia in Arabic Speculative Fiction

Author: Wessam Elmeligi

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2023-08-29

Total Pages: 169

ISBN-13: 1000925382

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Dystopia in Arabic Speculative Fiction: A Poetics of Distress unpacks the nuanced Arabic contribution to speculative fiction. Part of a larger project by Elmeligi to formulate a poetics of literary theory to read Arabic literature, this book examines Arabic dystopian fiction from the lens of social causes of psychological distress. The selected novels combine works by authors already established in studies by Western scholars and many that have not been translated before or have not received enough scholarly attention, yet. The novels represent an array of Arab countries, including Algerian, Egyptian, Jordanian, Kuwaiti, Mauritanian, Syrian, and Tunisian authors. It also highlights the contribution of women authors to Arabic speculative fiction. This book enriches the conversation about what is quite possibly a significant speculative fiction turn in the Arabic novel, as well as provides a new theoretical approach to read such complex and innovative literature.

Re-Configurations
Re-Configurations

Author: Rachid Ouaissa

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2020-10-13

Total Pages: 284

ISBN-13: 3658311606

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This edited volume is an open access title and assembles both the historical consciousness and transformation of the MENA region in various disciplinary and topical facets. At the same time, it aims to go beyond the MENA region, contributing to critical debates on area studies while pointing out transregional and cultural references in a broad and comparative manner.

Tragedy Since 9/11
Tragedy Since 9/11

Author: Jennifer Wallace

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2019-09-05

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 1350035637

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From the trauma of September 11th, through the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, to the aftermath of the Arab Spring and the environmental warning signs of climate change, this book reflects on the crises and terrifying events of the early 21st century and argues that a knowledge of tragedy from the works of Sophocles to Shakespeare to Samuel Beckett can help us understand them. Jennifer Wallace offers a cultural analysis of the tragic events of the past two decades with reference to a litany of key dramatic texts, including Aeschylus' Oresteia, Euripides' Hecuba, Iphigenia in Aulis, Trojan Women and Bacchae, Homer's Iliad, Ibsen's Emperor and Galilean and Enemy of the People, and Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, Macbeth and King Lear, among others.

Focus on Egypt
Focus on Egypt

Author: Ernest Emenyo̲nu

Publisher: Boydell & Brewer

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 340

ISBN-13: 1847011713

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As well as a rare examination of Egyptian literature, this volume includes a non-themed section of Featured Articles and a Literary Supplement.

Three Courses on Partial Differential Equations
Three Courses on Partial Differential Equations

Author: Eric Sonnendrücker

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter

Published: 2008-08-22

Total Pages: 171

ISBN-13: 3110200074

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Modeling, in particular with partial differential equations, plays an ever growing role in the applied sciences. Hence its mathematical understanding is an important issue for today's research. This book provides an introduction to three different topics in partial differential equations arising from applications. The subject of the first course by Michel Chipot (Zurich) is equilibrium positions of several disks rolling on a wire. In particular, existence and uniqueness of and the exact position for an equilibrium are discussed. The second course by Josselin Garnier (Toulouse) deals with problems arising from acoustics and geophysics where waves propagate in complicated media, the properties of which can only be described statistically. It turns out that if the different scales presented in the problem can be separated, there exists a deterministic result. The third course by Otared Kavian (Versailles St.-Quentin) is devoted to so-called inverse problems where one or several parameters of a partial differential equation need to be determined by using, for instance, measurements on the boundary of the domain. The question that arises naturally is what information is necessary to determine the unknown parameters. This question is answered in different settings. The text is addressed to students and researchers with a basic background in partial differential equations.

Nonlinear Evolution Equations and Related Topics
Nonlinear Evolution Equations and Related Topics

Author: Wolfgang Arendt

Publisher: Birkhäuser

Published: 2012-12-06

Total Pages: 803

ISBN-13: 3034879245

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Philippe Bénilan was a most original and charismatic mathematician who had a deep and decisive impact on the theory of Nonlinear Evolution Equations. Dedicated to him, Nonlinear Evolution Equations and Related Topics contains research papers written by highly distinguished mathematicians. They are all related to Philippe Benilan's work and reflect the present state of this most active field. The contributions cover a wide range of nonlinear and linear equations.