Ali Zaidi
Transformative Studies Institute, Humanities, Department Member
Research Interests:
Research Interests:
Book Review of Lucy Byng's Roumanian Stories
Research Interests:
Research Interests:
Research Interests:
Dedication of a special issue in memory of Bill Deaver.
THE STATE UNIVERSITY of New York turned fifty in 1998, but its mission-to provide New Yorkers with quality education at low cost-is endangered.
Research Interests:
He has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violat-ing it's (sic) most sacred rights of life & liberty in the per-sons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating & carrying them into slavery in another... more
He has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violat-ing it's (sic) most sacred rights of life & liberty in the per-sons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating & carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere, or to incur miserable death in their ...
Research Interests:
Research Interests:
Research Interests:
Research Interests:
Page 1. When Ismene, level-headed, if intellectually limited, pleads that we who are weak / Are ruled by the stronger (62-63) and refuses, Antigone's rage approximates that of the jilted lover. Ismene, however, may not only ...
Research Interests:
Research Interests:
Research Interests:
In Washington Irving’s “The Mutability of Literature,” the narrator, Geoffrey Crayon, daydreams while visiting the archive in Westminster Abbey. He imagines that an Elizabethan book, printed as a quarto, suddenly comes to life. The quarto... more
In Washington Irving’s “The Mutability of Literature,” the narrator, Geoffrey Crayon, daydreams while visiting the archive in Westminster Abbey. He imagines that an Elizabethan book, printed as a quarto, suddenly comes to life. The quarto speaks to him as a voice from another age, prompting Crayon to meditate on the process of inclusion and exclusion that characterizes the canon. His meditation reveals the archive to be a crypt where past voices are reincarnated, rather than a repository of the intellectual endeavors of dead authors. Crayon discovers that to browse through archives is to reanimate the dead and to encounter the ghostly presence of authors and of their fictional characters.
Research Interests:
It is only in the CREATION that all our ideas and concep-tions of a word of God can unite. The Creation speaketh a universal language, independently of human speech or human language
It is an ever-existing original, which every man can... more
It is only in the CREATION that all our ideas and concep-tions of a word of God can unite. The Creation speaketh a universal language, independently of human speech or human language
It is an ever-existing original, which every man can read. It cannot be forged; ...
An academic directory and search engine.
... dimension fraught with terror. In the tradition of fantasy as metaphysical discovery, the tale concerns a man who becomes estranged from others because of an extraordinary change in his physical properties. The protagonist of ...
Research Interests:
This essay examines Hemingway’s short fiction in the light of Mircea Eliade’s notion of the camouflage of the sacred. Spiritual meaning and love are hidden beneath the dialogue of Hemingway’s characters. In a short play (“Today Is... more
This essay examines Hemingway’s short fiction in the light of Mircea Eliade’s notion of the camouflage of the sacred. Spiritual meaning and love are hidden beneath the dialogue of Hemingway’s characters. In a short play (“Today Is Friday”) and four short stories (“The Killers,” “A Clean Well-Lighted Place,” “Old Man at the Bridge,” and “The Light of the World,” light imagery, biblical allusions, Christological associations, reveal a hidden sacral dimension that has been largely overlooked by critics who dwell on the ostensible spiritual absence that characterizes Hemingway’s fiction.
Keywords: Hemingway, Eliade, short story, the sacred, “The Killers,” “A Clean Well-Lighted Place,” “Old Man at the Bridge,” “The Light of the World,” “Today Is Friday”
Keywords: Hemingway, Eliade, short story, the sacred, “The Killers,” “A Clean Well-Lighted Place,” “Old Man at the Bridge,” “The Light of the World,” “Today Is Friday”
Research Interests:
Miguel de Unamuno’s Abel Sánchez (1917) explores the Cain and Abel archetype. The protagonist of Unamuno’s novel, Joaquín Monegro, undermines the traditional dichotomy between good and evil, as well as the biblical image of Cain as... more
Miguel de Unamuno’s Abel Sánchez (1917) explores the Cain and Abel archetype. The protagonist of Unamuno’s novel, Joaquín Monegro, undermines the traditional dichotomy between good and evil, as well as the biblical image of Cain as sociopath. Although he is forever envious of his friend Abel, Joaquín yearns for transformative knowledge, like Byron’s dramatic character Cain. This essay examines the spiritual rupture of a man that is at once noble and base, and whose inner torment may be his saving grace.
Keywords Unamuno, Abel Sánchez, Cain, archetype, fratricide, jealousy, Byron
Keywords Unamuno, Abel Sánchez, Cain, archetype, fratricide, jealousy, Byron
Research Interests:
In Mircea Eliade’s Men and Stones, two cave explorers, Alexandru and Petrus, seek to imaginatively recreate a distant human dawn after they discover the sacred stones of cave dwellers. The living stones become a metaphor for an eternal... more
In Mircea Eliade’s Men and Stones, two cave explorers, Alexandru and Petrus, seek to imaginatively recreate a distant human dawn after they discover the sacred stones of cave dwellers. The living stones become a metaphor for an eternal dimension of transient humanity and for a sentient universe. The title of this play is taken from the Koran and evokes Alexandru’s crisis of despair in the cave. After he is injured in a fall, Alexandru experiences a revelation that confirms love as a pathway to knowledge and as the surest means of escape from the labyrinth of despair.
Research Interests:
Research Interests:
Research Interests:
ABSTRACT: This essay examines essentialist representation of Hispanic peoples and cultures in three textbooks, Spanish for Secondary Schools (1961), Mi Historia Universal (1978), and Civilización y Cultura (1993). Those textbooks tend to... more
ABSTRACT: This essay examines essentialist representation of Hispanic peoples and cultures in three textbooks, Spanish for Secondary Schools (1961), Mi Historia Universal (1978), and Civilización y Cultura (1993). Those textbooks tend to portray Hispanics as ...