Time's fool : essays in context / by A. Clare Brandabur ; edited by Barry Charles Tharaud.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brandabur, A. Clare, author.

Contributor:

Tharaud, Barry Charles, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English language--Rhetoric--Problems, exercises, etc.

English language.

Report writing--Problems, exercises, etc.

Report writing.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (652 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne, England : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016.

Summary:

Time's Fool: Essays in Context is a collection of essays on a broad range of topics, from Gilgamesh to James Joyce - and beyond: to Kazuo Ishiguro, Michael Ondaatje, Yaşar Kemal, Cormac McCarthy, Abdulrahman Munif, and many others. Time's Fool is a memorial to the life work of A. Clare Brandabur, who walked away from a tenure-track teaching position at the University of Illinois to embark on a career of teaching in Middle Eastern universities in Jordan, Syria, Bahrain, occupied Palestine, Cyprus, Ankara, and finally Istanbul, where she taught for the last decade and a half of her life. Had Clare stayed with a career at a "Research I" university in the United States, her scholarship would have been far less rich and free-wheeling - more narrow, concentrated, and specialized - and she would not have been able to help and inspire her graduate and undergraduate students from the Near East and, especially during her last five or six years at Fatih University, from around the world.The essays are organized into five main groups, from "Gender and Family Relations" and "Ecocriticism," to "Colonialism and Post-Colonialism," "Colonialism and Ireland," and "Colonialism, Palestine, Genocide"; and a final 'catch-all' section of "Miscellaneous Essays" that includes Gilgamesh, T.E. Lawrence, Yaşar Kemal, Graham Green, and modern theory. There are also sub-categories that transcend the six sections, such as Arab Literature, Catholicism, Women's Studies, and Mythology - something for everyone, in short.Clare's essays give a sense of her breadth of scholarship and her very rich play of mind, but the real monument to her life's work is in the hearts and minds of the students from around the world whom she influenced.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Dedicatory Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part I: Gender and Family Relations

Woman's Image Transformed

Images of Women in Five Post-Colonial Novels

Hidden Agendas

Love Stories of Restraint

Kazuo Ishiguro's The Unconsoled

Jean Genet and the Quest for the Lost Mother

Part II: Ecological Criticism (Ecocriticism)

Byron's "Darkness

Ecological Dimensions in the Works of Yasar Kemal and Abdulrahman Munif

Stalking the Ruined Landscape

Part III: Colonialism and Post-Colonialism

Laughing with Thieves

Missing History in Jane Austen's Mansfield Park

Indentity Lost and Found

The Oriental as Absence in Minghella's The English Patient

Momumental Ambivalence

Waguih Ghali and Amitav Ghosh

Review Essay

Part IV: Colonialism and Ireland

Iris Murdoch as an Anglo-Irish Noelist

Arabic Sources of Yeats' Byzantium Poems

Wuthering Heights

The Elephant in the Room

The conscience of my race

Part V: Colonialism, Palestine, Genocide Studies

Folkore, Myth, and Religion

Ideology in George Eliot's Daniel Deronda

Meditations on Ishmael

Review

Palestine's Silenced Spring

Roadmap to Genocide

Reflections on Exile

Part VI: Miscellaneous Essays

The Hero with a Thousand Faces in Yasar Kemal's Tirlogy, The Wind from the Plain

Graham Greene as a Catholic Novelist

Worlding" (Post) Modernism

Problems of Genre in The Seven Pillars of Wisdom

Death and Dying in Gilgamesh

Part VII: In Memoriam

Remembrances

A Poem By Dr. Carl Boon: "HEY, DR. CLARE".

Notes:

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ISBN:

1-4438-9422-2

OCLC:

952337297