Presentations by Walid M Rihane
Presented in Editing Class at the Lebanese International University on Thursday December 17th 2015
Papers by Walid M Rihane
Ideological Dilemma: Romanticism vs Darwinism in Thomas Hardy's Jude the Obscure, 2019
Acknowledgment "Everybody is so talented nowadays that the only people I care to honour as deserv... more Acknowledgment "Everybody is so talented nowadays that the only people I care to honour as deserving real distinction are those who remain on obscurity" Thomas Hardy-The Hand of Ethelberta. Although it is signed under my name, the achievement of this research would not have been possible without the help and the guidance of many. My everlasting gratitude goes to my mentor and advisor, Dr. Najwa Yousif El Inglizi. This research would not have seen light without your supervision, motivation, and embracement. I am proud to be your first advisee. Thank you for bearing with me. I owe my deepest gratitude to Dr. May Maalouf whose knowledge and encouragement to shift literary studies towards an interdisciplinary scope have influenced the overall structure of this research. I would also like to thank Dr. Naheda Saad for all the help and support she showed during my graduate studies and till the last days of writing this thesis. My gratitude also goes to my friend Elias Semaan, whose endless motivation and support pushed me further to finish this thesis. Finally, I thank my father, Mohammad Rihan, my mother, Sana Nashed, and my twin, Ibrahim Rihan, for all their love and support.
This paper explores how the Lebanese students struggle in the use of “Verbal Discrimination” thro... more This paper explores how the Lebanese students struggle in the use of “Verbal Discrimination” through language. The study discusses how students convey either a racist or a non-racist identity through their talk and conversation. The research addresses the following questions: (1)Do the social background and past experiences play a role in the construction of a "racist identity or non-racist" that are reflected in the language of the speaker? (2) Are these identities formed affected by other cultures and ideologies? (3) How do the "interpretive repertoires" play a role in the formation of the ideology of the speaker? (4) And how is that reflected in his or her surroundings? I argue that as a result of the interpretive repertoires that position the speakers, participants suffer from a struggle in the formation of their identities. Interviews and narratives in the research will aid my argument, supported by theories suggested by pioneers in Discourse Analysis and Discursive Psychology.
The Great Gatsby = GG In many fields, such as cinema, theatre, visual art, and literature "homoer... more The Great Gatsby = GG In many fields, such as cinema, theatre, visual art, and literature "homoeroticism" exists.
Michael Cunningham's 1998 The Hours is an award winning novel which tells the story of three wome... more Michael Cunningham's 1998 The Hours is an award winning novel which tells the story of three women from three different generations. The first story tells the story of British author and feminist Virginia Woolf while she is writing Mrs. Dalloway in the year 1923. The second story circulates around Laura Brown, a 1949 American housewife who is planning a birthday party to her veteran Husband. The third narrative is that of Clarissa Vaughan, a 2001 bisexual woman who is planning a party to celebrate her award-winning poet, homosexual friend, and former lover Richard. There are clear and obvious intertextual elements between Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway and Cunningham's The Hours. One of the major parallel features of both novels is the feminist themes that emerge in the two texts. Originally entitled The Hours, Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway is considered to be "itself a study of female subjectivity" (Guerin, Labor and Morgan 259). To maintain a similar "female subjectivity", Cunningham's The Hours "relates with unnerving clarity the inner lives of three women connected through their experiences with Woolf's novel Mrs. Dalloway" (Guerin, Labor and Morgan 259). Thus, the feminist themes and motifs in the Woolf's and Cunningham's works are obvious. However, not only does Cunningham's The Hours celebrate feminist themes; it also tells the story of Virginia Woolf, Laura
Madness is a recurring theme in many of Shakespearean plays and sonnets. Shakespeare's tragedies ... more Madness is a recurring theme in many of Shakespearean plays and sonnets. Shakespeare's tragedies feature many mad characters. In Othello, for example, the main character, Othello is maddened by Iago while Hamlet in Hamlet pretends to be mad. In Macbeth, however, there are two mad characters: Macbeth and his wife Lady Macbeth. As many of Shakespeare's historic tragedies, Macbeth is recounted from Holinshed's Chronicles. Although the Chronicles provided a ground for Shakespeare to build his play, the character of Macbeth was modified and improvised by Shakespeare himself. Thus, it can be argued that the microcosm of Shakespeare's plays do rely on the macrocosm of the English society during the Elizabethan period. Consequently, Macbeth is the product of Shakespeare's "engineering" rather than English history. However, the mixed madness of guilt and gain in Macbeth are in fact a mirror of the Elizabethan society and the English civilization of the 16 th century.
William Styron's Lie Down in Darkness is a 1951 novel that tells the story of a dysfunctional Vir... more William Styron's Lie Down in Darkness is a 1951 novel that tells the story of a dysfunctional Virginian family-the Loftis. The story mainly revolves around Peyton, Milton and Helen's elder daughter. The events of the story are told through the flashbacks remembered by Milton and Helen on their journey to bury Peyton's body after she has committed suicide. The flashbacks tell the reader about the past events and troubles that the family members have passed through to explain their deteriorated present. Set in 1945, the book reveals many aspects about the structure of modern American society and culture, reflected by the course of events and the characters in the novel. The use of flashbacks and stream-of-consciousness (in Chapter 7), Lie Down in Darkness helps on exposing the psychology of each character, making it possible to approach the text from a psychoanalytic perspective. For many years, the Psychoanalytic Theory, set by Sigmund Freud was used in literature to analyze the psyche of fictional characters-focusing mainly on the sex drive and sexual desires of the characters.
In answering the question "Why teach literature?", Elaine Showalter says that the purpose(s) behi... more In answering the question "Why teach literature?", Elaine Showalter says that the purpose(s) behind teaching literature vary according to class objectives, teachers' objectives, and the overview of the course (24). The author of Teaching Literature says that the purposes may be political, philosophical, moral, pedagogical, or just for pleasure. Thus, setting the objectives behind a course or a lesson is an essential starting point that draws the structure and the form that the class will take in the coming time. Whether the teacher wants her or his students to either build an understanding of the themes of a literary work, or to read just for the sake of pleasure, objectives do govern the teachers' whole plan. In answering the exact same question on "Why teach literature?" Beach et. al. say that the purpose behind teaching literature governs the choice of literary text and course textbooks, the evaluation of the students, what teaching method will the teacher use, and "how the [teacher] will foster student participation [. . .] in the classroom" (5). It can be deduced then that the relation between the purpose or the objective of the course or class and the employed teaching methods along with the evaluation and the choice of texts is a complementary one. Based on the information that have preceded, this paper will discuss planning a timeline and a methodology for teaching Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlett Letter for an assumed high school class. The plan will focus on the methodology of teaching, the timeline of the course, the material used, the evaluation form, the activities, and the assignments.
According to Cinematographer Christopher , cinematography is capable of translating ideas and tho... more According to Cinematographer Christopher , cinematography is capable of translating ideas and thoughts into images expressed in a space. The film In the Mood for Love by Kar Wai Wong is considered to be the perfect example for what Doyle talks about in terms of translating abstract notions into visual ones. Although there was no direct physical contact between the two protagonists, the film portrays a simple love story of two betrayed neighbours through displaying this simple love story as a grand poetic one through the focus on camera movement, frames, lights, colour, location, depth of field, and set design.
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Presentations by Walid M Rihane
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