Dina Salman

University of Jordan | UJ · Department of English Language and Literature

This paper adopts Mona Baker's narrative theory to examine the translation of Susan Abulhawa's Mornings in Jenin. In her work in English, Abulhawa provides her autonomous account of the story of the Israeli occupation of Palestine. The paper uses narrative theory to explore how the translator reframes the conflict by accentuating the parts portrayi...

Objectives: This paper aims to investigate how the inherent taste in Shakespeare can change through the teaching of the very core of English heritage; Shakespeare, by applying critical pedagogy as a method which in its turn diminishes superiority of the value and taste that is given to his name. Methods: It argues that teaching through the usage of...

Objectives: This study aims at examining the portrayal of hope through the lens of Affect theory. The objective of this study is to examine the way that hope motivates the characters of the novel to behave. The study also aims at examining how hope as an emotion does not bring about an optimistic outlook in the world of the novel, but rather create...

This paper argues that the major catalyst behind Briony Tallis’ rape accusation in Atonement is due to the ethical issue of moral stupidity. The paper examines why Briony Tallis, the protagonist of Atonement, accuses Robbie Hunter for the rape of her sixteen- year-old cousin, Lola. For much of the scholarship on Atonement, debates on the moral impl...

This paper argues that the major catalyst behind Briony Tallis’ rape accusation in Atonement is due to the ethical issue of moral stupidity. The paper examines why Briony Tallis, the protagonist of Atonement, accuses Robbie Hunter for the rape of her sixteen- year-old cousin, Lola. For much of the scholarship on Atonement, debates on the moral impl...

The Museum of Innocence is an innovative postmodern text that fuses the literary world with the material world outside of the text. Orhan Pamuk did this by establishing a physical museum in Istanbul to complement the text after the novel’s publication in 2008. There is a crossover between the novel and the museum through the narrative of objects re...

The Museum of Innocence is an innovative postmodern text that fuses the literary world with the material world outside of the text. Orhan Pamuk did this by establishing a physical museum in Istanbul to complement the text after the novel’s publication in 2008. There is a crossover between the novel and the museum through the narrative of objects re...

Objectives: This paper aims to investigate how the inherent taste in Shakespeare can change through the teaching of the very core of English heritage; Shakespeare, by applying critical pedagogy as a method which in its turn diminishes superiority of the value and taste that is given to his name. Methods: It argues that teaching through the usage of...

This paper explores the intersection between posthumanism and ecological thought in Beckett’s Endgame. Based on a reception-informed approach, this article revisits Beckett’s Endgame with a special focus on how the recent context of pandemic affects our reading of the human in his work. Building on the existing body of critical response to Beckett’...