Jamal Nafi

• PhD in English Literature
• Professor (Associate) at Al-Quds University

This paper attempts to explore the autobiographical elements in Mark Twain's novel the Adventure of Huckleberry Finn (1884). The sense of frustration and hopelessness permeates almost all the novels of Twain. The mysterious stranger in his novels may be Mark Twain himself, a man of genius, rebel. Twain's disillusionment and despair become reinforce...

The main objective of this study is to provide a descriptive account of the nature and way of Mark Twain's handling of humor and satire used in his novel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884). The study also aims to shed light on whether Twain intended his novel to be humorous, or the humor was unconscious and unrealistic. The researcher sheds...

This paper is an attempt to analyze the poetry of Miss Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) in order to reveal the extent of mysticism in it, and it focuses on the concept of "theology." Mysticism involves a deep, almost obsessive, concern with such problems as death, the existence of the soul, immortality, the existence of God and heaven, salvation or rede...

The dramatists of ancient Greece fixed the character and features of tragedy, and the Greek philosopher Aristotle analyzed and defined its nature. But Shakespeare, as a romantic playwright in Elizabethan England, violated the rules set and propagated by the classics for the sake of being truer to nature. Shakespeare‟s concept of tragedy may be illu...

The study aims at investigating the effect of using short stories on the development of 5th graders' reading comprehension skills. The study was applied on a purposeful sample of 5th grade students in a governmental school in Hebron District in the academic year 2016/2017. The sample included (87) students at The Korean Palestinian Basic School for...

The study aims to investigate and realize the degree of faculty’s use of authentic assessment tools at Al-Quds University and their relation to their attitudes towards them. To achieve the purpose of the study, a sample of (99) faculty members at the university was selected in the academic year 2016/2017. Two instruments were developed by the resea...

The study aims to investigate and realize the degree of faculty's use of authentic assessment tools at Al-Quds University and their relation to their attitudes towards them. To achieve the purpose of the study, a sample of (99) faculty members at the university was selected in the academic year 2016/2017. Two instruments were developed by the resea...

This study aims to identify the nature of students’ difficulties in written expression in the Departments of English and Arabic at Al-Quds University. It also aims to identify the impact of each of the variables gender, level, department and achievement on the degree of students’ writing difficulties in both departments. To achieve the objective of...

The purpose of this study is to determine the degree of faculty’s use and stimulation of critical thinking skills in the English Department at Al-Quds University. To achieve the objective of the study, a questionnaire consisting of 21 items was designed and applied to the study sample, consisting of 95 students in the English Department at Al-Quds...

Aims: The study aims at investigating the effect of using role-playing on students’ achievement and motivation in the English speaking skills of eighth Graders. Methods: This study followed the quasi-experimental design and was applied to two groups (experimental and control). Then the two experimental and control groups were divided into 4 subgrou...

This study aims to investigate the effect of using the inductive and deductive methods on 7th grade students’ achievement in grammar in Bethlehem District and their attitudes toward EFL. To achieve the purpose of the study, the researchers applied the instruments to a purposeful sample from 7th grade students at two schools, one for boys and the ot...

The purpose of this study is to investigate the attitudes of Palestinian undergraduate students towards native and non-native English language teachers and their relation to students' listening ability. To achieve this purpose and to answer the research questions and test the hypotheses, the researchers adopted both the descriptive and inferential...

The study aimed at investigating the effect of using the “SQP2RS via WTL” strategy through science context to 10thgraders’ reading comprehension in English in Bethlehem district in Palestine. The study has been applied on apurposeful sample of 10th grade students at public schools in Bethlehem district in the academic year 2015/2016. Thesample incl...

This paper aims at exploring John Milton's poetic style in his epic poem Paradise Lost, and the internal and external influences that shaped it. The ingredients of the grand style generally are: the greatness of the conception which inspires the poem; the exercise of a rich imagination; the employment of dignified words arranged in an impressive an...

This article is an attempt to explore the inclusion and the use of superstitious elements in Mark Twain's novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884) and Shakespeare's play Macbeth (1611). Superstition involves a deep belief in the magic and the occult, to almost to an extent of obsession, which is contrary to realism. Through the analytical an...

This article is an attempt to explore the inclusion and the use of superstitious elements in Mark Twain’s novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884) and Shakespeare’s play Macbeth (1611). Superstition involves a deep belief in the magic and the occult, to almost to an extent of obsession, which is contrary to realism. Through the analytical an...

Through a close reading of E.M. Forster's A Passage to India (1924), this paper seeks to expose the various personal relationships depicted in the novel. It also sheds light on the two nations described, the colonizer, represented by the British, and the colonized, represented by the Indians, and their attitudes towards each other. The analytical a...

There has been so much controversy about the inclusion of a sub-plot in Shakespeare's play King Lear. Some critics think that having a secondary story, woven within the main story, is a defect and lessens the dramatic effect of the main plot in particulars, and the whole story in general, while others believe that it is an advantage and it enhances...

This paper investigates the development of Paul's personality and the influences that shaped it in D.H. Lawrence's major novel Sons and Lovers. The study has approached the novel from psychological perspective, particularly, emphasizing the protagonist's various attempts to manipulate the three women characters he came in contact with, in order to...

The aim of this paper is to examine Wordsworth’s poem The Prelude in the sense of being autobiographical. The poem is considered as the longest, noblest and most fruitful illustration of the spiritual frugality of Wordsworth and a handsome anticipation of the modern concept of autobiography. The poem indicates that the autobiographer projects himse...

The present study aims to examine David Herbert Lawrence’s novel Women in Love in terms of form and structure. Lawrence was quite impatient of the conventional demands of a rigid and coherent plot construction made of a novelist. The novel bears witness of Lawrence as a narrator and as a sturcturalist, and Women in Love isn’t without a form. In his...

This paper investigates the development of Paul’s personality and the influences that shaped it in D.H. Lawrence’s major novel Sons and Lovers. The study has approached the novel from psychological perspective, particularly, emphasizing the protagonist’s various attempts to manipulate the three women characters he came in contact with, in order to...

This paper examines the question whether Satan is really the hero of John Milton’s great epic poem Paradise Lost (1667). There are controversial debates over this issue, and most critics believe that, although Satan acts and speaks heroically, God is the real hero of the poem, not Satan. The paper adopts the analytical approach. The findings of the...