May Hawas
Biographic Data
| ID | 5423293 |
|---|---|
| NAME | May Hawas |
| GIVEN NAMES | May |
| FAMILY NAME | Hawas |
| SIGNATURE | HAWAS M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cambridge |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Aren’t They All in the Literary Histories?’
The tendency to dismiss history in favour of close reading by twentieth-century British critics has cast a long shadow over critical practice. Yet the tendency to revere a formalist, a-historical, even a-political critical method primarily for its own sake seems to be singularly strong in English studies. This somewhat self-isolating tendency has not, for example, appeared as a noteworthy part of critical practice in comparative literature. Of co…
The Routledge Companion to World Literature and World History
"The Routledge Companion to World Literature and World History is a comprehensive and engaging volume, combining essays from historians and literary academics to create a space for productive cross-cultural encounters between the two fields. In addition to the 27 essays, the Companion includes general introductions from two of the leading scholars of history and literature, David Damrosch and Patrick Manning, as well as personal testimonies from …
Routledge Companion to World Literature and World History
Taha Hussein and the Case for World Literature
How and why has world literature been promoted as a discipline outside of Western contexts? Expanding the grounds of comparative literature to include non-Western texts also requires emphasizing the work of non-Western theorists as cultural actors. In an effort to widen the conversation on the early theoretical tenets of the field, this article presents the vision of world literature promoted by one of the foremost Egyptian writers of the twentie…
Taha Hussein and the Case for World Literature
How and why has world literature been promoted as a discipline outside of Western contexts? Expanding the grounds of comparative literature to include non-Western texts also requires emphasizing the work of non-Western theorists as cultural actors. In an effort to widen the conversation on the early theoretical tenets of the field, this article presents the vision of world literature promoted by one of the foremost Egyptian writers of the twentie…
The Routledge Companion to World Literature and World History
"The Routledge Companion to World Literature and World History is a comprehensive and engaging volume, combining essays from historians and literary academics to create a space for productive cross-cultural encounters between the two fields. In addition to the 27 essays, the Companion includes general introductions from two of the leading scholars of history and literature, David Damrosch and Patrick Manning, as well as personal testimonies from …
Routledge Companion to World Literature and World History
Taha Hussein and the Case for World Literature
How and why has world literature been promoted as a discipline outside of Western contexts? Expanding the grounds of comparative literature to include non-Western texts also requires emphasizing the work of non-Western theorists as cultural actors. In an effort to widen the conversation on the early theoretical tenets of the field, this article presents the vision of world literature promoted by one of the foremost Egyptian writers of the twentie…
Aren’t They All in the Literary Histories?’
The tendency to dismiss history in favour of close reading by twentieth-century British critics has cast a long shadow over critical practice. Yet the tendency to revere a formalist, a-historical, even a-political critical method primarily for its own sake seems to be singularly strong in English studies. This somewhat self-isolating tendency has not, for example, appeared as a noteworthy part of critical practice in comparative literature. Of co…
Art (2 works) · History (2 works) · Literature (2 works) · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies (2 works) · Ancient history (1 work) · Arabic (1 work) · Arabic literature (1 work) · Biography & Autobiography (1 work) · Comparative and World Literature (1 work) · Comparative literature (1 work)