Anbar University Journal of Languages & Literature

This paper is a humble effort to edit an important Arabic manuscript of the late period which is Negligence in Arabic Language: Part Three by Jamal Al-Din Abi Al-Fadhil al-Hafnawy: An Editing and Study. tHe edition produced is accompanied by a detailed study of the author and his manuscript.

This paper studies the concept of intertextuality in the Pre-Islamic poem on the levels of vocabulary and imagery. The paper seeks to establish the existence of common themes, forms, and utterances in the Pre-Islamic metality and imagination.

This paper seeks to re-divides the periods of modernism in Arabic poetry in the light of the texture and features of this poetry. We found that the available divisions of the modern period in Arabic poetry suffer great shortcomings. This study shall propose new labels for this poetry and its stages of development.

This paper seeks to draw attention to the importance of the textual criteria in the appreciation of the Quranic texts alongside other criteria. These can occur on the level of form and subject-matter. The paper focuses on three criteria: parallels, content structure and atmosphere.

Ranking of poets is an important issue in classical Arabic criticism. The settling of ranking in this case depends on reliability of reporting and what is left of the poet's output after sifting it from falsification and confusion. Thus , there was scrutiny of the poet's works and then there is the ranking which is done according to the intrinsic merits of his poetry.

This paper studies the morphology and parsing of the various subjugations of the word 'orphan' in the Holy Quran and the Prophetic tradition. Such words are used in certain morphological forms for certain fiqh ends.

This paper studies Al-Zajaji's book Majales Al-Ulama which is distinguished by its unique way of resenting its material. Unlike other books of grammar, this book is a crowded feast of discussions and opinions in a highly enriching way to the reader. It shows all the possible grammatical interpretations of any given linguistic issue.

Quranic Expression is an intentionally crafted expression. Each word and letter is deliberately placed in it on the level of the whole Quranic situation. So meaning or context has a great effect on the choice and placement of the letter on the basis of agreement. This extends to the omission of the letter itsel in such a way as to suit the context given.

Linguistic deficiency can occur on the levels of sounds, word structure, grammatical structure, and semantics. Yet linguistic deficiency is limited to a specific lowly class in the pre-Islamic period but with the coming of Islam Arabic spread and intermingled with other peoples and there was a need to write guides for its correct usage.

This is a study of the demonstrative (that) in the Holy Quran.The study has two parts: the first explains the linguistic and grammatical status in Arabic language while the second deals with its usage in the Holy Quran.

Standard linguistic reasoning is very important aspect of Arabic linguistic tradition. This issue reached its culmination with Al-Anbari in his two grammar books. He puts many conditions and standards for this sort of reasoning.

The paper studies the imagery of the poetry of Sehaim the slave of Al-Hashas Clan. Imagery is the most important aspect in poetry used to convey personal experience mingled with imagination. Imagery is part of the aesthetic and structure of the poem. The great poet can give his imagery original aspects.

This paper studies the problem of the ending in Don Delillo's White Noise. Although Don Delillo’s 1984 novel White Noise boosts no formal ending in terms of plot resolution, it manages to achieve a high sense of narrative closure. The novel ends with a short chapter that runs counter to the narrative demands of plot logic and reader’s expectations.

This paper studies relevance as the central principle of the interpretation of advertisements. In the advertisement the text and image convey a range of implications, and it must be assumed that the most likely interpretation is that consistent with the advertiser’s desire to reinforce favourable associations with the brand. Advertising, as mentioned in Encyclopedia Britannica (1974: 105), is essentially a form of communication through such diverse media as hand bills, newspapers, magazines, bill boards, letters, radio and television broadcasts and motion pictures .

The present study aims at studying the idea of rebirth in three of Plath's poems: "Lady Lazarus", "A Better Resurrection" and "Fever 103". In these poems, Plath envisions rebirth into a better world where she gets rid of suffering, misery and wretchedness. This better resurrection can only be achieved by annihilating her present life. This in fact what Plath did at the end of her life when she committed suicide.

This paper studies Social and Political Views in selected Plays of George Bernard Shaw . Although the first profitable writings of George Bernard Shaw (18-56-1950) was music and literary criticism but his talent was for drama. He authored more than sixty plays, which deal with different problems and ideas. He examined marriage, government, class privilege, and equal rights for men and women, etc. Shaw as a dramatist continued to write, not propaganda or pamphlet, but plays. He remained fundamentally an artist to the end of his life. As an artist he aimed at rendering the social and political systems as he saw them, not as he would like to see them .Reading his purpose as a playwright.

Although Frankenstein employs most of the formal properties of the science fiction genre, it is never treated as such. In fact, this novel is, by now, one of the classics of the Gothic novel. This is due to a variety of reasons that mostly relates to the conditions of its writing and literary convention of the early novel was at its vogue, newly established by the European romanticism.

This paper studies Miller's play The Crucible as a representation of a new character type which is the non-comformist hero. It is not about a particular issue in a particular society, but it is about a universal issue which is non –conformist attitude in dealing with the external pressures practised on the individuals. It raises impotrtant questions such as: how should man deal with the attempts to make him conform to the commonly accepted values of his society .

The tragicomic vision is one of the interests of Anton Chekhov, the Russian dramatist who longs to portray and present it authentically and honestly in his play the Three Sisters. It is the realistic vision of life which includes in it the tragic and comic sides of man's life, especially modern man's life. Being a realist, Chekhov is one of those dramatists who perceive life as a mixture of tragedy and comedy. This realization represents the realistic vision of life. For such an end, he wrote plays of mixed moods in which he combines two genres of tragedy and comedy. This form of dramatic writing is called tragicomedy that Chekhov adopts in his play. Believing that the comic and ridiculous can become an effective means of expressing the serious, in other words the tragic. For that, he includes in his play tragicomic scenes that include comic characters and situations as an effective technique for such purpose. The paper aims to deal with that.

Shedding an Islamic perspective on Marlowe's Doctor Faustus instances its universality and relevance to the realities of the Muslim world. For the Muslim knows that Lucifer and his followers fight to gain his soul and perverts him from the path of God. He is also sure that any submission and obedience to the temptation of the devils will bring God's wrath and damnation like that of Faustus.

A present study is an attempt to analyze the speech of eight persons working in different professions in Ramadi city and the surrounding rural areas. They are an Imam of the mosque, a teacher, a physician, a taxi- driver, a grocer, a farmer, a worker, and a butcher. The speech of those people is analyzed phonologically in terms of voice quality and the level of pitch, while sociolinguistically in terms of style of speech being formal, or informal; or polite or impolite. The voice quality helps in deciding the speaker’s identity of being rural or urban; snooty or nice because the voice quality may be harsh, cheery, creaky, coarse, etc. Thus, the fact that the voice quality of the speaker reveals his identity has been proved. Studying the characteristics of voice quality and the pitch of the voice leads to knowing the speaker’s speech as formal or informal, polite or impolite. This gives us a clear evidence that there is a symmetric relation between phonetics-phonology and sociolinguistics as far as the speech is concerned.