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Article: English literature and Arab students.
- Article from:
- Academic Exchange Quarterly
- Article date:
- March 22, 2005
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Abstract
Teachers of English literature in non-Western environments may find it more challenging to bring their students to an appreciation of English literature, which offers social, moral, and cultural values different from their own. This paper depicts the experience of teaching English literature in the Arab/Moslem world and recommends that, to avoid alienating students, literature should be taught amorally and encourage free interpretation.
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The language in which we are speaking is his before it is mine. How
different are the words home, Christ, ale, master, on his lips and
on mine. I cannot speak or write these words ...