Bücher von Najlaa Aldeeb

The Bildungsroman genre traces the development of the protagonist in a literary work from youth to adulthood in order to highlight the significant changes from innocence to experience and from naivety to maturity. Bildungsromane in the twentieth century revolve around sentimentality and emotional turmoil, so the growth of the personality starts from the heart, as the protagonists seek solutions in religion, love or social attachment. However, in the twenty-first century, the coming-of-age novels focus on the head not the heart, so they oppose those in the previous century as the mental turmoil has replaced the emotional turmoil, or the turmoil of the heart. Jane Housham (2013) describes this emotional numbness and continual stream of boredom as a sign of ¿autism¿. Therefore, the characteristics of postmodern Bildungsroman protagonists reflect the changes taking place in the whole world, such as the fast pace of life and the development of technology.This book summarizes the history of the Bildungsroman/coming-of-age genre in order to identify the differences between the elements of contemporary coming-of-age novels and their predecessors in the twentieth century.

Translating intertextual forms in a literary work becomes a problematic issue. The book proves that there is more to intertextuality than the mere allusion to other texts as it contributes to the source text (ST). Intertextuality in James W. Nichol¿s (2002) The Stone Angel influences the meaning of the text. The book traces the intertextual forms in the play to understand it fully and make sense of it. As a form of intertextuality, allusion has two functions, on one hand, to make the ST internally coherent and, on the other hand, to add to the play's ideologically neutral form. The structure of the play is complicated because the whole story revolves around Hagar, the protagonist, a ninety-year-old outrageous, difficult woman, who goes back and forth between present and past events. The play is full of fragments of flashbacks, in which Hagar recalls her childhood, her marriage, and her struggle with life in an attempt to understand her life and release her inner emotions and feelings. The book examines three approaches that can be applied in translating a set of religious, poetic and dramatic allusions in the play.