Second assignment

Language & Culture. U must answer TWO of the following Qs provided the first one is obligatory: 1/ Go back to Said’s Orientalism and see what he says about Nerval, Flaubert and Chateaubriand and write a good essay how those authors have envisaged their relation to and conception of Oriental cultures! 2/ Write a good essay throwing light on this statement: Language is not a culture-free code. 3/ How does culture include/ exclude! 4/ How does different conception of time between English and Arabic contribute to difference in understanding and the creation of a cultural gap?

Short Story 1/ Give specific quotes from the story shedding light on the townspeople gossip about Emily OR some quotes that portray her relationship to her father and Homer Barron. 2/ Take one specific page and show how time shift in Faulkner is problematic and not sequential.

: 1/ How do the poems we discussed in class by Walcott and Brathwaite explore the relationship between the indigenous people and the colonizer? How do they either turn upside down stereotypical conception OR draw attention to culture clash? 2/ Simple Q related to Donne: How unconventional u find Donne’s imagery? Good Luck. Please note: U are obliged to do these assignment.