—Anonymous What is great work? We define literature as great work, by looking at three approaches. Existence and immortality, meaningful themes of the story, and well-written work. “The Epic of Gilgamesh” has lasted for thousands of years since the Mesopotamian times. A story that was written in 2000 BC, translated and taught still in 2020, […]
North African/Middle Eastern
The Doum Tree of Wad Hamid by Tayeb Salih in my opinion is a great work…
– Jeremy Ramirez The Doum Tree of Wad Hamid by Tayeb Salih in my opinion is great work. The narrator of the story is an old man from Wad Hamid who is speaking to a stranger who happens to be visiting this village and the old man talks to him about this village. He tells […]
The Doum Tree of Wad Hamid was honestly my favorite text in this whole course…
— Patricia Alvarado The Doum Tree of Wad Hamid was honestly my favorite text in this whole course. I have always had interest in Middle Eastern studies , even though not being Middle Eastern myself. The reason is because of all the rich history and culture the Middle East and North Africa have. But reading […]
To be left with a sense of awe…
—Ana Bushi To be left with a sense of awe and wanting to know the full story, is for me an indicator of something great in measure. This is what I experienced after I was done with reading the assigned parts from The 1001 Nights and The Mahabharata, and this is why I would consider […]
The definition of the phrase …
— Kelly Leung The definition of the phrase “great work” to me goes hand-in-hand with the definition of what it means for a work to be a classic, which categorizes a work by the way it teaches life lessons that maintain relevancy and withstand the test of time. There is a list of canonical books […]
