Table of Contents

Contents: Three Figures: T.S. Eliot, F.R. Leavis, George Orwell – Raymond Williams. The End of the Line – E.P. Thompson and Perry Anderson: A Debate – A Note on Christopher Caudwell – John McGrath and the Alternative Theatre Movement – Islamaphobia and the intellectuals – Radicals, Renegades, Pundits and imposters: Reflections on the International Intelligentsia – Power and the Radical Araba Intellectual. Three Case Studies – Mediterraneanism in Modern Arab Cultural Thought – Poetics of Exile and Identity. The Case of Modern Iraqi Poetry.

About the Author

Abdulla Al-Dabbagh is Professor of English Literature at the United Arab Emirates University. He holds a BA from Wesleyan University, an M. Litt. from Cambridge University, and a PhD from Essex University. He has taught English, American, and world literatures, literary criticism, and translation at universities in Iraq, Jordan, and the United Arab Emirates. He is the author of Literary Orientalism, Postcolonialism, and Universalism (Lang 2010), Shakespeare, the Orient, and the Critics (Lang 2010), D. H. Lawrence: A Study of Literary Fascism (Lang 2011), and Socialist Literature: Theory and Practice (Lang 2012).