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Lynda Chouiten
Lynda Chouiten (ليندة شويتن) an Algerian writer in French. She is the author of several books, she works on French and Francophone Cultures and Literatures, Postcolonial Culture and Literature, Comparative Literature, Travel Literature, Orientalism, Cultural Representation, Literary Theory, British Literature and Civilization (especially Victorian), Discourse and Power, Gender Studies. PhD in French Studies from The Moore Institute for Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences National University of Ireland, Galway. She is Head of the Scientific Committee of the Department of Foreign Languages & Literatures (University of Boumerdes A university () is an institution of higher (or tertiary) education and research which awards academic degrees in several academic disciplines. Universities typically offer both undergraduate and postgraduate programs. In the United States, the ...) from September 2015. Her novel, Une Valse, won the 2019 Assia Djebar Great Prize. W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Humanities And Social Sciences National University Of Ireland
Humanities are academic disciplines that study aspects of human society and culture. In the Renaissance, the term contrasted with divinity and referred to what is now called classics, the main area of secular study in universities at the time. Today, the humanities are more frequently defined as any fields of study outside of professional training, mathematics, and the natural and social sciences. They use methods that are primarily critical, or speculative, and have a significant historical element—as distinguished from the mainly empirical approaches of the natural sciences;"Humanity" 2.b, ''Oxford English Dictionary'' 3rd Ed. (2003) yet, unlike the sciences, the humanities have no general history. The humanities include the studies of foreign languages, history, philosophy, language arts (literature, writing, oratory, rhetoric, poetry, etc.), performing arts (theater, music, dance, etc.), and visual arts (painting, sculpture, photography, filmmaking, etc.); culinary art ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
