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Pen Circle 37 (Oct - Dec. 2015) PDF
Pen Circle 37 (Oct - Dec. 2015) PDF
Sermo in circulis
القلم
est liberior.
Issue N° 37 – October-December 2015
Journal of the Department of English
Sultan Moulay Slimane Univ., Faculty of Arts & Humanities, Beni Mellal, Morocco.
Editor: Khalid Chaouch.
INSIDE THIS ISSUE
Editorial: Dependence Mentality and Initiative Spirit ... 02
The Poet’s Corner:
“The Compulsory Reasons” by Mohammed AL-MAGHOUT … 03
“The Poet and the Fool” and “Great Gaza Goes”
by Rachid ACIM … 04
“The Arabian Nights and World Literature: A Tentative Short
Survey” by Elhoussaine AAMMARI … 06
Pen Circle Prize (2015/2016) … 09
Middle Ground, Journal of the Research Laboratory on Culture
and Communication (Issue N° 6): „Occidentalism vs. Orientalism.' 10
RLCC International Conference on “Shakespeares: Critical
Perspectives Past and Present (Call for Papers)… 12
Pungent Quotations on Fools, Insanity and Madness … 14
Clues to “Crosswords” N° 36 ... 14
Crosswords N° 37 ... 15
Courses Framework of the Fall Semesters (1, 3, and 5) … 16
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Editorial Board
Mly. Lmustapha MAMAOUI, Mohamed RAKII, Redouan SAÏDI.
Pen Circle n° 37 -2-
EDITORIAL
Dependence Mentality
and
Initiative Spirit
In our daily life as well as in many of our institutions, it is
crystal clear that, in many cases, things work this way: Everybody,
from the simple clerk to the supposed responsible, shakes off
responsibility, because nobody feels or wants to feel that they are the
responsible. Following from this, no one should ever boast of being
responsible.
Fortunately, this is not always the case, and such a state of mind
should never be seen as an inevitable fate. There are certainly some
orders and a general policy to be followed. But this fact should not
become a tether to the creative genius, especially to those endowed
with an INITIATIVE SPIRIT. Why should everyone always wait for
someone else to tell them what to do and what not to do? This
waiting spirit has undoubtedly generated a dependence mentality. That is,
the person on the ground (in any field) has become – in many cases –
dependent on officials of higher rank as regards plans, ideas, and
even details of how to implement the practical side of one‟s own
task.
The prevalence of this mentality never provides the fertile ground for
the emergence of enterprising, dynamic and inventive persons in all
our institutions: administration, companies, factories, universities,
schools, and even Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs).
In this situation, only people who have the “head on (not between)
the shoulders” could really take initiatives and make decisions. We
need them… and badly.
Khalid CHAOUCH
Pen Circle n° 37 -3-
The Poet’s Corner
This corner is devoted both to prominent figures in poetry and to ambitious students who dare
to embark on the process of creative writing. Students‟ attempts should be sent by email or
presented in legible handwriting, and submitted to a member of Pen Circle Editorial Board.
The Compulsory Reasons1
by Mohammed Al-Maghout
References
Gerhardt, Mia A. The Art of Story-telling: A Literary Study of the
Thousand and One Nights. Leiden: Brill, 1963.
Haddawy, Husain. The Arabian Nights: Based on the Text of the
Fourteenth Century Syrian Manuscript. Ed. Muhsin Mahdi. New
York: Norton, 1990.
Irwin, Robert. The Arabian Nights: A Companion. London: Tauris
Parke, 2004.
Mahdi, Muhsin, ed. The Thousand and One Nights (Alf layla wa-
layla) from the Earliest Known Sources, 2 vols. Leiden: E. J. Brill,
1984.
Elhoussaine AAMMARI
Pen Circle n° 37 -9-
Khalid CHAOUCH
(Sultan Moulay Slimane University, Beni Mellal, Morocco):
Claiming Estevanico de Azamor in the Labyrinth of Oriental/Western
Identities
David EWICK
(Tokyo Woman‟s Christian University, Japan)
and Kanae SHIRAISHI
(Hitutsubashi University, Tokyo, Japan):
A Case Study of Self-Orientalism and Self-Occidentalism:
Performative Constructions of Self and Other in Japanese Travel
Guides to Sri Lanka
Moulay Lmustapha MAMAOUI
(Sultan Moulay Slimane University, Beni Mellal – Morocco):
Process of Identification of Alterity in Wyndham Lewis‟s Journey
into Barbary
Pungent Quotations on
Fools, Insanity and Madness
"There comes a moment in everybody‟s life when he must decide whether he‟ll
live among human beings or not – a fool among fools or a fool alone."
Thornton Wilder, The Matchmaker.
“A science is any discipline in which the fool of this generation can go beyond
the point reached by the genius of the last generation.”
Max Gluckman, Politics, Law and Ritual.
"Insanity is a kind of innocence."
Graham Greene, The Quiet American
"If the fool would persist in his folly, he would become wise."
William Blake
"The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman
to manage a fool."
Rudyard Kipling, Plain Tales from the Hills.
"The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool."
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
"There a pleasure sure
In being mad, which none but mad men know."
Dryden, The Spanish Friar.
"As soon as he ceased to be mad he became merely stupid. There are maladies
we must not seek to cure because they alone protect us from others that are more
serious."
Marcel Proust, The Guermantes Way.
“Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few.”
Jonathan Swift, Thoughts on Various Subjects
“What garlic is to salad, insanity is to art.”
Augustus Saint-Gaudens.
Clues to ‘CROSSWORDS’ N° 36
A B C D E F G H I J K
1 A M A T E U R I S H
2 B E M O A N B E E P
3 O N O R I E N T A L
4 R A N T V A V A
5 T G H E V E Y N
6 E C B R E A D T
7 P R O C E S S O M
8 S I M P L E T N I M
9 Y E P L H A S A
10 C O S H U T T E R
11 H S A E R R O R S
12 E L E M E N T A R Y
Pen Circle n° 37 - 15 -
M1 M2 M3 M4 M5 M6 M7
Semester
Reading Languages I:
1 Comprehension Paragraph Grammar Spoken Guided Study
and Précis 1 Writing 1 English Reading Skills French
Semester British
Public Culture
3 Extensive Composition 2 Grammar Speaking and Society Initiation
Reading 3 and / Culture to
Debating and Society Translation
in the US