An editorial commentary in the Proceedings of the Tenth Congress of the ICLA (published in 1985) asserted that "references to neo-Marxist explanations and ideological analysis" could be found in the paper that Youssef presented at this congress [REF].
Armando Gnisci saw in Youssef's Myth of European Literature an important theoretical contribution to a "poetics of decolonization" that challenges dominant Western literary concepts of literature and the Western literary canon [REF].