Category: Literary Studies / All genres/ Theory
Emily’s Rose: Symbol of Her Transcendence to Traditional South
The title of William Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily”, particularly the symbolic meaning of the rose has been discussed for …
Time and Elegiac in the Later Poetry of Andrew Young
The poetry of Andrew Young (1885–1971) has most usually been contextualized within the landscapes of his adopted home in the …
A Comparative Study of Greek and Roman Mythologies With Special Reference to Excerpts From Ovid’s ‘Metamorphoses’ and Riordan’s ‘Percy Jackson’
Ovid's Metamorphoses is a collection of poems chronicling the history of the creation of the world, consisting of fifteen fully …
“Struggling to Translate”: Jenn Marie Nunes’s Retranslation of Li Qingzhao’s “Ru Meng Ling” as Feminist Translation
The interplay between gender studies and translation studies has expanded the gender dynamics in translation beyond the plane of textual …
Intermedial Elements: Building Identity and Selfhood
The given paper is a case study of intermedial elements used to build distinct cultural identities and the image of …
Reading Kenji Miyazawa after 3.11: Region, Utopia, and Resilience
Interpretations of Miyazawa Kenji's work have gone through several iterations since his death: from virtual obscurity he was recovered as …
International Circulation of Newspaper Novels: British Empire, Japan, and the Yubin Hochi Shimbun
Japanese newspaper novels emerged as a genre in the latter half of the 19th century. In 1886, the Yubin Hochi …
Annotation and Practice of Reading: The Tale of Genji and Kakaisho
The Tale of Genji, by Murasaki Shikibu, is the most famous Japanese classic novel and the world’s oldest existing novel …
The Spatiotemporal Dimension of “After” in Samuel Beckett’s Endgame
In After Fukushima Jean-Luc Nancy examines the nature of the Fukushima nuclear disaster through what he terms “the equivalence of …