Category: Literature
Cultural Colonization in Poems by Wallace Stevens
The reason for Wallace Stevens' skepticism regarding cultural colonies is clear. Most of the people in America are descendents of …
Requiem for a Beast: A Case Study in Controversy
In 2008, Matt Ottley’s Requiem for a Beast: A Work for Image, Word and Music was awarded the Book of …
Developing Reading Culture for the Challenges of Tertiary Institutions in Nigeria
The paper critically interrogates and assesses the importance of reading and its indispensable contributions to the educational development of the …
The Recuperation of African History in African Fiction
The relationship between fiction and history is quite an obvious one, especially in postcolonial African settings, where it is more …
When The Whale Talks Back: An Interspecies Cultural Dialogue in Zakes Mda’s The Whale Caller (2005)
The paper explores the ways in which the narrative perspectives relate the interconnectedness between human characters and nonhuman characters, Saluni …
Interference of Arts in the Saudi Literature (Narrative and Formative Model)
The interference with arts contributed effectively to the development of the expressiveness of the literary text ,and to supply it …
Unacknowledged Matricide in T. S. Eliot’s The Family Reunion
T.S. Eliot admits the two serious problems he had not solved properly: the Furies, the disruptive perspective of the play. …
Mario Vargas Llosa’s Conversacion en la Catedral: A Paradigm of Corruption
"At what precise moment had Peru fucked itself up?" exasperatingly asks Conversation in the Cathedral, the highly acclaimed novel of …
Terrible Beauty: the Aesthetics of Death in Polish and Japanese War Literature
War narration is inseparably linked with the image of death, which is a very sensitive issue. This paper shows how …
Considerations on Finnish and Romanian Literary and Cultural Relations within European Context
Sharing similar historical development, fairly equally placed under the eastern bloc pressure, Romania and Finland slowly became involved in a …
Death Drive: Vampires in Anne Rice’s The Vampire Chronicles
The essay attempts to discuss the literary meaning of immortality and the symbolic interaction of vampire figures in Anne Rice’s …
Game for None, Game for All: Verbal Contentions and Life Affirmation in De Turkey and De Law
Zora Neale Hurston, a Harlem Renaissance African American female writer in the 1920s, grew up at Eatonville, an all-black community …
Utopian Individuals, Dystopian Societies: Two Communal Imaginations in Meiji Japan
This paper offers a dialogical comparison of the writings of Japanese Buddhist Anarchist pioneers Uchiyama Gudo (1874-1911) and Takagi Kemmyo …
Feminism and the Nigerian Female Question: A Feminist Appraisal of Zaynab Alkali’s Stillborn
This paper examines feminism as a literary ideology, which attempts to win for women a status of recognition and parity …
Challenging Childhoods: Representations of Conflict in Australian Junior Historical Fiction Since 1945
Representations of conflict permeate Australian junior historical fiction, including acts of extreme violence, acts of political protest and acts of …
Atomic Bomb’s Survivors’ Personal Narratives in Contemporary and Intercultural Contexts: Lessons Yet to Be Learned
The voices of A-bomb survivors are getting lost in this multimedia environment as the world stage has become crowded. Hibakusha’s …
Challenges and Opportunities for Chinese Library to Face SCOAP3’s Development
The SCOAP3 funding model is entirely open to "core" journals in the HEP
content. This article describes the development, funding …
The Potential of the Museum Collection Management Systems (MCMS) Development in Hong Kong Museum of History (HKMH)
The aim of this paper is to provide insights into the use of qualitative methods in the field of library …
The Drama of Loneliness: Its Evolution from Chekhov to Pinter and Bond
The loneliness of human existence becomes an overriding theme in literature and drama of the 20th century, especially due to …
Turning to Violence: Science Fiction, Ethics and Difference in Priya Chabria’s “Generation 14”
Today, biotechnology is radically changing the terms of life: in the past human beings manipulated the external, and today humans …
“El Sueño de Manuela”, or the Dream of Rewriting History
Despite the importance of Children´s literature in Ecuador, little is known about works written in the last 15 years. In …
“Mukouda Kuniko no Koibumi” : A Woman Writer’s Lifelong Secret From Her Family
Mukouda Kuniko no Koibumi (The Love Letters of Kuniko Mukouda), published posthumously in 2002 by the writer's sister Kazuko, brought …
Connectedness, Identity and Alienation in Some Italian Novels and Films Depicting Contact Between People from Italy and People from Countries Other than Italy in the 21st Century
A number of narratives have been written in Italian in the 21st century by non-European migrants to Italy. Criticism has …
The Reflection of the Concept of Alienation on Post-1960 Art
All kinds of information is consumed as quickly as it is produced in the communication era. The greed of the …
Articuclamation Connected?!: Oral Narrative of Spiderwoman Theater’s “Sun, Moon and Feather”
Transmotion, also visionary motion, according to Christy Stanlake in his depiction of Native American plays "refers to a critical awareness …
Space for Love: The Triangle Spatial Relationships in Alan Ayckbourn’s “Things We Do for Love”
Alan Ayckbourn is a prolific British playwright whose plays are mostly classified as comedy. Many themes in his plays are …
Simon de Beauvoir: Mother of Modern Feminism?
The purpose of this paper is to shed light on the role the French author and philosopher Simone de Beauvoir …
The Narrow Road to a Deeper Understanding of Haibun
In seventeenth century Japan, Matsuo Basho wrote The Narrow Road to the Deep North in an innovative style that is …
Revisiting Sita: The Subversive Myths of Womanhood in Contemporary South Asian Women Writers
Sita, the heroine of the Indian epic Ramayana, is one of the most defining role models for womanhood in the …
Walking in the Modern Metropolis: Female Flânerie in Katherine Mansfield and Jean Rhys
This study follows the trajectory of female flânerie and the representations of Western metropolises in women’s writing during the early …
Beyond Books and Cross-Continents: Cataloguing English Printing Copperplates and Woodblocks in American Library Collections
Museums and libraries have already established clear systems for historical objects, printed books and manuscripts. However, there are rarely any …
Coming Home to Modern Japan. An Orphic dialogue between East and West in H. Murakami’s “Norwegian Wood”
In her submission to last year's conference, "Mapping ‘The Underworld' of Haruki's Murakami's Literary World", A. Suzuki demonstrated that the …
Psychogeographic Impact on Malcolm Lowry’s Consciousness: From the Zapotec and Aztec Civilizations to Taoism
This paper provides an intercontinental, cross-cultural, multi-disciplinary framework for an analysis of the influence of cultures and civilizations - both …
Challenges of Teaching Caribbean Literature in a Caribbean University Classroom
This paper explores the teaching / learning strategies employed specifically in three courses that focus on the genres of the …
Iraqi Digital Libraries: Based on Problems and their Solutions a new Vision and Future towards E-Society:
The Iraq Universities Started to use automated systems in libraries and information centers since the last century, and suffered periodically …
Evaluation of Desire under the Elms by Eugene O’Neill Under the Light of Nine Rasas of Bharat Muni
This study indicates how Nine Rasas of Bharat Muni can be applicable to the drama of any language of the …
A Deliberate Illumination on Linguistic Traits of Du Fu’s Poems: A Study on the Poetics Criticism of Sung School of Qianlong and Jiaqing Reign (1736-1820)
The Sung School of Qing Dynasty basically inherited the philosophy from Jiangxi School of Sung Dynasty that poetry should be …
Connectedness: Communities of Crime Fiction Reader
For as long as there have been libraries, librarians have played an integral role in connecting readers to writers. The …
Hybrid, Memory and Hybridization of Messianic Time in Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children
In Salam Rushdie's ‘Midnight's Children’, Saleem Sinai is the hybrid body which can be defined based on the result of …
The Courtship Practices among the Talaandig as Depicted in Their Folksongs and Folktales
This is a literary study of the Talaandig folksongs and folktales. Its emphasis is on the courtship practices of the …
The Trauma of the Loss of Identity and Anguish of Alienation: An Appraisal of the Indian Writing in English
This paper explores alienation as a global problem in reference to Indian Writing in English. We all live in a …
Censorship and Intellectual Property Focusing on Library Activities
Libraries are expected to be fully available in relation to all kinds of knowledge and information, regardless of social acceptance …
The “space” in Willa Cather’s Fictions
Willa Cather is famous for a series of Nebraska fictions, in which it depicts the prairie landscape and the pioneers' …
Global Cultural Identity on the Example of Japanese Trivial Literature and European Literary Tendencies
The modern global information society depends on numerous national infrastructures which have developed as intellectual capital, differing historical, sociological and …