Category: Literature/Literary Studies
Biddy as a Schoolteacher: The Prevalence of Teaching Jobs for Women in Charles Dickens’s Novels
This study analyses the social, cultural, and educational factors that affected female teachers during Charles Dickens’s lifetime (1812–70) by examining …
Black Frankenstein: Exploring Race and Trauma in Victor LaValle’s Graphic Fiction Destroyer
This paper critically examines Victor LaValle's graphic fiction Destroyer, a contemporary reinterpretation of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein narrative that situates the …
Addiction Memoirs: A Study of James Frey’s A Million Little Pieces
This paper examines James Frey’s controversial memoir A Million Little Pieces as an addiction memoir, analyzing its portrayal of addiction …
The Intersection of Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Bernardine Evaristo’s Girl, Woman, Other
In exploring the fictional representation of the experiences of Black gay men and women, it is important to examine how …
Rare Lovebirds: Avian Companionship in Modern Japanese Literature
Human-animal studies has long constituted a branch of Western literary and cultural theory, and it has begun to take root …
Time and Space in Eastern Narratives: Philosophical Foundations, Structural Variations and Contemporary Adaptations
Time and Space serve as fundamental elements in shaping the identity of Eastern and Western narrative traditions; therefore, it is …
Rethinking the Gothic Sublime: Portraiture in Matthew Lewis’s The Monk
This paper argues that the sublime in The Monk: A romance (first published 1796) by Matthew Gregory Lewis results from …
Reinterpreting and Demystifying: T.E. Lawrence and the “Odyssey” Translation (1928-1932)
The “Odyssey” has been an undeniable classic of literature throughout history, being translated into several languages and by different authors; …
Sexual/Gendered Pleasure in Women’s Writing: The Dual Plot as a Narrative Motivation in Y Ban’s I Am Đàn Bà (I Am a Woman)
Gender is undoubtedly a crucial category, influencing both literary criticism and various aspects of social life. Theoretically, feminist critics have …
Understanding the Caste-Gender Dichotomy, Suffering and “Rhetoric of Violence” Through Manju Bala’s Ups and Downs and The Conflict
The oppressive societal status of Bengali Dalit women, impacted by the intersectional factors of caste and gender discrimination, has not …
Philosopher and Writer: Iris Murdoch’s Long Journey From Existentialism to Neo-Platonism
Investigating the interconnection between literature and philosophy is significant in twentieth-century literary studies. The current research focuses on the philosophical …
Auditory Archives of Slavery: Exploring the Soundscape of Slavery in Saraswatheevijayam (1892)
Kerala’s literary space has historically been dominated by writers from the oppressor castes or high castes, marginalizing voices from oppressed …
Duality in Stevenson’s Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray: A Comparative Study
This study compares the concept of duality in two classic works of late Victorian literature: Oscar Wilde's The Picture of …
Power, Resistance and Knowledge in Efren R. Abueg’s Mga Kaluluwa sa Kumunoy
This paper focuses into the dynamics of power, resistance and knowledge as portrayed in Mga Kaluluwa sa Kumunoy (Souls in …
The Social and Discursive Context of Sutardji Calzoum Bachri’s Mantra/Sufi Poetry
Sutardji Calzoum Bachri's poetry, considered groundbreaking in 1970s Indonesia, emerged from a complex interplay of social repression and discursive dynamics. …
Miniature Worlds, Material Power: Objects and Agency in Jessie Burton’s “The Miniaturist”
Jessie Burton’s The Miniaturist invites readers into a world where the miniature serves as a microcosm of societal complexities. Through …
Reclaiming the ‘Bitch’: Surpanakha’s Journey to Self-Actualization in Kavita Kané’s “Lanka’s Princess”
In the intricate tapestry of Hindu epics, vilified women, particularly Surpanakha, have been persistently portrayed as embodiments of female malevolence. …
A Preliminary Exploration of Pizarro’s Notion of Poetic Indecorum in Villa’s Selected Poems
The study served as a preliminary exploration of Charito J. Pizarro’s notion of poetic indecorum using the two criteria she …
Unreliable Narration and Emotional Deterioration in Jean Rhys’s Selected Short Stories
Jean Rhys’s use of fragmented perspectives in her short stories highlights the alienation of the narrator to their physical surroundings. …
Necropolitics in the Contemporary African Fiction: A Critique of Helon Habila’s Novels
Contemporary African politics is a realisation of the fundamentals of the Machiavellian principles about the relations of power, wherein the …
Natural vs Unnatural: Art in Ode to a Nightingale and Ode on a Grecian Urn
The research intends to make a comparison between the "natural" artistic representation in Ode to a Nightingale and the “unnatural” …
The Subjective Narrator in the Novel “Njai Warsih” by Thio Tjin Boen: A Narratological Analysis
Narrator is an important element in a story because he has the ability to deliver, take control of, show, or …
Women in Morris’s Life and His Literary Realm
William Morris (24 March 1834 –3 October 1896) was a British textile designer, poet, decorated artist, utopian writer, and socialist-political …
Comparative Analysis of Foucault’s “What is an Author?” and Jung Dae Yoon’s Korean Television Series “W: Two Worlds Apart”
This research conducts a comparative analysis between Michel Foucault’s essay “What is an Author?” and Jung’s K-Drama “W: Two Worlds …
The Monster in “Frankenstein” and Edward Hyde: Eugenics and the Politics of Appearance
Lennard J Davis, in the introduction to The Disability Studies Reader, argued that the growth of the pseudoscience of Eugenics …
Finding the Form of Disorder: Poetics of Excess in the Catalogues of Carlo Emilio Gadda and James Joyce
Catalogues are everywhere; they’re mundane lists or evergrowing nets. Yet, they also constitute a valid tool to explore epistemological issues. …
The Decline of Inherited Property and Rise of Working Gentlemen in Bleak House
Attitudes toward gentility significantly changed during the lifetime of Charles Dickens (1812–70), leading to a redefinition of the term gentleman. …
The Phenomenon of Murder as a Symbolic Archetype in the Albanian Oral Narrative
This study investigates the symbolic archetype of murder within Albanian oral narratives, a pivotal element deeply embedded in Albanian folklore. …
The Suicidal Reading of Sylvia Plath’s Selected Works Under the Theoretical Frame Work of Durkheim’s Suicide Theory
This study delves into a sociological analysis of Sylvia Plath's selected works, through the theoretical framework of Émile Durkheim's Suicide …
Rethinking Resilience, Traversing Trauma: A Study of Sexually Abused Children and Young Adults in Tracey Hoffmann’s “Valley of Chaya”
In Valley of Chaya, Tracey Hoffmann depicts a harrowing global community where young adults and children are abducted and sold …
Diasporic Vietnamese Literature in the U.S. From the Perspective of Identity, and the Case of Viet Thanh Nguyen
The paper inherits the views of Kevin Kenny, Isabelle Thuy Pelaud, Michelle Janette, and Viet Thanh Nguyen to analyze the …
Comparative Analysis of Paranoia in Shakespeare’s Macbeth and Miyazaki’s Chihiro
This article examines paranoia in Miyazaki’s Chihiro from Spirited Away and in Shakespeare’s Macbeth from Macbeth through the lens of …
Applying CDA and Vladimir Propp’s “Morphology of the Folktale” on Nicholas Sparks’s “Safe Haven”
"Safe Haven" is one of Nicholas Sparks excellent novels. It was published in 2010. It is basically about women's abuse. …
Exploring Exile and Crosscultural Complexities in Yasmine Gooneratne’s “A Change of Skies”
The paper explores how the past affects the future in Yasmine Gooneratne’s A Change of Skies. The vital aspects of …
The Italian Translations of Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra
Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra boasts a peculiar typographical and editorial history. Despite the fact that the version contained in the …
Applying CDA and Vladimir Propp’s Morphology of the Folktale to Nicholas Sparks’ “The Guardian”
According to narratologists, Vladimir Propp’s “Morphology of the Folktale” is generally recognized as one of the most inspiring contributions to …
Black Kewpie and Little Black Sambo: Reading Juvenile Food Culture in American-Occupied Japan
This paper aims to explore the hitherto underexamined topic of juvenile food culture in American-occupied Japan (1945–1952) by analyzing Kuronbo …
The Knot: Other Possibilities in Moebius’ World
This presentation will highlight the multiple possibilities described in the film Moebius and how they impact the lives of Argentines …
The Migration of Lolita From High-Brow Literature to Pop Music: An Overview
Considered nowadays to be one of the best novels of the 20th Century, Lolita has become firmly established in the …
Queering Asian-American Masculinities in David Henry Hwang’s “M. Butterfly” and Ocean Vuong’s “On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous”
Asian-American masculinity has been a critical topic in cross-cultural studies as well as gender studies. Previous studies have relied on …
The Roots of Reform: Understanding the Form, Content, and Meaning in Habib Tanvir’s ‘Charandas Chor’ (1975)
The post-independence canon of Indian theatre is a manifestation of the socio-cultural turbulence that marks a paradigmatic shift in the …
From Text to Screen: The Writing and Re-writing of Hansa Wadkar’s (1923–1971) Life Story
The autobiography of late Indian actor Hansa Wadkar (1923-1971), Sangtye Aika (1970) is a unique piece of writing that was …
Form and Vision in Charles Tomlinson’s ‘The Door in the Wall’
Among Charles Tomlinson’s many American inspirations and collaborators, Stevens, Moore and Williams were essential in fostering his interest in form …
‘The Many Unruly Waves in the Earth and Sky’: An Eco/Geocritical Study of Jibanananda Das’s Malloban
Malloban (1948), a novel by the Bengali poet and novelist Jibanananda Das (1899-1954), deserves a dedicated reading from the contemporary …
Re-entry Into the Heart of Darkness: J. G. Ballard’s Sci-Fi Retelling of Conrad’s Novella
British science fiction writer J. G. Ballard seemed to have been under the strong influence of Joseph Conrad’s novella set …
Oğuz Atay’s ‘Games’: Transactional Analysis Theory in Oyunlarla Yaşayanlar (Those Who Live by Games) and Its Analysis With This Theory
In Transactional Analysis, as developed by Eric Berne, life is analyzed as being full of games that consist of transactions …
Reimagining the Opium Trade Era: Bureaucratic Modernity in Amitav Ghosh’s Ibis Trilogy and Kunal Basu’s The Opium Clerk
The Sino-British opium trade of 19th century has long been a subject of discussion and analysis in academic and literary …
Sista, Stanup, Strong: The Use of Storytelling to Raise Collective Female Pasifika Voices Against Gender Violence
In her 2010 review of Michelle Keown’s 2007 book Pacific Islands Writing: The Literatures of Aotearoa/New Zealand and Oceania, Janet …
Historical Metafiction and the Quest for Black Self-Authority in Laurence Hill’s Novel “Someone Knows My Name”
Rewriting history in fiction is not a new phenomenon in literature, since historical novels engage fictional characters in a real …
Naturalism and Realism: An Interplay in the Works of Stephen Crane
All literature is founded on some concept of the nature of man. When any major literary trend appears, it assumes …
From Visual Tools to Body Parts: Functions of Eyeglasses in The Pickwick Papers
The Industrial Revolution and subsequent technological advancements enabled most members of the Victorian middle class to afford eyeglasses and facilitated …
The Correlations Between Sound and Meaning in Fuzûlî’s Su Kasidesi (The Eulogy with the Repeated Word “Su”)
Repetition of sounds, i.e. alliteration and assonance, supports, and even sometimes forms, various meanings in literary works. Literary scholars argue …
Subaltern Bugis Women in Short Story “Ketika Saatnya”: Spivakian Postcolonial Studies
This study aims to reveal the phenomenon of social-cultural facts of Bugis women as subalterns in the short story “Ketika …
The Sleeping Beauty topos in The Monk and Dracula
A hundred years separate two of the most successful masterpieces of English Gothic Fiction: The Monk (1796) by Matthew Gregory …
Politics as Truth Procedure in Divergent Novel
Politics as a truth procedure is a collectivist politics. The political moment is only meaningful if it is materially collective …
Rejuvenating English Literature with German Humour: De Quincey, Jean Paul, and Thomas Carlyle
In an article published in London Magazine in December 1821, De Quincey begins by stating that French literature is now …
The Play of Contraries in Marjane Satrapi’s “Persepolis”
Persepolis, a graphic memoir in two volumes by Iranian writer, filmmaker and graphic artist Marjane Satrapi, is the most subversive …
Extrapolating the Nigerian Condition in Hangmen Also Die
One Nigerian playwright whose brief pilgrimage on earth has been blessed by providence to create enduring and provocative plays about …
A Stylistic Analysis of the Use of Language in “L’État Z’Héros ou la Guerre des Gaous” by Maurice Bandaman
This article examines the stylistic analysis of the use of language in L'Etat zhéros où la guerre des gaous by …
A Study on the Application of Tiger Metaphors in Diaspora Woman’s Growth Narrative – Focusing on Tae Keller’s Novel: When You Trap a Tiger
Korean-American author Tae Keller applied Korean tiger stories such as Sister and Brother Who Became the Sun and the Moon …
Puruyanan: The Waray Concept of Home in Selected Poems of Victor N. Sugbo
To examine how puruyanan, the Waray concept of home, is integral to the overall poetics of Victor N. Sugbo, this …
Distinguished Female Kanshi Poets Princess Uchiko and HaraSaihin — Paternal Influence and Artistic Freedom
Chinese poetry in Japan prospered in the Heian and Edo periods. This paper points out the common characteristics of the …
Rereading Classics: Edges Between Worlds in James Joyce’s “Eveline”
The hypothesis underpinning this essay is that, in Joyce’s “Eveline”, wish worlds, speculative extensions and intention worlds allow the protagonist …
In the Origins of Brazilian Haiku – Guilherme de Almeida
Haiku is a trendy poetic genre, read and written by many worldwide. Originating in Japan, this small piece of three …
A Queen and a Masque: Anne of Denmark’s Political Aims in Samuel Daniel’s The Vision of the Twelve Goddesses
In recent years, scholars have laid the foundations for reconsideration and a new interpretation of the figure of Anne of …
Mark Twain’s Historiographic Metafiction about Joan of Arc
This article argues that, in Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc, Twain adopts the narrative technique of "historiographic metafiction" to …
What Draws Young Men Overseas? Identifying the Impact of Overseas Business Experiences on Young Men in Dickens’s Life and Novels
In this article, I focus on the impact of overseas business experiences on the young men in Dickens’s life and …
Map-Making and the Adoption Atlas in ‘Killing Karoline’ by Sara-Jayne King
The recent proliferation of adoption narratives in mainstream media provides fertile narrative soil for sowing the seeds of adoption activism, …
The Psychology of the Other; Narrating Diaspora Identity and Psychic Trauma in Leila Halaby’s Once in a Promised Land
The word diaspora invokes trauma. Being positioned in the in-between space and the struggle to assert identity, attempting to rearticulate …
Happiness and Heartlessness Represented in Cantonese Opera: With Reference to Burning of the Incense and Scent of a Lady
Cantonese opera is seen as a treasure stemmed from the Southern part of China, and was made extremely popular in …
Violence for Self-respect in the Indian Socio-political Context: The Psychological Intricacies Perpetuating Yellow Journalism in Siddhartha Deb’s Surface
This article will read Siddhartha Deb’s novel Surface (2005) to illuminate how an unsuspecting individual becomes prey to yellow journalism. …
Sustained Moment of Insight in Simeon Dumdum’s if I Write You This Poem, Will You Make It Fly
A rich structure of Filipino beliefs about animals inspires this paper to compare them with poetry, particularly, the poetry of …
A “Skillful Artifice” of the Impeccable and the Masculine: Examining Gender and Trauma in Fun Home
As a text, Fun Home represents a closeted homosexual father to a lesbian daughter in a nuanced yet complex way. …
Eating, Chatting, and Talking Back: Japanese Modern Schoolgirls’ Agency in the Early Twentieth Century
The eyes are important interpretive tools when analyzing modern schoolgirls of the early twentieth century. Scholars in the field of …
Disease Selects its Victims: Inequality in Falling Ill to Infectious Disease in Bleak House
Though unnamed, the infectious disease in Dickens’s Bleak House (1852–53) is definitely smallpox. The fever, delirium, blindness, and scars that …
Filipino American Identity Development in Something in Between
Identity development is essential in all human lives. Adolescents who are members of ethnic minority groups are seemingly more confused …
“Fraternal and Sisterly Love”: Observing Disintegration and Resilience in the Tenant of Wildfell Hall and Shirley
The Brontës in 1845 were a tight-knit community in Haworth of three grown-up sisters and a brother – Charlotte, Emily, …
“There Is Always the Other Side, Always”: Women’s Voice and Identity in Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea and Kanafani’s Umm Saad
Published in the 1960s, Ghassan Kanafani’s Umm Saad and Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea portray a gendered image of women …
‘Climate Fiction Narratives’: A Study of Maja Lunde’s Novels – The History of Bees and The End of the Ocean
Climate fiction (Cli-fi) is a genre that is gaining momentum over the last decade due to the proclivity in the …
From Jungles and Rivers: Animals in Malaysian Indigenous Literature in English
Recent developments in the local literary arts scene have seen the emergence of publications on folktales and fables of Malaysian …
Flooding of Lust – A Review of “Norweigian Wood”
In the story, the young people may love two different persons at the same time. This can be seen as …
A Tale of Difference and Resilience in Amitav Ghosh’s Gun Island
Human society, locally or globally, is characterized not only by its diversity but also by interdependence which accords harmony among …
A Comparative Analysis of Metaphors Constructing Danger and Force Dynamics in Buddhism Discourse
This study aims to compare the metaphors used to conceptualize danger and their force dynamic patterns in the dharma books …
A Cross-cultural Analysis of Self-examination in Shakespeare’s Hamlet and Chinese Philosophy and Tragedy
Western culture and Chinese culture are two completely different cultural systems in the world, while both of them can be …
Who is Oliver? Unexecuted Wills and Threatened Legal Rights in Oliver Twist
In this paper, I examine the unexecuted wills and the difficulty in exercising legal rights in Oliver Twist. In Dickens’s …
“Visual Colonization”: A Discussion on “Visual Expression” in Geling Yan’s Novels
Visual culture has increasingly shifted into a dominant culture in contemporary society. More and more visual factors appear in non-visual …
The Republic of Heaven: A Return to Mother Earth and Ancient Pagan Religions in ‘His Dark Materials’
Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials trilogy is primarily regarded as an attack on religion and is thought to specifically discredit …
“The Human Condition” in Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot
In his essay about two brother-painters, the van Velde brothers, Samuel Beckett presents a view that both of them share …
Representation of Spirituality in Elizabeth Gilbert’s (2006) Eat Pray Love and its Reception in a Chinese Context
Elizabeth Gilbert’s (2006) memoir Eat, Pray, Love depicts her journey of self-discovery following a difficult divorce. Her travels consist of …
Panethnic Moments: Mestizaje and the Philippines in Discourses of Hygiene and Disease
Gloria Anzaldúa’s mestiza consciousness refers to a new consciousness defined by ambiguity and an attentiveness to difference; mestiza consciousness’s refusal …
Filial Responsibility: A Pragmatic Reading on the Fictions of Ernesto Lariosa
The family is an essential social unit. It is in the family that people are prepared for the public community. …
Energy’s Proleptic Promises: Locating Infrastructure and the Future Anterior in Yamashita and Lerner
This paper draws on recent developments in the energy humanities to argue for a more multifaceted account of the temporality …
Double Consciousness in British Asian Writing
My father’s work took us all over the world, then to a British boarding school. The result was a duality …
Evolution of Narcissistic Narration
The study is done to show how the fictional world is influenced by the character’s "Narcissism" and whether it keeps …
Space as a Sign System’: Exploring Lexical Semantics in Relation to Cultural Geography – A Case Study of Ursula K. Le Guin’s ‘Buffalo Gals, Won’t You Come Out Tonight’
The research paper attempts to examine as to how the idea of ‘space’ when regarded as a literary construct, may …
Moral Choice and Compliance: Exploration of Justice in “The Love Song of J.Alfred Prufrock”
Set in an urban locale of early 20th century Progressive America, T.S.Eliot’s poem “The Love Song of J.Alfred Prufrock” accounts …
Writing the Feminine: John Fowles’s Modern Myth
John Fowles writes courageous and other-worldly women characters. John Fowles explores relationships between men and women and has built his …
Hope and Destruction: A Comparative Analysis of the Consciousness of Death Between Patriotism and Sinking
Sinking (沉淪, 1921), the renowned Chinese novel by Yu Dafu was often compared with a Japanese novel, Melancholy in the …
Regionalism and Issues: Understanding Indian Unity in Diversity Through Literature
To understand regionalism,we need to know various dimensions of the region.Region as a social system,reflects the relation between different human …
Regaining the Decay of Human Values
The myriad of ethnic and sub-ethnic groups in Indonesia causes similarly numerous creations, communication, and performance of folklore. Today, however, …