Joseph Conrad`s attitude towards women is so complex that it often eludes and resists any simple categorization There are some elements, on the one hand, that lead one to suspect that Conrad may have been a misogynist Marlow`s misogyny in Chance may have something to do with Conrad`s own the former (who appears in Youth, Heart of Darkness, Lard Jim, and Chance), perhaps th..
Bellow`s Jewishness is, if not distinct, easily comprehensible to the readers with a little Jewish sensibility He weaves into his novel two Jewish biblical incidents, that of Abraham smashing his father`s idols and Jacob wrestling with the Angel The former is used to give the introspective and intellectual protagonists the role of prophets for a new future, the latter a n..
D H Lawrence`s enmity against modern civilization was so strong that he even called himself the enemy of civilization It was, however, not in his nature to rest in enmity, hatred and anger What he truly seeked for was a `real` change of the diseased modern world It is Lady Chatterley`s Lover, more than any other novels, that dramatically reveals his most imaginative achievem..
The identity of the Indian nation is a crucial question in reading E M Forster`s A Passage To India In order to argue for the Indian nation in colonial struggle, I challenge the traditional readings of the novel that defend the identity of India as a mystery to the West, the restoration of the precolonial India, or the Westernized India If the identity of India is interpr..
The crucial concern of Toni Morrison has been the reconstruction of Afro-American history which has been disremembered and unaccounted for In particular, Toni Morrison is concerned with Afro-American`s migration to the city after Emancipation and the meaning of Harlem in Jazz The purpose of this paper is to study the meaning of City in the Afro-American history and to e..
Leslie Marmon Silko`s Ceremony is a story about storytelling and its curative power As an Indian writer, Silko tries to depict a world made of stories and create reality based on narrative power to heal For her, the novel is a means to restore this mysterious power of language, which consequently produces a ceremony of reading An act of telling and of reading is interch..
Don Delillo`s fiction has been consistently praised by reviewers and honored by grants since 1970s If not neglected, then I want to analyze the comparative value of his works and expand the academic attention My title is intended to demonstrate why and how DeLallo treats the ideas of systems theory, a contemporary scientific paradigm The systemic view of the earth sees the..
This paper, a study of Kingston`s The Woman Warrior, focuses on her dialogic technique Kingston in The Woman Warrior does not make use of multiple narrators, but in some ways her book is just as dialogic because she utilizes stories from a variety of sources and reveals to the reader the effect these stories have on her Whether through multiple representations or through th..
One main goal of this essay will be to examine the tropics and features in the historiographic and encyclopedic narrative discourses-such as the synchronous depiction of subject matter in three dimensions-the critical view point of postmodernism Through this approach this essay will show Pynchon`s narrative poetics such as the unconventional narrative discourse, decentere..
This paper aims to read Toni Morrison`s novels in terms of `double-consciousness` defined by WEB Du Bois in The Souls of Black Folk, taking The Bluest Eye, Sula, and Beloved as examples Her novels develop from fragmentation of double-consciousness toward double voicedness or double vision shaped by transforming it creatively The Bluest Eye examines splitness of charac..
DH Lawrence`s Women in Love, starting in 1913 and finally published in England in 1921, has been frequently discussed as a product of suppressed homosexuality The rejected Prologue to Women in Love reveals more explicitly Birkin`s homosexual desire for Gerald than the published work Thus seeking the meaning of suppressed homosexuality and configuring what it ultimately ..