This paper aims at analyzing the living soul of the African Americans based on Toni Morrison`s novels The African`s cyclical concept of time perceives death as a significant phase in a movement that includes birth, life, death, and rebirth Morrison weaves this cosmological view into the African value of mothering, which is found in African Americans` lives to assure the c..
Poe`s The Fall of the House of Usher demonstrates indeterminacy resulting in self-division In the text, self-multiplication is realized by doubling the divided self of the narrator in the persons of Roderick Usher, and his twin sister, Madeline Usher In Usher`s room, which is the indeterminate location and has an indeterminate form, the narrator paces, keeping time with ..
This study examines The Color Purple by Alice Walker with the viewpoint of both sexes equality Walker sticks to not only her black feminist tradition but also Hurston`s narrative strategy She describes the women`s oppression in relation to the sexual discrimination and the patriarchal ideology through her writings Walker depicts an distorted consciousness in her protago..
This study aims to discuss D H Lawrence`s and Toni Morrison`s contextual traits of primitive being in The Rainbow, Women in Love, and Song of Solomon It is a matter of course that Lawrence`s sexual-philosophical theme doesn`t seem to be in contextual line with Morrison`s racial-sexual-sociological one Yet, Lawrence and Morrison share critical perspectives in that their..
That Hawthorne was an acute intellectual and social historian is by now widely accepted by the scholars But Hawthorne`s greatest concern with the New England past was, more often than not, focused on its law and the various systems of jurisprudence and punishment One explanation is that the psychological and biographical circumstances of Hawthorne`s life pulled him to the..
Brown worked on Arthur Mervyn longer than any other novels of his After publishing the first part of Arthur Mervyn, Brown wrote Edgar Huntly and then he finished the second part of Arthur Mervyn, which is actually the final novel of his Therefore, the novel presented the changes of Brown`s ideas on writing, career, and society better than any other works The protagonist of..
In this paper I discuss Heinz Insu Fenkle`s Memories of My Ghost Brother as the art from the contact zone of Korean-American culture clash in Kijichon, a Korean town of Pupyung, periphery to the American Army base The text functions as autoethnographical text as Fenkl himself argues, first by representing the mixed-race children`s subjectivity from inside as opposed to..
In Leaves of Grass, Walt Whitman stimulates a balance between individuality and brotherhood and he encourages the individual to venture himself on the open road of life in order to make sense of life and reach eventual perfection His poems are affirmations of simultaneous self-love and sympathy for others combined with spiritual venture Chopin traces Edna`s awakening to h..
This essay investigates DeLillo`s view of art and artist in the late capitalist society In Mao II, Don DeLillo writes about the disappearance of the aura and the status of author in the late capitalist society In the novel, he is depicting a world in which art is no more than a consumer product and an artist himself a product to sell Due to mechanical reproduction and mass me..
This essay discusses Hawthorne`s The Scarlet Letter in terms of a fragmentary text structured by the differential play of language The discussion is centered upon The Custom House and the concluding part of the novel because a fragmentary text of this sort always problematizes the ideas of textual origin and closure In his preface to The Marble Faun, Hawthorne remarks tha..
It can be said that the work of Henry James deals with characters who have varying points of view and forms of life and are unable to understand each other Maggie and Amerigo of The Golden Bowl feel strongly the otherness which results from the difference between the American and the European point of view That is, the two centers of consciousness of Maggie and Amerigo tend ..
Despite its unprecedented popularity in the book and film market, Joy Luck Club has suffered unfavorable criticisms from a few cultural nationalists and feminists the former find in the work the author`s adoption of Orientalist perspectives and misreading and appropriation of Chinese culture to the liking of the American mainstream, while the latter criticize that the wo..