This paper is focused on the analysis of Younghill Kang`s East Goes West The Making of an Oriental Yankee as a criticism of the early 20th century American modernity In the novel, Chungpa Han comes to America with the hope of finding an alternative life in the modern American society However, he gets to know that modern American society is different from what it proclaims..
Critical reflection and revaluation of the modern age coalesced into an outlook popularized as ``postmodernism`` in the latter half of the twentieth century ``Modern project`` viewing history as the triumphant progress toward a utopian society, was based on the newly-formed concept of the human subject in the Age of Enlightenment, that is, the free, rational subject So cri..
The main purpose of this paper is to examine Twain`s criticism of the Gilded Age, which is expressed through the mechanism of the backward-in-time travel to the Arthurian England One may get an impression that the author supports and praises the modern civilization in A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur`s Court On closer reading, however, we can figure out that his real i..
Heinz Insu Fenkl`s Memories of My Ghost Brother is backgrounded on Camptown Buchon which is the first Camptown in Korea and on Camptown Yongsan around United States` Army Headquarters This novel evokes the discomforting and unwelcoming reality which Koreans don`t want to admit and still cannot settle as we want Insu`s tragic family life touches the troublesome issue of..
Henry James`s portrayal of society was exerted in a far more realist vein than he is usually credited for Exploring the realms of the human mind and morality, James has proved to be a superb historian of his day James`s initial idealization of human possibility is constantly offset and re-examined in the context of the moral and social exigencies of life existing in reality ..
This paper examines and establishes the close kinship between Henry James and TS Eliot in terms of their technique of point of view, linguistic method, and artistic sentimentality It then moves onto the comparison of their works, Crapy Cornelia and The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock, in order to demonstrate the kinship, and here lies the originality of this paper First, ..
A general definition of the term Bildungsroman originated in Europe in the eighteenth century is based on ``a novel of formation,`` which describes the protagonist`s growth from childhood to maturity as a process of self-development In the traditional Bildugnsroman, the self exclusively refers to the white Western-European male self in which a rebellious self reconciles ..
The core of the narrative in Flannery O`Connor`s two short stories discussed in this essay is the encounter between the main characters and the devil-intruder The encounter is violent and fatal the devil walks away with the most valuable loot, shaking their self-intoxicated identity to its roots The devil-intruder forcefully crosses the threshold of the self-enclosed and ..