The physical and psychological landscape of the home portrayed in Eugene O`Neill`s Desire Under the Elms is similar to the landscape that Harold Pinter places the heroin Deborah in his play, A Kind of Alaska Pinter`s Deborah functions as the object of the male look and desire, and her true nature is denied Deborah lives in a kind of Alaska where she is more like an ice mar..
This study aims to descriptively investigate the forms and functions of infinitives in Old English as a stage of examining English infinitives chronically, since in Modern English infinitives are used extensively with multiple functions, despite the fact that their forms and structures have become very simple because of the loss of complicated inflectional systems of Old ..
This study focuses on the discourse of the crisis of feminism and feminist pedagogy It asks what should he on the agenda of contemporary feminism, so that proper strategies and visions of feminist pedagogy can be invented Based on the awareness of positioned and situated knowledges, feminism goes against mainstream schemes of thinking and evaluating on the one hand, and mak..
This paper examines the possibility of female bonding between two women of different classes in Elizabeth Stuart Phelps`s The Silent Partner Perley Kelso is a ``leisure class`` woman ensconced in the private sphere, who changes into an active reformer in the public sphere Her change is fueled by two incidents the inheritance of a mill partnership upon bet father`s sudden ..
Jonathan Swift`s excremental vision, the hallmark of his critique of the metropolitan chain of consumption and its excrements, is materialized through and onto the body of the low Other women, in particular London prostitutes, and the urban poor Swift at once repeats and repeals contemporary misogynist and anti-capitalist discourse on consumer economy, which typically po..
Marina Carr, one of the foremost contemporary Irish woman playwrights, came to create her own distinctive dramatic world with her second phase of writing known as the midlands plays The Mai (1994), the first play of the trilogy of the midlands plays, marks a complete change from her first plays of playful satirical feminism strongly influenced by Beckettian absurd theatre C..
The purpose of this paper is to share and to analyze problems and issues discussed by major scholars of feminist pedagogy I review their criticism of traditional approaches (including critical pedagogy) that over-emphasize reasontheory while neglecting (women`s) emotionexperience Martindale``s critique of so-called nurturing pedagogy, Middleton`s life history pedagogy,..
When a man cannot express his sexuality in a socially acceptable way, how does he come to terms with his desire By comparing Wing Biddlebaum in Hands of Winesburg, Ohio and a queer man in An Encounter of Dubliners, this paper seeks to show that repressed sexuality, whatever the reason, tends to express itself through different media i e verbal, tactile or sadistic Both enjo..
It is difficult to define in a word or through one writer what modernism is But it is absurd to exclude James Joyce in discussing modernism, because his work occupies a remarkable position in the topography of modernism It would be more deductive to understand what modernism is through Joyce Modernism is usually defined as being based on the modern life in a cosmopolitan cit..
This paper serves to analyse Dubliners` living conditions induced by the absence of the father As for Dubliners, the absence of the father is a symptom of trauma caused by the hardships of Irish history The long English repression and colonialization causes Dubliners to search for the father as a redeemer We refer to Aeolus as the best description of such a condition In Aeo..
The object of this essay is to bring Foucault`s theory and practice of heterotopias to bear on James Joyce`s Circe episode of Ulysses Reflecting on the meaning of social spaces, Foucault convincingly suggests a refreshing notion of heterotopias Heterotopias, socially marginalized, heterogeneous, and unnoticed, are the ``other spaces`` that are absolutely different from ..
Aesthetics of Joyce`s novels culminates in their intertextuality Each of his works appears to be the widest reservoir of texts of our cultural and literary systems, the most comprehensive encyclopedia of western culture, where recurring segments taken from different sources are included In particular, Joyce elaborates the intertextual strategy within his single works th..
This paper is to investigate how the modernist novels such as Madame Bovary, Heart of Darkness, The Ambassadors, The Great Gatsby, To the Lighthouse, The Sound and the Fury, As I Lay Dying, and Ulysses are different from the 18th and 19th century novels in terms of narrative technique It also illuminates how Ulysses is distinguished from other modernist novels in the is..