This paper investigates Wollstonecraft`s reconfiguration of motherhood in context of contemporary republican discourse of civic sovereign personhood Although sharing the same basis of Lockean republican discourse that is dependent upon the idea of possessive subjectivity with contemporary thinkers, Wollstonecraft foregrounds gender to the conditions of the seemingly ..
Mansfield Park can be read as a theatrical performance of its own, with each Bertram member playing the role asked of herhim in a traditional patriarchal society, and by inserting a theatrical episode, Lovers` Vows, into the narrative trajectory of Mansfield Park, Jane Austen makes a dual comment on the essential theatricality of the story she is trying to tell Austen has ..
The purpose of this paper is to analyze the cause of the separation of satirist`s private integrity from the public function of satire in Alexander Pope`s later satires This paper first points out that in the Epilogues to Satires (1738), Pope`s last formal verse satire, Pope advocates his personal integrity at the expense of the public function of satire unlike in Satire II..
This thesis proposes to study Johnson`s views on literature as they appear in the strikingly contrasting pair of biographies, Life of Savage and Life of Swift Johnson dearly cherished biography as the most delightful and useful genre of literature since it teaches the common reader the art of living Life of Savage, written about 35 years before Lives of the Poets, shows a ..
In his revolutionary age Blake considered himself to be a last poet-prophet who followed Miltonic tradition As a critique, Blake viewed Milton as a prophetic poet who had become assimilated to Urizen, and created a poem, Milton, in order to correct Milton`s religious and artistic errors He recognized that Milton`s religion had been the cause, by which the oppressive situa..
This paper aims to probe into the frustration of love in John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester`s poetry that threatens the sense of existence This paper argues that Rochester does not acknowledge a priori reasoning as a valid ground of knowledge but recognize the sense experience as the only source of truth Thus, for Rochester, pleasure, the satisfaction of sense, is the summumbo..
Critical studies of Robinson Crusoe have tended to treat the novel as a single-voiced discourse, focusing on one subject or another among those related to its various moral, religious, economic, political, and ideological themes The time of great social change in which the story is set, however, makes it tempting, and rewarding, to discuss it as a text of heteroglossia Close..
This essay offers a textual and literary criticism of Aphra Behn`s Lover`s Watch, or the Art of Love-a collection of letters written in a mixture of prose and verse from a female lover to her male partner telling him how to spend his day-with an excerpt from the text Janet Todd classifies this work as a free translation of French La Montre, whereas it was included in the pos..
The basic premise of this paper is that the topography of early eighteenth-century poems on London typically zooms in on its streets, particularly the spatial margins of London streets, as a Lefebvrean representational space, and on the `strollers` of London streets, from poor poets to prostitutes Their apparent spatial mobility suggests freedom and empowerment in an age ..
Susan Choi`s The Foreign Student is a love story between Chang, a Korean student, hence the foreign student from an American perspective, and Katherine, an American woman Chang is an outcast from the Korean society with the background of his father`s collaboration with the Japanese colonial rule in Korea and his own collaboration with the American rule of Korea in the so..
The purpose of this paper is to analyze the musical narrative strategies in Toni Morrison``s Beloved Through the American history, it is natural that Afro-American musicnegro spirituals, blues, jazz, etchas healed their spirit suffered from the slavery experience in the past As they sang along or played music together, they tried to give comfort to their exhausted li..
The Artificial Nigger is a story of a pedagogical journey, during which a grandfather plans to teach his grandson the lesson of wisdom and humility The lesson may be summed up as following You ain``t as smart as you think you are The two main characters whose name happens to be Head, reflecting their over-blown head, undergo most excruciating ordeals during the one-..
It is an all time consensus among literary critics that the USA trilogy is John Dos Passos`` magnum opus Indeed, the trilogy is a magnum opus not only for his atypical career as a professional novelist, but also for modernism itself as a whole Especially with its textual architectonic, which employs a variety of the artistic styles and devices of modernism such as modernist ..
This paper examines how and why Owen Wister``s The Virginian has been considered to mark the beginning of the modern Western In order to examine the validity of its status as the prototype of the Western, the paper begins with a comparative reading of two film versions, focusing on what gets changed in the films so that I may gain a clue in understanding the importance of the..