The genre of the foreign observer in Europe has often been seen as a reflection of the European attempt to accommodate the Other as Europe expanded into other cultures and civilizations Under the influence of Said, the genre has often been placed within the discourses of cultural encounters, Western hegemony, and colonialism In this paper, I argue that this genre of w..
This paper explores ways in which British and American novels can be read from an Asian rather than a Eurocentric perspective as a European my contribution is an indirect one, but I suggest ways in which some of these novels open themselves to readings against the Eurocentric grain, from the viewpoint of those who appear as others in these texts I look at two different appro..
This paper will attempt a comparative reading of Toni Morrison`s Beloved, Sherman Alexie`s Indian Killer, and Mahasweta Devi`s Chotti Munda and his Arrow (translated into English from the original Bengali by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak), from the theoretical perspective of subalterneity and its intersection with history as articulated by the Subaltern Studies Collect..
Realism, a conscious and recognizable movement in modern European literature, found its way into China, Japan, and Taiwan in the early 20th century The trio developed a peculiar literary alliance through the efforts of writers of fiction in the first three decades of the century during the time when Taiwan was ruled by the colonial Japanese government but at the same time ..
The relationship between Hogarth and Richardson has been rarely argued while there has been much discussion about the one between Hogarth and Fielding in the satiric tradition However I`d like to stress the importance of looking into the heart of the characters that Hogarth and Richard both have in common Almost all of Hogarth`s narrative pictures describe the dramatic st..
Bram Stoker`s Dracula and Henry James`s The Turn of the Screw, respectively typifying the Gothic horror thriller and the psychological ghost story, invite their readers into a particular state of mind in which such self-contradictory emotions as dread and curiosity, and abhorrence and attraction are fused In Dracula, Stoker externalizes the supernatural vampire into a ..
Often marginalized from major currents of American literary history, Edgar Allan Poe carved out a major niche in American literature through his complex coded representation of African Americans Tony Morrison`s claim that the figuration of an African persona reveals more about the fears and desires of the figuring subject than the figured object and American literature u..
Christopher Newman in The American plays passive roles from the beginning of the novel As a representative American, Newman was welcomed by many American readers, who had had deep inferiority feelings towards the Europeans Unfortunately, however, Newman appears a very much fixed from the beginning so that he will not be a well-developing character like those of James`s l..
The Silver-Fork novels dominated English fiction in the 1820s and 1830s By he time Victoria came to the throne, however, the vogue for the Silver-Fork fiction began to wane This paper argues that the decline of the Silver-Fork fiction resulted from consolidation of a middle-class ideology and the consequent change in attitude toward the aristocracy In light of increasing..
This paper focuses upon the work world represented by the titular hero Adam Bede and the characterization of Hetty Sorrel as reflections of the novelist`s political trend in her early stage of career To argue this point, the first part of this paper deals with the various ways Eliot employed in this pastoral novel to stress the work-ethic as the solid basis of her political ..
Taking Clarissa and Velazquez`s Las Meninas into my interpretative horizon, this paper aims to visualize the hallucinatory effect of Lovelace`s fascinating but perverted self-reflexive vision, and to examine the way in which Lovelace`s vision becomes shattered by Clarissa`s gaze (tears) There is a structural homology between Clarissa and Las Meninas, in the sense that..
In the last three decades, feminist critics have proved that Jane Austen`s seemingly parochial social scene possesses much significance in the context of feminine concerns of the late eighteenth century Moreover, Austen`s novelistic vision can be easily connected to much more general social concerns in the aftermath of the French revolution As F R Leavis and Alistair Duck..
Sterne`s Tristram Shandy is characterized by the principle of uncertainty, which represents itself in Sterne`s refusal of definition as well as the indeterminacy of words and the meaning of marbled pages, a motley emblem of this book Sternean principle of uncertainty is also manifested in the form and structure of this novel whose narrative full of digressions, develops in..
The early decades of the nineteenth century witnessed the emergence of new genres such as local color fiction and national tales that cultivated cultural nationalism by presenting the customs, dialects and oral traditions of a specific region as well as by redefining and constructing national character This phenomenon of literary nationalism is, although seemingly opposed ..