This article illuminates that Hardy has a deep feminist awareness as a meliorist despite his seemingly pessimistic view about women`s fate and feminist movement Feminist critics argue that a contradiction and inconsistency shown in Hardy`s novels result from his conservative and pessimistic feminist awareness Hardy, however, believes that women`s tragedy can be averted ..
In light of the numerous studies on Bakhtin`s theory and the considerable influence which the works of Bakhtin are exercising recently, it is surprising to notice that attempts to apply his theory to any novel are so rare Actually, this is not entirely the fault of the critics A major weakness in Bakhtin`s position is that he never offers any systematic analysis of an entire ..
Since the late twentieth century we have witnessed the rapid de-territorialization of existing concepts and boundaries French philosophers, Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari in their 1980 book A Thousand Plateaus Capitalism and Schizophrenia, designate the generator of de-territorialization as the war machine They explain that the war machine constantly undermines est..
Henry James was one of the first writers who practiced authorship as a profession Throughout his career as a professional writer, he received ongoing recognition from editors in both England and America for his literary achievements He is also believed to have secured financial stability thanks to an enormous inheritance from his rich father Despite this seeming stability..
Rasselas is a philosophical story about how to live Its generic ambiguity of being neither a novel nor an allegory has been an obstacle to our fair understanding of the work as a classic To do justice to the work, however, we need to accept the generic complexity of Rasselas as it is, instead of trying to unjustly measure it against a specific form of genre It is not until then..
This paper examines the representation of working class women`s body in Thomas Hardy`s Far From the Madding Crowd and The Woodlanders focusing on the relation of Vkictorian discourses on the female body and the signification of the text Fanny`s body is represented as a scarcely visible form, shadow or spot and observed only in fragments However, as a corpse, her body chan..
During mid-Victorian period, government reports, pamphlets from medical and social reformers, newspaper articles, debates in tbe Commons and the Lords testify to a widespread and serious debate on the problem of prostitution Gaskell was an active participant in this discussion This article examines Gaskell`s Ruth in the context of mid Victorian discussion on prostitutio..
The purpose of this paper is to discuss James`s response to aestheticism in The Spioils of Poynton The Spoils of Poynton(l896) has been considered the first absolutely pure example of the James method by many James critics, which means that this work makes a way to James`s late novels Besides, this work can be classified as one of James`s late novels according to James`s re..