Harold Pinter`s plays are visual on the one hand, visual elements such as lighting and objects are used as a part of the visual language and on the other hand, the human subject is presented to be a seeing thing, in contrast to a thinking thing (cogito) as Rene Descartes asserted Closely linked to vision and the visual, the problem of identity is placed at the center of Pinter..
This paper examines how Lucy Snowe achieves independence and freedom through the act of writing Lucy is an autobiographical writer who is narrating her own life from her childhood She values the form of the written word, in this case, the letters, and prefers writing to speaking The implied meaning of Lucy`s writing will be scanned through Helene Cixous`s theory on feminine..
Media coverage of Barack Obama during his presidential campaign reveals the extent to which the historical debates over who is an American and what it means to be acknowledged as an American are deeply racialized as well as structured along the lines of a blackwhite binary This questioning of Obama`s Americanness and insistence upon identifying him only as black rather tha..
The anthropocentric ethos of American Transcendentalism denies the ultimate reality of nature because it posits the human mind as the sole provenance of reality The naturalist in Henry David Thoreau (1817-62) revolted, resorting to nature as the very source of all life His revolt never led to a complete break with Emersonian idealism, but it signalled the coming of a Thor..
The best way to understand Tennyson`s early poems is to read them along with reviews on them In particular, the reviews of Tennyson`s first collections of poem, Poems, Chiefly Lyrical(1830), are important because they discuss the issues with which Tennyson and Victorian poetics were concerned for several decades One of the major issues the reviews raise is about the quest..
In 1790s, canonical English Romantic poets implemented the strategy of exclusion against the Gothic literature For example, Wordsworth denigrated it in the Preface to Lyrical Ballads (1800), citing each generic category, as frantic novels, sickly and stupid German tragedies, and deluges of idle and extravagant stories in verse But behind their strategic underestimation,..
The aim of this paper is to examine and evaluate Dr Johnson`s view of text as performance in his hermeneutic critical perspective Johnson does not believe in the purely ontological or autotelic aspects of literature, but rather understands literature in terms of hermeneutics critical procedures are basically performances Johnson steadily insists upon the truthfulness and..
This essay examines Mary White Rowlandson`s Narrative and Sarah Kemble Knight`s Journal, two literary landmarks in the field of early American literature Both Rowlandson`s Narrative and Knight`s Journal track the singular experiences of puritan goodwomen who move beyond their traditional place in the colonial homestead Notwithstanding the circumstantial difference b..
In an interview, Derrida made an exceptionally succinct and resolute remark on justice If anything is undestructable, it is justice The law is deconstructable, fortunately it is infinitely perfectable Derrida`s resituation of justice over-against law is a representative example of his revisionary elaboration of socio-political concepts such as gift, hospitality, forgive..
In whose womb will modified embryo be grown This question is a realistic challenge for women and men in the 21st century And the social and psychological impacts that its solutions can cause have become a big issue The development of birth technology will change birth environment As a matter of fact, an artificial womb, unlike other artificial organs, will give an important ..
Poetry is Wordsworth`s means to find or constitute himself in the world where his self and world were not present before Readers of Wordsworth frequently overlook the creating self for the created one, as if the poet`s thoughts and feelings could not be discerned from his conviction to speak them His self-exploration in Tintern Abbey could be explained as the creation or di..
The primary factors of the successful revival of Fifteen Strings of Cash(λ) in 1956 can be summarized as followed The planning of the performance and the adaptation from the original work of Qing dynasty made a bold attempt to reform Kunqu opera(м) The adaptedrewritten traditional drama was particularly re-welcomed when it met with the contemporary political a..