This paper attempts to read the dark pictures of the capitalism of our own time back into The Merchant of Venice The play tries to establish a congruence between economic and ethical conduct in the emergent capital society which is premised on the priority of money over human value But the central design to provide a congruence between those two finally turns out to be incomp..
The aim of this study is to examine Keats\s engagement with the events and ideas of his day While Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron and Shelley have all been studied in relation to contemporary affairs, Keats\s poetry, up to the present, has too often been held apart as secluded bower of imagination This is partly due to the fact that Keats\s political and ideological com..
Endgame has been regarded as an expression of Beckett\s bleak and tragic vision Moreover, some critics think it is a nihilistic and decadent work This article shows that this play places stress not on the upcoming deathend but on their survivalcontinuity in a desperate situation And the ultimate aim of this study is to provide positive evidences to the view that Beckett is ..
Pinter, from the first, has consistently raised complex questions about the relations of individuals to coercive power, although his style of presentation and angles of approach have changed over the forty year span of his career This means his political awakening was not a sudden conversion Throughout his works Pinter focuses his attention on questions of power, marginali..
This study is to examine different views on the theory of self-reflexive novels and evaluate Lost in the Funhouse by John Barth based on some aspects of his view on postmodernism
Lost in the Funhouse consists of fourteen stories, which is a series of stories rather than a collection It is one of his most experimental novels, in that he uses a special device The structure of ..
Hardy as one of the spokesmen of what he called the new dark age was one of the writers who came under the influence of the new thought and who recognized the immense influence of environment upon man No writer has excelled Hardy in the power of convincing us that he writes from experience Hardys Wessex as a poetic symbol, seen through the prism of a romantic imagination..
Wordsworths spots of time and Woolfs moments of being represent the recollection of the past and provide intense creative moments For both writers, memory has a transformative power that can dissolve the distinction between life and art memory is a mode of imagination that transforms raw experience into art Woolfs To the Lighthouse explores Wordsworths ide..
For both D H Lawrence and James Joyce, the city image plays a formative role in their growth as writer They share their attaching importance to the female figures as grounds for leaving for and from their cities Lawrence to the overriding powers of the dark shades of the maternal figure and mistresses, Joyce to the liberating fantasy for a girl The labyrinthine entanglement ..
In Poetry, Language, Thought, Heidegger gives us an insight for the explication of the space of possibilities in literary works in which the reality of human life is portrayed, arguing that through the work of art, the space for the truth of life and Being are opened up and realized
In the Heiddegerian sense, Conrads Heart of Darkness also exhibits the moment of the openn..
In this paper we have discussed some problems of subject NP and verb agreement(=VA) that can have argumentation in English syntax Chapter 2 has presented a nature applicable to verb agreement by the following topics (1) VA and complex NPs which have quantifiers, (2) VA and units of measurment Chapter 3 has focalized on the following themes (1) VA and cleft sentence, (2) V..
The purpose of this study is to analyze of the English modals by the epistemic approach through surveying the syntactic areas and semantic areas
Fries(1940) classified the modals as follows (a) ability or power (b) possibility or doubt (c) permission (d) duty or obligation (e) customary activity (f) fitness or propriety (g) futurity or prediction (h) wish or willingness
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A growing number of expatriates are coming to Korea to teach conversational English Many are professionally qualified only by a baccalaureate degree in any field, because no more is required by their employers
They are recruited abroad to teach in eohagwon, private language training institutes operated by individuals, by business conglomerates and, increasingly, by univ..
W H Auden led young intelligent English minds in a drive against social evil in 1930s But he suddenly immigrated into America in January 1939, and disappointed his followers, which is a turning point of his values from secular to religious In the very year he wrote biographical poems on four authors of thought Voltaire, Arnold, Pascal, and Melville Voltaire and Arnold cont..
The aim of this thesis is to re-interpret Keats\ Ode on a Grecian Urn which has still been mystified by most of critics and readers who have mainly been pinned down to the mythic parts of the poem This is the emotional fallacy that used to be forbidden by New-Criticism, and the impressive way which appears among blind critics and readers, lack of poetic insight The two faults ..
T S Eliot has literally broken new grounds for poetry writing in English literature One of his innovating concepts is that poetry is no longer a linear presentation of ideas based on narrative structure, but a simultaneous existence of ideas in a spatial form This has become thebasis for his critical ideas of poetry as well as his principle of poetry writing Seeds of spatial ..