Although Zora Neale Hurston\s work has been revived and her reputation has been restored, Hurston\s work, Their Eyes Were Watching God, suffered years of obscurity and critical neglect Specifically, it was reviewed by the major black male writer of the time, Richard Wright, shortly after its release Hurston\s work, according to him, consciously or unconsciously, avoided..
The main purpose of this paper is to clarify how Aristotle and Georg Hegel differ in demonstrating the primary cause that leads to the downfall of the main characters and how they differ in interpreting catharsis on the part of the audience
Aristotle and Hegel define tragedy mainly in terms of a catastrophe for the main characters and its subsequent effects on the audience ..
Lawrence\s idea of \symbol\ is something to invoke our hidden, unclassifiable feelings He proposes a sphere that is intact, and beyond the hold of sheer intellectualism Mental or \ cerebral\ inquiry always tends to abstract the essence from an object It is exploitative in its nature
The symbolic mode of thought-process implies a way of thinking by seeing the intuitive ima..
In the turn of this century, scholars began to explore the nature of metaphor Heated arguments among scholars have produced a gradual, dialectic progress in the theory of metaphor
A Richards (1936) asserts that the metaphors of language derive from the interaction of thoughts Monroe C Beardsley (1958) introduces the \controversion theory\ Beardsley defines the main r..
The purpose of this study is to suggest that Whitman\s meditative poetry reveals various circular images which are similar to the mandala forms representing the wholeness of the self The mandala, which literally means circle and center, represents the totality of personality as lung suggests in his theory of the individuation process Whitman\s circular imagery expressed in..
This study aims to explain how Charlotte Bronte\s narrative is interwoven by various narrative techniques In this paper I have examined the two novels of Charlotte, jane Eyre, Villette
Charlotte Bronte\s jane Eyre has a fundamental conflict between mother-figures and heroine Jane It is Jane\s failure to establish rapport with her primary mother-figure, Mrs Reed that f..
Geoffrey Chaucer\s life was at a cross-section of the higher and the lower levels of society As an esquire of the royal household, he was familiarized with the courtly tradition of higher society as the son of a prosperous London vintner he was well exposed to the diverse experiences of lower society Chaucer\s vision of the discordant concord of human life nurtured by these ..
How can we make poetry relevant and accessible for our students in the era of TVs, CDs, DVDs and other mass media Can we interest our students as much in T S Eliot as they are in techno-dancing This is a challenge that all of us who teach poetry must face My students are not traditional university students They range in age from 18 to 50 They cover a wide sweep of cultures wh..
The purpose of this article is to discuss the nature of whole language and some possible ways of classroom application in EFL setting Firstly, the researcher discussed the nature of whole language and several considerations on the practice of its approach for EFL classroom In chapter , the researcher discussed on the definition and basic doctrines of whole language as w..
Shakespeare\s Troilus and Cressida is a curious play which has been regarded as history, comedy, tragedy, satire, tragic satire, or comical satire The genre is ambiguous So is the world the play depicts It baffles readers, particularly those who expect Homeric heroism and grandeur An extremely ironical world is presented to the readers, in which a fool rails at the so-call..
As a poet, a painter, an engraver by trade, a radical Christian, and a revolutionary, William Blake(1757-1827) attacked the political tyranny of late eighteenth century England through his poetry and art He consciously tried to liberate all Englishmen, or futhermore all human beings, from the \mind-forg\d manacles\ imposed on them by stale, limited belief systems He set ..
Since Samuel Johnson\s famous essay on Milton correctly pointed out the stylistic defects and virtues of Paradise Lost, critics and scholars discussed its values from their own points of view Eliot and Leavis, who were making every efforts to find out the new way of English poetry, attacked Milton\s style and induced the hot Milton controversy They argued that Milton\..
In this ecological crisis, the ecocritical criticism is critical to many literary and cultural tradition including the general Christian viewpoint and its attitude toward nature and literary genre like pastoral literature Pastoral literature has a very long history and it was accepted to Christian monotheistic world though it was born in the Greco-roman, polytheistic worl..
The Waste Land has been read in may ways It has, for example, been read as \a pilgrimage, a homosexual love song, a Grail romance, or an elegy to Western culture devastated by the carnage of the First World War\ What strikes the reader most, however, when reading the poem, is that it is so much full of the images of death corpses, bones, and even zombies We also note that this..