Consciously or unconsciously, the East and the West have been endlessly meeting and fusing We live in the time when the epoch of Kiplings false prophecy is already over and when the harmonious balance between East and West is, above all, important for the peaceful living of our human beings From Emerson, we can learn the wisdom of equilibrium requisite for the modern time..
Thackeray\s Vanity Fair has evoked many different critical responses, especially, regarding its narrator Many critics who follow Henry James\ art of fiction have been troubled with the intrusive narrator, but some critics such as Wayne Booth have recognized the value of an intrusive narrator and argued that the use of an intrusive narrator is most appropriate in the dramat..
The figure of the critical intellectual first appears in Wharton\s short fiction of the 1890s and early 1900s, then in the form of the protagonist of her first important novel, The Valley of Decisions(1902), a historical novel set in the eighteenth century Italy, and finally in Selden of The House of Mirth(1905) Throughout the fiction from 1899 to 1905, Wharton exhibits a ..
The theme of incest is featured prominently in Faulkner\s fictions In view of the fact that incest is committed within family, it is always discussed in the connection with Oedipus complex In the face of Caddy\s promiscuity, Quentin in The Sound and the Fury, as a hereditary of the Southern tradition, is convinced that incest will provide the means to restore the lost inno..
The Marble Faun is Hawthorne\s last romance after his eight years\ stay in England and Europe, during which he completed no literary works When the romance was published in 1860, it was quite popular and sold well Most people attribute its early popularity to the fact that it could be read both as a serious romance of allegory and as a practical book of travel guide But this ..
The Bible says that if you get the world and lose your own soul, you are nothing If the translator mistranslates the title, it means that he did not understand the work It means that if he has lost the soul of the work In Korea the history of translation has been a long history of mistranslation as exhibited in my article Those mistranslated titles indicate where we are, givin..
The human body itself is a reality We all have a body We live, die, suffer pain and play with our bodies The body has been configured in a variety of experiential, social, and technological contexts and through differences in theoretical approaches As the body has come to form a central field of social, cultural and political activity, this paper examines the body revealed in..
Dickens\ critics have found Esther irritating and insipid they evaluate Esther\s narrative as no more than a comforting contrast to the third person omniscient narrative However, I argue that Esther has ability to represent herself as a subject As an agent, she is dependent on her status as a person who lost her mother
For Esther, a missing mother signifies anxiety and fe..
One of the most important phases in American literary history is roughly the late 19th and early 20th centuries Theodore Dreiser considered this period as one of socioeconomic, political, and cultural upheavals, which transformed the lives of the American people For the people at large, the whole scale of values underwent a transformation, and an entire nation danced to th..
In the late 1960s, Ed Bullins came to the forefront of the Black Theater Movement, competing for the position of the leader of the Movement with LeRoi Jones Jones initiated the Revolutionary Theater, which foregrounded violence as a means of reorienting the black soul affected by white culture toward a revolution In contrast, Bullins emphasized the Theater of Bl..
It has been said that art has reflected the industrial development and the masses\ desire As the digital technologies change our ways of life, so the literary industry including publication, literary contents and studies, if it wants to exist, must be changed The debate over the death of literature begun in 1960s was the sign of the complex transformations of a literary p..
A long poem, Endymion which Keats wrote in 1817, having determined his destiny as a poet, and his desire to get a fame, reveals the contrast between reality and dream, mortality and immortality, naturalism and supernaturalism, and earth and heaven Keats also finds melancholy in delight, and pleasure in pain through the various encounters in the poem It is very oxymoronic vi..
In general it is said that the theme of Romeo and Juliet is characterized by the love Romeo and Juliet have for each other, which meets a tragic death, and yet is cherished in the minds of the readers as being eternal This paper aims to find out how this theme can be delivered effectively by analyzing oxymorons which Romeo, Juliet, and minor characters use in the play
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Ormond tells the story of the young chaste Constancia Dudley\s attempts to support herself and her family and to preserve her republican virtue, in a community threatened by a yellow fever epidemic, rising tides of immigrant refugees from political crises around the world, and confidence games associated with emergent market capitalism In this novel Brown establishes a set..