In The Blithedale Romance, the four main characters, Miles Coverdale, Zenobia, Priscilla, and Hollingsworth set out for Blithedale, the utopian community modelled after Brook Farm ostensibly on a mission of reform and dedication Every character from the first chapter wears his veil Not only do the characters sham behind their names, they are also screened by the roles t..
The image of the new world is presumed to be important in Miltons poetry In Miltons Paradise Lost, the new world is important and the imperialistic threat of Satan to the new world is also one of the major interests in this epic Satan launches into the chaos to find the new world with some curiosity for the new world and its dwellers Satan, however, betrays his distorted v..
The purpose of this study was to investigate and analyze performance-based assessment in the context of elementary school English education 12 elementary school teachers answered to an open-ended questionnaire The findings were as follows 1) To measure students achievement and progress were identified as major aims of assessment 2) Observation logs, worksheets, intervi..
John Dryden and Alexander Pope have been considered as the representative critics of Shakespeare in the neoclassical period They praised Shakespeares representation of nature, however, at the same time, they criticized his faults they had a balanced critical point of view In An Essay of Dramatic Poesy, published in 1668, Dryden wrote [Shakespeare] had the large..
There have been two tendencies of Woolf studies One describes Woolfs technical experiments, the other her feminist ideology This dichotomy in critical reading of her novels and essays is contrary to Woolfs own approach to literary criticism In A Room of Ones Own, Woolf merges her feminism with her modernism when she examines the true nature of women and the t..
Based on cultural studies including nationalism, race and racism, and commodity culture, this essay analyses how metropolitan cultural discourses (including cultural nationalism) permeates through colonial commodity culture, how racism or racial discourse interacts with it in colonial Dublin, and how James Joyce, a migrant metropolitan writer, sees through it, mainly f..
In the last decade literary studies eagerly began to respond to one of the most pressing contemporary issues, the global environmental destruction Facing the current environmental crisis, nature-oriented literary criticism emerged Nature has been a matter of interest to the greatest writers of America and England since the nineteenth century It renews its appeal to t..
This paper analyzes Robert Blys poetry as leaping poetry and attempts to reveal some of those characteristics It is assumed that Blys leaping poetry presupposes intuition or enlightenment Many of the journeys toward unconsciousness that the speakers of Blys poetry experience are meditative and lead those speakers as well as its readers towards an inner transformati..
Hamlet and Troilus and Cressida have been known to be written in about 1601, and the basic mechanism of conflicts in both of the two plays is the disillusionment of the ideal values of the 1590s, that is, Renaissance humanism of the new aristocracy Hamlet is a tragedy, but Troilus and Cressida has been variously classified such as comedy, tragedy, satirical comedy, comical s..
Robert Frost is known not only a nature poet, but also a philosophical one The natural objects in Frosts poetry are such common things as trees, birds, woods, and mountain which we can see in every rural village But in depicting nature, he is different from Wordsworth While Wordsworth expresses an intense identification with natural forces, Frost sees the barrier separat..
Troilus and Cressida is such a satirical play that it has been awarded little attention until the twentieth century Nowdays it is widely admired and regarded as an unique play in the Shakespearean canon
The purpose of this paper is to examine the time metaphor which contributes so much to an understanding of the overall design of the play The most remarkable aspect of time ..
Thomas wrote If I Were Tickled by the Rub of Love according to exact and carefully planned method It is evident that he expresses sex with his own unique view point, which has been one of the universal and fundamental concerns to mankind, including birth and growth, life and death
Thomas attempts to express his own idea about oneness of all and tries to correspond the f..
This paper has a purpose to analyze the anonymous first person narrator in The Sacred Fount as an aesthete Jamess criticism of aestheticism goes back to his earlier novel Roderick Hudson and keeps flowing through The Portrait of a Lady, The Tragic Muse, The Spoils of Poynton up to this work and The Golden Bowl In this sense his creative process is that of his response t..