Tag: Literature

How Are Men Portrayed as the Passive Heterosexual Lover in Both Catullus’ and Propertius’ Love Poetry?
16th Dec 2019
Introduction:   Table of Contents   Introduction……………………………………………………….3   Men as dependent lovers……………………….…….……………5 R...

Comparison of Rape Narratives in Study Plays
16th Dec 2019
Introduction: This chapter will explore the “captive’s dilemma” and examine the systematic victimization of women and their methods of survival in the three “covert” study plays, The Trojan Women by Euri...

A Canine-centric Critique of Selected Dog Narratives
16th Dec 2019
Introduction: A CANINE-CENTRIC CRITIQUE OF SELECTED DOG NARRATIVES Page 2 Table of Contents Acknowledgments ……………………………………...

Modernist Fiction and the Camera-Eye
13th Dec 2019
Introduction: “Style in itself is an absolute manner of seeing”: Modernist Fiction and the Camera-Eye. In 1897, Joseph Conrad began “The Nigger of Narcissus” with the declaration that, “my task which I am...

Comparison of Magical Realism and Surrealism
12th Dec 2019
Introduction: The comparison between the magical realism and the surrealism The research provides the comparison between the magical realism of South America and the surrealism of Europe, with a particular referenc...

Analysing Slavery in Mark Twain's Writing
12th Dec 2019
Introduction: INTRODUCTION According to widely held view on slavery, it is has been acknowledged that it is ‘a virtually universal feature of human history’ that has preserved up to nowadays.  As absolute...

Influence of Language Proficiency on Literature Interest
11th Dec 2019
Introduction: CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION 1.0 Introduction It has been 9 years since the literature in English component was first introduced by the Ministry of Education and to be included in English subject syllabus f...

Maya Angelou and Richard Wright: The Dream of Freedom
11th Dec 2019
Introduction: Graduation is the best day of ever young kids life, its almost as important as learning to read and write. But in reference to both being very important, racism and segregation has played the biggest ...

An Analysis of Hybridity in Ahdaf Soueif's Works
11th Dec 2019
Introduction: 1. Introduction “[I am] like hundreds of thousands of others: people with an Arab or a Muslim background doing daily double-takes when faced with their reflection in a western mirror.” (Soueif 200...

History of Artist Expression in Comic Books
11th Dec 2019
Introduction: Comic books, like many art forms, have been co-opted by a hungry consumer capitalist economy which makes a Faustian bargain with its artistic meals: give me your subversive art forms and ideas, this e...

Nonhuman Passages in Latinx American Poetry and Performance
11th Dec 2019
Introduction: THAT’S FIERCE: NONHUMAN PASSAGES IN LATINX AMERICAN POETRY AND PERFORMANCE. This dissertation engages with U.S. Latinx and Latin American texts through critical theories of the nonhuman as a way o...

The Shadowy Selva Oscura: Predecessors and Legacies
11th Dec 2019
Introduction: The Shadowy Selva Oscura: Predecessors and Legacies This wood burns a dark Incense. Pale moss drips In elbow-scarves, beards   From the archaic Bones of the great trees. Blue mists move over Dark Wo...

Machiavelli’s ‘The Prince’ and its Relevance to the Modern Political Sphere
11th Dec 2019
Introduction: Machiavelli was a civil servant for the Florentine republic. He lost his political position and power when the republic collapsed and the Medici family returned to rule. Banished from political life ...

Marilyn Hacker and Adrienne Rich: Feminist Analysis
11th Dec 2019
Introduction: INTRODUCTION A Shifting Feminist Poetics: Formalism, Nomadism, Transculturalism, and the Braid     . . . someone else I might have been if memory braided with history. —Marilyn Hacker, “Squares...

Loss of Land and Shift of Identity in John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath
11th Dec 2019
Introduction: This chapter makes an attempt to examine, analyze and interpret the issue of loss of land correlates with loss/shift of human identity in Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath through ecocritical pers...

Cartographies of the Posthuman Feminist Body in Winter Numbers
11th Dec 2019
Introduction: CHAPTER TWO Cartographies of the Posthuman Feminist Body in Winter Numbers . . . They wore the blunt tattoo, a scar, if they survived, oceans away. Should I tattoo my scar? What would it say?  Mar...

India and “Indianness” in Salman Rushdie’s Works
10th Dec 2019
Introduction: How does one, or indeed can one, define a nation and its associated identities, specifically one of such multiplicity and diversity as India?...

Analysis of Marilyn Hacker's Letters
10th Dec 2019
Introduction: Hacker’s letter, and her correspondence to Russ, reveals Hacker’s thoughts on Rich as a talented and revered yet unfair mentor. The letter presents the discourse of the child that strives but is ...

Portrayals of Female Empowerment in Shōjo
10th Dec 2019
Introduction: Despite the preconceived reputation of heavy sexism and portrayal of female subjectivity in shojo manga and subculture, there are also many that rebel from the norm of utilizing distressed female protagonists and regular heterosexual relationships in romances by implementing gender-bending and anti-heteronormative elements in their stories....