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With the recent publication of The Gospel of Loki (Joanne Harris, 2014), and the forthcoming Vikings exhibition at the British Museum, interest in the life and legends of early Scandinavia is at a high point, but the mythological Old... more
John Skelton is a central literary figure and the leading poet during the first thirty years of Tudor rule. Nevertheless, he remains challenging and even contradictory for modern audiences. This book aims to provide an authoritative... more
The role of food in literature, art and film has been receiving a lot of critical attention lately. Food is not just a matter for the sustenance of life and its cultural and sociological significance is often discussed. Recently numerous... more
SUMMARY Chyk D. Ch. Prose by G. Kvitka-Osnovianenko and English Sentimentalism. — Manuscript. The thesis for the scholarly degree of Candidate of Philology in speciality 10.01.05 — Comparative Literature. — Ternopil National Pedagogical... more
This essay reconsiders the role of subjectivity and spectatorial remove in the experience of the sublime: 'Like a figure on the shore gazing out to sea, the sublime is, to the subject, an incredible spectacle so far removed as to be... more
Storytelling pervades almost every aspect of the law. Many narrativistic legal elements, however, have in fact been little more than historically transitory. Given the precarious status of narrative at law, I argue we should focus instead... more
This research started from Richardson's bravery in stating his idea towards women through the main female character of Pamela or Virtue Rewarded. He wrote this novel to show how a woman should have done in facing the reality in his era... more
Language is inherent and is a very complex phenomenon. Morrison in her Nobel Lecture delivered on 1993 exposes some of the bare and problematic issues of language politics. IN this research paper the politics of language is exposed as the... more
Despite being recognized as one of the greatest playwrights of all time, Shakespeare is well known to have many problematic relationships to power that are extended into his texts. One example of this is patriarchy and his portrayal of... more
Abstract The present study aims at studying the male fools in Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice. Jane Austen’s primary interest is people, not ideas, and her achievement lies in the meticulously exact presentation of human situations, the... more
Essay detailing some of Titian's most famous works, looking at self-expression through painting, memento mori, emotion, as well as topics of mortality and death. The focus of this paper is to shed light on aspects of symbolism found in... more
A speculative thriller about a plot to destroy Israel. An authoritarian President uses rightwing militias to enforce her will. I wanted to write a novel in which "freedom" would be a negative term.
Jeanette Winterson's latest novel Frankissstein (2019) re-animates Shelley's Gothic classic and brings it into a contemporary world of smart-tech and artificial intelligence. The novel mainly focuses on humankind's engagement with... more
Perché il teatro occupa una posizione centrale nella civiltà letteraria inglese? Come nasce il romanzo e quali forme specifiche assume nell’isola? Come evolve la poesia inglese da quando gli elisabettiani importano il sonetto dall’Italia?... more
Cognitive linguistics is a modern school of linguistic thought that originated in the late seventies out of the work of a number of researchers who were interested in the relation of language and mind. It is a new linguistic paradigm... more
This paper focuses on the Brothers Grimm fairy tales. The paper discusses, Little Red Riding Hood, Snow White, Cinderella, Snow White and the Sever Dwarfs among other fairy tales from a feminist perspective.
Breu comentari sobre la novel·la Frankenstein de Mary Shelley, introducció a l'obra i anàlisi d'un fragment.
J Henry Shorthouse (1834-1903) contributed a unique synthesis of Anglo-Catholic sensibilities to to the enduring legacy of the Oxford Movement. "John Inglesant", 'the greatest Anglo-Catholic novel in English literature', speaks... more
This research article aims to explore the inevitable correlation between the themes and concepts of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein with that of the character of Prometheus and John Milton's grand epic Paradise lost. Mary Shelley's novel... more
This paper deals with the nuances of English language used in the domain of Engineering. It focuses on the functional use of English with regard to what is indispensable for the betterment of the students who are engineers-to-be and the... more
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This paper uses Plato and Aristotle's concept of censorhip in discussing the novel titled The Last Duty by Isidore Okpewho. The novel upon reading has explicit profane expressions and other immoral acts which do not help in nurturing of... more
Eighteenth-century Britain saw the emergence of a new poetic genre, the “work” poem which took various forms of labor as its subject and was often written by laborers themselves. Several of these working class poets found their lives... more
La première pièce de Joanna Laurens, The Three Birds, (2000) propose une révision dramatique du mythe grec de Philomèle qui s’inscrit en contrepoint de la fable telle qu’elle est relatée dans les Métamorphoses d’Ovide. Le rapport à la... more
Early literary instances of artificial humanoid and intelligent systems anticipate in a general way the kinds of thematic issues that cyborgs, androids, and intelligent networks like supercomputers bring up for the contemporary notion of... more
This paper explores the theme of exile within two Old English texts: The Wanderer and The Seafarer
Using a prototypical character from ancient times was an aspect that Romantic authors tried to avoid. However, Mary Shelley created on his most well-known novel, Frankenstein, or the modern Prometheus (1818), what it seems to be a... more
Kafka’s Metamorphosis through Marxist and Feminist Lens
"Guavas for Dummies, American Jíbaras, & Postnational Autonomy: When I Was Puerto Rican in the Hemispheric Turn" (2019) re-engages this text after I taught it in Puerto Rico four years. In this 2009 essay, Santiago’s memoir is said to... more
Race has always been a topic that is associated with different emotions, views, and thoughts for thousands of years. Since the beginning of times, people from different racial backgrounds such as Africans have always been judged and... more
Gnosis Vol 4 Issue 1 October 2017