Literature

Exploring the Concept of Time Using Metaphor in The Aeneid

Ziyang N. Su - Time has always been an abstract concept in human languages. To better understand how this temporal concept is addressed in different languages, it can be explored in the context of classical times through Latin texts. In the well-known piece The Aeneid, the author... Keep Reading »

Racialized Discourse and Economies of Female Saracen Bodies in The Sultan of Babylon

Claire Crow - The fifteenth-century Middle English romance "The Sultan of Babylon" partakes in the Orientalist literary tradition through the poet's linguistic economy of the Other. The paradoxical shortages and surpluses of ethnic descriptors of East female bodies suggest that... Keep Reading »

Redemption and Reconciliation in Oedipus at Colonus and Gran Torino: A Comparative Reading

Lingxiao (Linda) . Gao - This paper presents a comparative analysis of Oedipus at Colonus, a play written by the ancient Greek tragedian Sophocles, and Gran Torino, an American film directed by Clint Eastwood. The two literary productions, although remote as they seem, contain significant... Keep Reading »

Poststructuralism and Female Identity in Sylvia Plath's Ariel

Lillian G. Robles - Sylvia Plath’s posthumously published collection of poetry, Ariel, is perhaps best defined by the vivid imagery that delves deep into Plath’s psyche. Throughout the collection, Plath explores dimensions of herself: her past, present, and future; her demons... Keep Reading »
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The Politics of the Spectacular and the Poetics of the Specular in William Shakespeare's Richard II

Mohamed Anis Ferchichi - When finally, … Richard dashes the mirror to the ground, there shatters not only Richard’s past and present, but every aspect of a super-world … The features as reflected by the looking glass betray that he is stripped of … the pompous body... Keep Reading »
 
 

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Classics
2020, Vol. 2020 No. 1
Exploring the Concept of Time Using Metaphor in The Aeneid
By Ziyang N. Su
Published by Inquiries Journal: Special Editions
Time has always been an abstract concept in human languages. To better understand how this temporal concept is addressed in different languages, it can be explored in the context of classical times through Latin texts. In the well-known piece The... Read Article »
Classics The Aeneid Virgil Time
Medieval Literature
2020, Vol. 12 No. 10
Racialized Discourse and Economies of Female Saracen Bodies in The Sultan of Babylon
By Claire Crow
The fifteenth-century Middle English romance "The Sultan of Babylon" partakes in the Orientalist literary tradition through the poet's linguistic economy of the Other. The paradoxical shortages and surpluses of ethnic descriptors of East female... Read Article »
Saracen Medieval History Middle Ages Islamic Middle Ages Charlemagne Women in Literature Medieval Literature
Comparative Literature
2020, Vol. 12 No. 10
Redemption and Reconciliation in Oedipus at Colonus and Gran Torino: A Comparative Reading
By Lingxiao (Linda) Gao
This paper presents a comparative analysis of Oedipus at Colonus, a play written by the ancient Greek tragedian Sophocles, and Gran Torino, an American film directed by Clint Eastwood. The two literary productions, although remote as they seem,... Read Article »
Comparative Literature Sophocles Clint Eastwood Tragedy Reconciliation Atonement
American Literature
2020, Vol. 12 No. 09
Poststructuralism and Female Identity in Sylvia Plath's Ariel
By Lillian G. Robles
Sylvia Plath’s posthumously published collection of poetry, Ariel, is perhaps best defined by the vivid imagery that delves deep into Plath’s psyche. Throughout the collection, Plath explores dimensions of herself: her past, present,... Read Article »
Poststructuralism Identity Sylvia Plath Poetry American Literature
Shakespeare
2020, Vol. 12 No. 09
The Politics of the Spectacular and the Poetics of the Specular in William Shakespeare's Richard II
By Mohamed Anis Ferchichi
When finally, … Richard dashes the mirror to the ground, there shatters not only Richard’s past and present, but every aspect of a super-world … The features as reflected by the looking glass betray that he is stripped of &hellip... Read Article »
Shakespeare Richard II Elizabethan Plays Literary History Tudor England
Shakespeare
2020, Vol. 12 No. 09
Chaos and Dissimulation in Ian McEwan's Modern Retelling of Hamlet
By Margherita Codurelli
This paper analyses Ian McEwan’s reuse of Shakespeare’s material in his retelling of Hamlet from the unusual point of view of an unborn child. By considering its plot, characters, setting and main issues, McEwan’s novel Nutshell... Read Article »
Ian McEwan Shakespeare Hamlet Chaos Murder Revenge
Existentialism
2020, Vol. 12 No. 09
Ergodic Textuality in Egan and Ozeki: The Rhetorical Dialogism of Time Being
By Taylor G. Hein
Human beings decided that time is linear. We continually assert that is made up of the past, present, and future, proceeding infinitely and mercilessly in an exclusively forward motion. Thus, our lives and our relationships are experienced linearly... Read Article »
Rhetoric Fiction Philosophy Existentialism Time Intersubjectivity
Gender Dynamics
2020, Vol. 12 No. 02
Gender Dynamics in The Sheik as Novel and as Film Adaptation
By Sophie Hammond
The 1921 Hollywood film The Sheik tells the story of Lady Diana Mayo, a spirited English peeress who, on a trip to the French Sahara, is kidnapped by and eventually falls in love with the Arab sheik Ahmed Ben Hassan. The film made Rudolph Valentino... Read Article »
Film Studies Colonialism Feminism Racism Gender Roles Stereotypes
English Literature
2020, Vol. 12 No. 02
The Everyday as Empowering: Violence and Suburban Monotony in the Interwar Writing of George Orwell
By Florence Ward
In the opening of J. M. Richards’s post-war account of suburbia, The Castles on the Ground, the author's commentary is unusually sympathetic to a phenomenon that throughout the twentieth-century had either been critically neglected or judged... Read Article »
George Orwell English Literature Suburbia Interwar Period World War II Suburbia Urban Modernism
American Literature
2019, Vol. 11 No. 10
Trauma and Silence in No-No Boy: An Interdisciplinary Reading
By Yuxin Zheng
Depicting the rugged reintegration of Ichiro Yamada, a no-no boy imprisoned during WWII, Japanese American author John Okada presents a traumatized and conflicted Japanese American community during the mid-1940s in his novel No-No Boy (1957). Applying... Read Article »
American History American Literature Trauma PTSD Japanese Americans Coping
Historical Fiction
2019, Vol. 11 No. 04
The Military Masculine: Storytelling and Role-playing in Phil Klay's Stories of War
By William R. Fuller
This paper explores the conflict between hegemonic and new masculinity in Phil Klay’s Redeployment, illustrating the changing conception of gender roles and masculinity in storytelling about war. This paper juxtaposes traditional conceptions... Read Article »
Historical Fiction Masculinity Trauma Storytelling Role-playing War Iraq War Soldier
Scottish Literature
2019, Vol. 11 No. 02
The Search for Nationhood in Older Scots Literature: A Study of The Flyting of Dunbar and Kennedy and The Tale of Ralph the Collier
By Glenn A. Mills
The corpus of Older Scots literature is hyper-attentive to the themes and issues surrounding nationhood and sovereignty. Authors of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries often espoused and exploited the national pride of the Scottish people, producing... Read Article »
Scottish Literature Alliterative Romance Nationhood Anglo-Scottish Relations Ethnic Conflict
American Literature
2019, Vol. 11 No. 01
The Captain's Compromise: Political Symbolism in Herman Melville's Benito Cereno
By Brian Chen
Until the outbreak of civil war, the United States would continually try and fail to subdue the existential threat of slavery, with each attempt exacerbating the sectional tensions between slave and free states. In 1830, Massachusetts Senator Daniel... Read Article »
English Literature American History American Slavery Herman Melville American Civil War
Postmodern Literature
2019, Vol. 11 No. 01
The 'Versipel' Charles Kinbote in Vladimir Nabokov's Pale Fire
By Brenda S. Tolian
Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov is a masterpiece of literature that seems to transform into a remarkably personal experience for anyone who approaches the text. The book reads in many ways like a game full of mysteries and innuendos and has in its... Read Article »
Vladimir Nabokov Pale Fire Sexuality Dualism Postmodern Literature Russian Literature
English Literature
2019, Vol. 11 No. 01
Class, Gender and the Anxieties of Meritocracy in Jacobean England
By Joshua B. Black
The staged plays of the early Jacobean period are valuable textual products for the literary critic, the cultural researcher and the historian alike. These plays are significant containers of knowledge about the mutually reinforcing social and political... Read Article »
Social Class Gender Roles Political Culture John Webster Jacobean Literature
 
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