Literature and Environment: An Ecocritical Approach to Haifaa Al-Sanoussi's Departure of the Sea (Abdulhamid Alansary, Dept., of English Language and Literature, Faculty of Arts, Sohag University) ABSTRACT This research paper tries to explain the desire to return to pure nature through the analysis of a work of art ecocritically, namely Haifaa Al-Sanoussi's Departure of the Sea. It also attempts to show how the relationship between man and nature, which had been previously harmonized, has changed
Harlem Renaissance on African American Literature. Harlem Renaissance was an African American cultural movement of the 1920s and early 1930s that was centered in the Harlem neighborhood of New York City. Harlem Renaissance is the name given to the time from the end of World War I and through the middle of the 1930s depression. It was known then as the “New Negro Movement”, named after an anthology, titled The New Negro, of important African Americans works, published by philosopher Alain Locke
teacher of the 20th century. He was an American literary critic and is popularly known for his works on Romanticism. One of his ground breaking work is The Mirror and the Lamp: romantic theory and critical traditions where he celebrated the Romantics and draws on the influence of the author’s life and
Literature is the mirror of world that has no end, but it is the reflection of human life. Literature is the broadest sense of writing. It is the writing of art form with intellectual value. Literature represents a language of a people, culture and tradition. Literature is more important than a historical or a cultural artifact. Literature introduces people to new worlds of experience. Literature is the term derived from Latin word, “literature/litterautra”, which means ‘writing formed with
Chapter I THE PROBLEM Introduction African literature has tended to reflect the cultural and political phases of the continent because African fiction has been very much influenced by culture and politics. Beginning from the colonial days, African fiction spans the succession of cultural clashes and political crises which have beset the continent. For the countries in Africa, the experience of colonialism plays an important role in the process of understanding their history. Postcolonial studies
As a key text of its field, Skin Shows: Gothic Horror and the Technology of Monsters by Dr. Judith Halberstam, approaches the topic of monstrosity as a construction of the body through a range of discourses in the evolution of Gothic culture from literature of the early nineteenth century to modern film. A contribution to the field, positioned alongside works from Chris Baldick (In Frankenstein’s Shadow: Myth Monstrosity and Nineteenth-Century Writing, 1987) and Kelly Hurley (The Gothic Body: Sexuality
through stress or trials to live the way they want. Everything is 'perfect'. The Savage character seems to feel this is wrong and that you should be able to feel unhappy and toil in order to feel alive. I will be identifying literary elements and techniques of this excerpt for this essay. There are two different types of conflict in this excerpt, Man vs. Society and Man vs. Nature. The plot seems to be whether or not humans should have to work hard in order to be comfortable and if every one is too comfortable
after the Father of His Country, George Washington. He is known as the father of American Literature. He “legitimated the writer as writer, someone distinct from other occupations, and he vindicated the artwork as just that, a work of art and not a vehicle for moral or civic instruction” (Gilmore 661-662). He was the American writer who made authorship profitable. "If the American public wish to have literature of their own," he declared, "they must consent to pay for the support of authors" (669)
Throughout the years, the evolution of literature and the changes to which this has led can serve as a great example to realise that there is not a specific way of writing. On the contrary, the way in which a literary work is written says a lot about it. If we go back to the Victorian period, one of the elements which did not go unnoticed in gothic literature was the narrative structure and the different techniques the authors used to apply to it. According to the literature of that time, it could be said
Works on the Fiction Criticism of F.R. Leavis K.Eswara Reddy Asst.professor in English K.S.R.M College of Engineering Kadapa – 516003 A.P, INDIA K.Vijaya Bhaskar Reddy Asst.professor in English K.S.R.M College of Engineering Kadapa – 516003 A.P, INDIA Abstract We find the earliest criticism on the fiction criticism of F.R. Leavis in 1958 in George Steiner’s Language and Silence. George Steiner regards Leavis as a better critic of fiction than of poetry. According to him Leavis admitted