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Daisy Miller’s Elimination: A Post-Colonial Social Darwinist Theory
Full text linkThis essay historicizes and investigates social Darwinism and social eugenics asthey appear in Henry James’s Daisy Miller, using postcolonial theories such as mimicry,imperialistic discourse, and reverse diaspora. Henry James's personal travel writings, whichcontain an element of xenophobic anxiety, are also discussed. In addition, the essay arguesthat Daisy is extracted suddenly from the text on two levels: The first level is located withinthe fictive narration; i.e., she is not socially desirable by the colonialist EuropeanizedAmericans with whom she encounters in Europe. The second level exists within the reality ofHenry James’s fears of the “other” and within the context of the historical time period inwhich the text was written
Grace for Measure: Shakespeare and the Bible
Full text linkThis article examines the connection between Shakespeare and the Bibleregarding Christian salvation focusing on one of the so-called Shakespeare’s problem plays,namely Measure for Measure. Firstly, the readers are introduced to the plot and sources ofthe play, followed by an explanation setting forth the opposition between two systems ofexpiation seen in Christian theology: divine grace, the system ascribed to Protestants, andsalvation by works, traditionally associated to Catholicism. This theoretical account is appliedto Measure for Measure in order to raise awareness of the triumph of God’s mercy at the endof the story. However, this fact does not prove Shakespeare’s Protestantism. Rather, it canbe considered as an attempt to lay out the political and religious controversies of the time
Nelson Mandela: From ‘I’m prepared to die’ to ‘Free at last’. A linguistic analysis
Full text linkThe name Nelson Mandela is associated to concepts such as peace, harmony, andthe fight against apartheid. However, there are more unknown things and aspects about thisfigure; for example, his membership to the terrorist organisation Umkhonto we Sizwe (Spearof the Nation).and his violent acts. This paper analysis some linguistic changes in hisdiscourse, related to his shifting ideology in the context of his life evolution. I focus on two ofhis speeches: “I’m prepared to die”, a judicial declaration delivered in the Rivonia Trial whereNelson Mandela and others were convicted of terrorism. The second corresponds to NelsonMandela’s inaugural address in 1994 when he was proclaimed President of South Africa.There are great differences between the two and this will be shown in the use of differentlinguistic strategies
Like Consort to Thyself Canst no Where Find: Gender Politics and the Rhetoric of Negation in John Milton’s Paradise Lost
Full text linkThe social value of women during the Renaissance limited their intellectual interests tomarriage and obedience to their partner. When a woman did not follow this pattern, she wasconsidered a spinster. Women who showed intellectual inclinations in any way usually remainedunmarried and part of a social group considered threating to society. In many cases they wereaccused of witchcraft and of being demon worshipers. This article deals with the Biblical figure ofEve, a woman created perfect, in similarity to the creator, but who does not follow the social norm,thus being the cause of what is known as the human Fall from divine Grace. In particular, I look atJohn Milton’s Paradise Lost where Eve stands as an allegorical figure that represents all women
Feminism in Virginia Woolf essays: A Room of One’s Own and Three Guineas
Full text linkThis work aims to raise awareness about the subjugation that women had toendure during the nineteenth century and even nowadays. The main purpose of this work isto show how women fail to find their identity in a patriarchal world, being frustrated andhaving their own personal desires restrained, and how everything in our patriarchal societyhas collaborated to the aggravation of this identity crisis of women. It will also explore howthis subjugation is analyzed in the literature of women writers, particularly in the works ofthe well-known feminist figure Virginia Woolf. The chosen works are A Room of One’s Ownand Three Guineas. The last part will focus on analyzing how women can liberate from thesepatriarchal ideas that are rooted on their minds and how they can finally overcome genderinequality. This part will consider the important influence that women writers can have onother women, by giving voice to important feminist ideas through writing
“Modern Myths: The Function of Myth in Ulysses and Cien años de soledad”
Full text linkThis paper seeks to explore the complex role that myth plays in James Joyce’s Ulysses and Gabriel García Márquez’s Cien años de soledad. It begins by defining myth and narrative, the terms T.S. Eliot uses in his review of Ulysses as modes of narration, before exploring the tensions that emerge between these modes. A close analysis of two episodes in each novel demonstrates the uses to which each author puts myth and explores the implications of myth as a distinct mode to the narrative one. It progresses to examine the responses to myth both from the author and the reader’s perspective, relocating the debate to a linguistic setting. The political value of myth is explored, as a way for each author to negotiate particular colonial and post-colonial relationships to literature, and indeed, in the case of García Márquez, to the other author. The final part of the paper examines the repercussions of the mythical/narrative tension for modern interpretations of reality, chiefly through literary means. As a conclusion, the paper suggests that myth as a mode produces a productive tension when forced to coexist with the narrative mode traditionally associated with the novel
Buddhism in Allen Ginsberg’s Poetry. A Reaction towards Consumerism
No full textThis essay is an analysis of Allen Ginsberg´s poetry in relation to Buddhism as a reaction towards the world of consumerism. The main point of this study is to see the contrast between the two discourses that are joined in Ginsberg’s poetical work: the Western and the Eastern, analysing Buddhist philosophy as a way of understanding some of Ginsberg’s poems. To explore this, the following poems will be analysed: “Angkor Wat”, “The Change: Kyoto-Tokyo Express”, “Thoughts Sitting Breathing” and “Gospel Noble Truths”, which can be found in Allen Ginsberg’s Collected Poems 1947-1980
On Heroes and Antiheroes: Visions of Resistance and Victorian Ethos Revisited
No full textThe aim of this project is to analyze the antagonist of H. Rider Haggard’s She: A History of Adventure, Ayesha, and the main character in Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Sign of the Four, Sherlock Holmes, to characterize them as anti-heroes, by conflating them with the features of the Byronic hero archetype and with Nietzsche’s Übermensch, examining if a relation can be established between these three figures. To that purpose, the work’s first section outlines the figure of the hero and its conceptualization in Victorian England through the prism of Thomas Carlyle’s seminal text, On Heroes. The influence of this work transformed the dichotomy protagonist-antagonist into the clash between the socially minded Carlylean hero and the individualistic Byronic hero/villain; a situation that changed drastically with Decadentism and its admiration for the more nuanced figures of the anti-hero and the Übermensch, both studied in the subsequent sections of the work