“Tragedy”and“modernity”are normally viewed as two discrete concepts,one related to literature and the other to social theory,but they were coupled into two different cause/effect relationships in the early and mid...
By the Bog of Cats… is the representative work of Irish playwright Marina Carr. Carr tells a story of abandonment and revenge in Ireland at the end of the 20th century, based on the ancient Greek tragedy Medea. By th...
The tragic features of V.S.Naipaul’s short story collection Miguel Street are more typical in the female characters.This paper attempts to analyze the typical female tragic characters in the book.Starting from their ...
Polish composer Chopin’s“Andante Spianato Et Grand Polonaise Brillante,Op.22”,composed in the 19th century,has distinctive features from compositional techniques to acoustic characteristics,and has very unique musi...
Philip Roth has often been accused of misogyny.A close and unbiased reading of Roth’s American Pastoral,however,reveals that beneath its surface patriarchal narrative discourse simmers an undercurrent of a female sub...
As the spokesman of the Jazz Age, F.Scott.Fitzgerald revealed the disillusionment of the American Dream in his master-piece The Great Gatsby under the background of the 1920 s, or the Jazz Age.In the novel, the protag...
During the Zhenguan Period(AD 627-649)ofthe Tang Dynasty(AD 618-907),LiYuanying(AD 628-684),younger brother of Emperor Taizong of Tang(reign:AD 627-650),was invested with full uthority at Tengzhou,Shandong Province:he...
Hemingway,a famous American novelist in the 20th century,often gives us tragic characters who are doomed and fight for life.The creation of these characters mostly comes from his personal experience and social environ...
The role of madness has been an unexcavated part in studies of Foucault on transgression,especially with literary studies.This paper considers madness as the presence of transgression,and gives an account of madness f...