The naming convention in English-speaking countries(e.g.,USA and UK),and several others in the Western culture,where women traditionally have adopted their husbands’surnames,is compared with the naming convention in ...
It is a fact of history that the African continent had experienced enslavement and colonialism which,unfortunately,led to the uprootedness of the being of the African.Consequently,one of the great tasks which faced th...
Henry James has successfully portrayed many innocent American girls,who undergo a lot in the cultural shock between America and Europe.And Daisy Miller is the only one,whose innocence and natural behaviours make her d...
This paper focuses the question: What does it mean to be a traveller rather than a tourist? The term “tourism” ismostlyused in impersonal commercial language but “travel” often implies the personal, picaresque s...
In this paper, I will discuss Chinese adaptations of A Doll's House as a point of departure to see how problems arise when the self and the behaviour of a person is defined in legal terms at the expense of moral moti...
In the philosophy of mind, the essential qualities of self and selfhood have been discussed widely. According to Zahavi (2015, 149), "the notion of an experiential self is the precondition of any plausible account ...
"The Jilting of Granny Weatherall" is a short story by Katherine Anne Porter representing her views of southern women’s self-consciousness in the male-dominated world.On the one hand, Granny Weatherall stands for a t...
Applying feminist theory,this thesis aims at dissecting the process of the protagonist Celie in Alice Walker's The Color Purple,her pursuit of woman subjective selfhood through the perspective of sisterhood.It discuss...
Politeness, as a linguistic phenomenon, pervades almost all the civilized social-cultures and languages, which works as a sort of softening agent to smoothen the course of communication. As people from different cultu...
In her autobiography,Fifth Chinese Daughter,Jade Snow Wong reinvents her bicultural selfhood by integrating traditional Chinese values and American values.Confucianism helps Jade Snow Wong achieve balance between her ...