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This essay examines the ways in which Henry used poetics and performances to
establish the iconography of his court and the relevance, within this context, of
Henry’s specific choice of Katherine as queen to preside over his chivalric…

This paper represents an attempt to consider how artists in general—and Japanese post-war
novelists in particular—deal with traumatic experience and how this process is reflected in
their subsequent literary texts. More specifically, it will…

The concept of “world literature” can be viewed as insisting on returning to reading a text
without the mechanical use of literary theory. This means, as Zhang Longxi notes, referring to
Kermode, “tak[ing] whatever theoretical help you…

America has long and vigorously been taken up with the issue of cultural identity, the one and
the many. Its literary authorship, Puritans to Postmoderns, has been no less so engaged. Who
gets to say what writing best speaks for the culture? Has…

Mass media and social media shape public perceptions, and in turn, this brings about
an increasing level of public awareness and citizen participation in the flow of news
and information. The impact of Japan’s recent economic policy shift,…

This paper’s title is inspired by Guttmann’s 2004 book From Ritual To Record. It
examines the remedial and ritual role of cinema in artist film Weimar Villa (Bernd Behr,
2010) and critically acclaimed Chinese film 24 City (Zia Zhang-ke, 2008). …

Anne Tyler (born 1941) is one of the ingenious twentieth – century American writers.
Classified by critics as a Southern writer, Tyler focuses on modern families and their
distinctive relationships. She writes with wit and insight about runaway…

Jhumpa Lahiri was able to share with the world her first book, a collection of nine
stories, Interpreter of Maladies, published in 1999. Brought up in America as well as
her Indian heritage make her a genuinely interpreter of themes such as,…

The purpose of this research was to study the effect of teaching cooperative education
for students in Rajamangala University of Technology Lanna Chiang Rai (RMUTL).
The research population was 62 students from Division of Electrical Engineering…

An intense interest in national identity is a paradoxical but an utterly human reaction
to globalization.

The paper considers the role of national literature in shaping and preserving national
identity with Russian classical literature as a…