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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…

There is clear evidence that Heat island has changed cities microclimate from their
original and it has led to increased overheating risk, longer summer periods and
higher energy consumption for cooling. Understanding of the relation between…

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). …

The European Union was set up with the purpose of ending the wars between
neighbours, which culminated in the Second World War. Because of the political and
economic situations, the six founders decided to expand the community. In the
beginning,…

Americans’ attitudes toward immigrants can be described as ambivalent. While some
attitudes toward immigrants have been antagonistic, Americans have also espoused beliefs
that the United States is a nation of immigrants and that cultural…

Coal mining adversely affects the eco-system as a whole. On the unstable earth; the unresting
mankind constantly uses a variety of resources for their daily lives. Coal is recognized to
have been the main source of energy in India for many decades…

Occupy Central was a 79-day experiment in urban identity. Occupy—the Umbrella
Revolution of 2014—rearranged space on the streets of Hong Kong. This rearranging
suggests a geography of presence. Such a geography will explain how spaces of…

As we know, one important component of the methodology of deconstruction involves
analyzing the logic of binary oppositions, particularly those binaries wielding great cultural
and ideological influence, such as presence/absence, speech/writing,…

An increasing number of international students, whose teaching and learning practices are very
different from that of the UK, is studying in the U.K. This study poses the question of whether
Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) is the most optimum…

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…