Negation, Selection and Substitution: Charlotte Bronte’s Feminist Poetics

This study examines an early dramatic monologue by Charlotte Bronte and finds that Bronte is a contemporary of Robert Browning and has precedence over Alfred Tennyson. She also predates Victorian women poets in use of the form.

Space versus Place in Rushdie’s Satanic Verses

Salman Rushdie’s novel The Satanic Verses is a much contested piece of work. Its politics dichotomized responses into either condemnatory or supportive categories. In some forms of defense of its content, critics employed the principle of artistic necessity to explain the book’s transgression against Islamic ideology. This paper intends to neither defend nor condemn but rather to read the work through a postcolonial critical perspective and expose its limitations and inherent contradictions.

Postmodernism in Second, Third and Fourth World Literatures: Postcolonial Literary Theory

This article is a skeletal delineation of postcolonial theory. It highlights an important aspect of the theory that remains scattered among theorist in the field which is the correspondence of postcolonial writings to four cultural locations or worlds.

Authenticity versus Diversity in The Rock

The Rock and Other Poems is a collection of poems by a Saudi scholar of English literature, Ezzat Khattab. It is a specimen of what is known as World Literature in English that differs from the corpus of Anglo-centric writings. This article is a postcolonial reading of some of the poems in the book. It views them as a curiously complex product that challenges English literature yet is deeply influenced by it.

Life Transfigured into Art: A Critical Review of The Rock and Other Poems

This is a review of The Rock and Other Poems on its first publication. The book is a richly resourceful and highly sophisticated collection of poems by a Saudi scholar of English literature, Ezzat Khattab. It contains short lyrical poems arranged in five sections. The poems reflect the scholarly interests of its author. The review highlights affinities between the poems and some English poetic traditions that lie at the background of its author’s education and vocation.

Baxter's First Person Narrator: Between Mimetic Representation and Creative Expression

This study explores the fictional work of a contemporary American writer, Charles Baxter, in different stages of its evolution with special emphasis on point of view. It highlights his strife for mimetic accuracy and objectivity during the early stages of his career especially in his first person narratives. The study also points out the gradual shift in commitment toward a concept of fiction as a personal and subjective form of expression.

A Departure and a Return: Back to Self-expression

This article investigates the literary phenomenon of self-referentiality in a contemporary American writer, Charles Baxter.  The author makes a personal appearance in a presumably objective tale of description and representation. Analysis finds the author’s desire to comment on his own act of narration and to disclose its contradictions and limitations to the reader a motivating force behind the move.

Fate, Will and the Balance of Forces: A Theological Reading of Robert Browning's Poem 'Life in a Love'

This paper is a theological reading of a love poem by Robert Browning. The poem’s speaker addresses a reluctant beloved who refuses to accept his suit. Her rejection gives him power and determination and endows his life with meaning. The article places such empowerment in a religious context. It claims that Browning’s faith strikes a fine balance between predestination and human will, between preordained fate and freedom of choice.
    

 

Recollections of The Arabian Nights and Recollections of Keats's 'Ode to a Nightingale'

The object of this reading of Tennyson’s poem “Recollections of the Arabian Nights” is to retrieve the poem from misplacement in the Romantic tradition evident in several critical assumptions that revolve around it. One assumption is treating the piece as an echo of Keats’s “Ode to a Nightingale.” The current study asserts that Tennyson does not experience Romantic transcendence into Nature but rather recollects Keats’s act of sublimation. His interest is a humanistic one in which he recollects the figure of Haroun Alraschid as a model human being.

Timelessness in a Reversed Narrative Act: The Quest for Eternity in Baxter's First Light

This article attempts to explain a reversed narrative act in a postmodern novel, First Light, by a contemporary American writer, Charles Baxter.  The act suggests a secular quest of immortality. It is echoed in the novel by the characters’ perpetual involvement in acts of memory that revive their personal past and create a sense of temporal  permanence.

 

الصفحات

اشترك ب KSU Faculty آر.إس.إس