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قراءة المزيدحول Arts / Fl 3 / Off 123

Between Two Episodes of an Eastern Tale: Charlotte Bronte as a Self-conscious Artist

This article is a reaction against Charlotte Bronte’s criticism that reads her work either within a biographical context or a reactionary objective framework. The article examines the author’s borrowing of a certain episode in an Eastern tale for her novel Villette and claims Bronte as a self-conscious artist. She works in deliberate awareness of self, text and reader.

قراءة المزيدحول Between Two Episodes of an Eastern Tale: Charlotte Bronte as a Self-conscious Artist

The Meaning of the Orient in Keats's Consciousness

This study discovers more than one Orient in Keats’s consciousness, a historical, fictional, and political one. The variety is a direct result of Keats’s exposure to different sources of knowledge about that world. The amalgamation of the three Oriental realms in Keats’s mind allows fictional elements to overshadow historical knowledge. A geographically fluid Orient in which Greece is included emerges in Keats’s poetry. This concept challenges the dominant view of ancient Greece as the source of Western civilization.

قراءة المزيدحول The Meaning of the Orient in Keats's Consciousness

The Romanticist's Sublimation in Contemporary Fiction: A Reading of Baxter's 'The Cliff.

This paper investigates the revival of the superhuman element in contemporary fiction. It analyzes a postmodern magic-realist story called “The Cliff” and compares it with some English Romantic poems. It finds that magic-realism can be, at times, a parody of the Romantic poet’s sublimation into Nature.

قراءة المزيدحول The Romanticist's Sublimation in Contemporary Fiction: A Reading of Baxter's 'The Cliff.

Keats's Relationship with the Orient: Early Ambivalence and Developing Control

This study traces Keats’s relationship with the Orient from his first entanglement with it till his last. Such relationship evolves according to changes in Keats’s epistemology. During his empirical stage, Keats’s response to the Orient was inhibited. The shift to a transcendental and imaginative perception of the world increased his literary dependence on the Orient.

قراءة المزيدحول Keats's Relationship with the Orient: Early Ambivalence and Developing Control

The Detached Involvement: A Reading of The Awkward Age

This paper explores Henry James’ conflict between subjective involvement in his literary text and objective detachment from its elements. His failure in drama has induced him to aspire for literary objectivity. But his subjective epistemology perpetuates the importance of human consciousness in receiving experience and reproducing it in art. His short story “The Alter of the Dead” embodies this conflict. His novel The Awkward Age resolves it.