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From:Korean Studies (Vol. 33) Peer-ReviewedThis article focuses on how images of Hwang Chin-i, one of the most fascinating characters in Korean literature and media, have evolved over time as well as how she could have maintained her position as a representative...
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From:Fu Jen Studies: Literature & Linguistics (Vol. 39) Peer-ReviewedHistorically, an interest in Shakespeare's characters came along with an interest in the Bard himself. This interest in his craft of dramatic characterization emerged as a dominant mode of criticism, character...
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From:Conradiana (Vol. 33, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedPerhaps of all Conrad's works of fiction, Heart of Darkness (1899) is the bloodiest in terms of the images of violence and death. Even before his encounter with Kurtz in the Inner Station, where he witnesses the...
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From:Renaissance Quarterly (Vol. 54, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedIn book 1 of Castiglinoe's Il libro del cortegiano Lodovico da Canossa's sprezzatura -- embodied in his pretended inability to teach us how to be perfect courtiers -- is usually seen as consonant with the treatise's...
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From:Sartre Studies International: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Existentialism and Contemporary Culture (Vol. 7, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThose who know Sartre's work and those who, after all the recent publicity, have yielded to the temptation to take down from their bookshelves the works of "the little man," as some close friends called him, will...
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From:Papers on Language & Literature (Vol. 37, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBorder theory, though mainly concerned with postcolonial and avant-garde literature, can invigorate the reading of older canonical texts written by the staunchest Tories of English Literature. As an emerging...
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From:Contemporary Review (Vol. 280, Issue 1634)EASTERN European history text books have been rewritten more often than the long-suffering schoolchildren of the region care to remember. National heroes and despised bogeymen have been made to switch roles in the...
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From:Shakespeare Newsletter (Vol. 52, Issue 1)Establishing a text for Henry IV, Part Two is difficult to do. Its editorial cruxes are among the most notorious in the canon. There are two (arguably three) different versions of the play, but for various reasons none...
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From:Prairie Schooner (Vol. 76, Issue 2)Nightshade Press For occupants of this accelerated world harnessed by technology and other modern contrivances, how easy it is to fall under the spell of a narrator who seems, herself, not fully domesticated. In her...
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From:European Judaism (Vol. 35, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThose of you who were at Finchley Reform Synagogue on Rosh Hashanah may remember those lines, which Rabbi Professor Magonet used as the epigraph to his sermon. He was kind enough to send me a copy of the sermon, which...
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From:Extrapolation (Vol. 43, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedSo thoroughly has The Adventures of Pinocchio permeated our culture that Carl Sagan selects for inclusion among Ellie Arroway's formative childhood memories an incident from Collodi's novel that had undoubtedly stuck...
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From:Persuasions: The Jane Austen Journal (Vol. 22)Kerrie Savage, a Ph.D. student at Arizona State University, where she specializes in eighteenth-century studies and textual editing, teaches in the English Department. She lives in Peoria, AZ with her very supportive...
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From:Texas Studies in Literature and Language (Vol. 40, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedWhen Henry James returned to America in 1881 and 1882, he had been living abroad for six years and had already decided that the move would be permanent. Nevertheless, these visits, marked by the unexpected, sequential...
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From:Notes and Queries (Vol. 40, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThe audience's correct response to the incestuous lovers in John Ford's 'Tis Pity She's a Whore' has been a problem for critics who cannot decide whether the audience should sympathize with them or not. However, the...
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From:Texas Studies in Literature and Language (Vol. 39, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedHermeneutics and historical interpretation are intertwining activities, for, in a strict sense, hermeneutics asks what are the grounds for textual exegesis, especially of ancient texts whose worldview may be distant...
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From:World Literature Today (Vol. 91, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedThe impact of British literature on India was profound, altering the poetry, fiction, and drama of the many cultures and languages unified by the empire, and it has lingered. Victorian attitudes in public entertainment...
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From:Texas Studies in Literature and Language (Vol. 39, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedThroughout the wretched summer of 1973, while the Watergate scandal raged, Elizabeth Hardwick was in the limelight as the publicly abandoned wife of the man often touted as America's foremost poet. "I hate the glossary,...
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From:World Literature Today (Vol. 85, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedYou can hardly open certain German or French business thrillers without a Luxembourgish laundry ticket falling off the pages. And for sure: it will not return your Burberry, but a silver Zero Halliburton attaché with...
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From:Asian Theatre Journal (Vol. 19, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedHirata Oriza's Tokyo Notes, which has had some forty productions since it won the thirty-ninth Kishida Kunio Award, Japan's highest prize for new drama, in 1995, toured North America in the fall of 2000. In its focus on...
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From:Antipodes (Vol. 13, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThe relationship between detective fiction and psychoanalysis has been explored at length and repeatedly, particularly insofar as a "detective story reorders our perception of the past through language" (Hutter 231), in...