This book investigates both the common psychological and cultural points of identity crisis in Cormac McCarthy's Border Trilogy that comprised All the Pretty Horses (1992), The Crossing (1994), and Cities Of the Plain (1998). The Trilogy... more
This descriptive study examines how contemporary American literary texts intertwine neuroscience, psychiatry, economics, and cultural studies to explore cognitive, emotional, socioeconomic, and cultural dimensions of human consciousness.... more
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. Bentley's section on Chesnutt (in the chapter 'Black Bohemia and the African American Novel') situates his critique ofrealism within his awareness of the power of spectacle. While her focus... more
Al autor de este libro, a pesar de su juventud, no se le puede reputar de inexperto o principiante cuando se trata de investigaciones sobre literatura comparada, literatura estadounidense u otras obras americanas de la Edad Moderna o... more
Cormac McCarthys første mesterverk: Man kan mene hva man vil om McCarthys moral, men hans egalitære portrett av hjemløse har en sterk etisk dimensjon.
Resumen El presente artículo estudia la función teratológica que adquieren ciertos personajes, motivos o acciones en los relatos de Flannery O'Connor. Los elementos grotescos tienen el efecto traumático de un golpe dado con violencia que... more
Long recognized as one of America's foremost men of letters, Robert Penn Warren continues to dazzle us with his many-sided genius. In the haunting images of his poetry, the narrative power of his fiction, the revealing insights of his... more
Rising cases of mosquito-borne diseases present a significant health risk globally. prompting the need for effective, environmentally friendly alternatives to chemical insecticides. Thus, this study aims to investigate if oregano has the... more
En 1959 y 1963, Flannery O'Connor ofreció al mundo dos aproximaciones extremadamente valiosas a la filosofía zen y sus métodos de meditación, a través de dos reseñas que ensalzaban los valores de escuela tradicional oriental para con el... more
A Streetcar Named Desire and The American Dream differ stylistically and generationally, both plays confront the erosion of American cultural ideals through language, performance, and social practice. Williams presents a culture in... more
Likewise, I must thank my MA thesis advisor at the University of Alabama, Prof. Nirmala Erevelles, who continues to inspire me toward vibrant academic scholarship. The lessons here at the University of Minnesota, and in the Twin Cities in... more
Likewise, I must thank my MA thesis advisor at the University of Alabama, Prof. Nirmala Erevelles, who continues to inspire me toward vibrant academic scholarship. The lessons here at the University of Minnesota, and in the Twin Cities in... more
This paper explores the influence of post-Civil War Southern decline on the short fiction of William Faulkner, particularly in “A Rose for Emily” and “Barn Burning.” It argues that Faulkner, shaped by his aristocratic Southern heritage,... more
This essay explores the dreamlike quality of William Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily" through psychoanalytic criticism, specifically Freudian concepts of displacement and condensation. The story's non-chronological timeline, symbolism, and... more
Literary works have been interpreted differently depending on the interpreter's mindset and outlook. This study has launched an attempt to interpret the representation of the "Mocking Bird" in To Kill a Mocking Bird. Initially, a total... more
This article focuses on the portrayal of women, especially mothers, in the works of Southern gothic authors Anne Rice, Poppy Z. Brite, and Charlaine Harris. The works of Rice and Brite imagine the South as a white, male-coded space.... more
This sentence is often cited as one of the longest in literature and serves as a prime example of Faulkner's distinctive writing style.
Cuando Trilling pregunta en su ensayo ¿Qué es lo heroico? ¿Qué es un héroe? Dice que una buena respuesta es la que Robert Warshow da en su libro sobre los Western en el cine: “Un héroe es alguien que parece un héroe.” Y continúa diciendo:... more
Cuando Trilling pregunta en su ensayo ¿Qué es lo heroico? ¿Qué es un héroe? Dice que una buena respuesta es la que Robert Warshow da en su libro sobre los Western en el cine: “Un héroe es alguien que parece un héroe.” Y continúa diciendo:... more
That overall, as I read it, this is a favorable review of Misha Green’s LOVECRAFT COUNTRY (LCC) by staff writer and television critic Robert Lloyd of the L.A.Times, still, in the end, does not rescue it; yet it is a review that, if you... more
Uno de los principales aspectos de la más reciente crítica flanneriana es la aproximación a la interseccionalidad de su producción artística. A tal efecto, el legado cultural de la escritora se ha abordado desde una multiplicidad de... more
The cause of the division between the antebellum North and the South and the American Civil War is often deemed to the division around abolition, but conventional analyses does not examine the origin of the diverging values in the Union... more
In William Faulkner’s Absalom, Absalom!, history recurs within opening and closing and variously attributing quotations. Quentin Compson’s and his roommate Shreve McCannon’s palimpsestic tale of Thomas Sutpen accomplishes more than a... more
This article, “At Play in the Fields of the War: Southern Literature, Memorial Art,” concerns Civil War narrative as written by those that lived it and as revised by the next generation. Special emphasis is on the classic American Civil... more
The goal of this dissertation was to examine the role of the extracellular matrix (ECM) in muscle soreness. Study 1 examined how the disruption of the ECM from a minor surgery (e.g. muscle biopsy) affected muscle soreness. Study 1 showed... more
This article offers an in-depth examination of Randall Kenan’s A Visitation of Spirits, contextualizing its narrative within the frameworks of Queer theory and African American cultural studies. Set against the backdrop of a rural North... more
O presente artigo busca investigar os traços de uma discursividade gótica em S. Bernardo (1934), de Graciliano Ramos. A análise se dá a partir do levantamento dos elementos convencionais da tradição gótica presentes no romance — tais como... more
Scholarship on literature from the southern region of the United States often compares the epistemological and ontological existentialism in the works of William Faulkner and Cormac McCarthy. Proponents of this view, like Robert Rudnicki,... more
Dai romanzi appalachiani a quelli western, dai testi teatrali alle sceneggiature, fino al misterioso dittico finale di "Il passeggero" e "Stella Maris", quella di Cormac McCarthy è ormai un classico della letteratura americana... more
Анализа готских мотива у прози Фленери О'Конор може нам пружити важне увиде у кључне особености О'Конорине поетике. Потврђивање ове тезе одвија се у неколико праваца. У првом дијелу рада, након Увода, представљамо концизну културну... more
According to biographer Ralph Wood, O’Connor once quipped that if she were not Roman Catholic, “she would join a Pentecostal Holiness church” (30). Actual Pentecostals, however, do not populate her imaginary as much as one would assume.... more
The story 'A Good Man is Hard to Find" by Flannery O'Connor was published in the year of 1953, The story is a narrative text that shows the themes of grace, purpose, decision, and humanity's inherent flaws. The story starts on a family... more
Susan Scott Parrish posits the novel as a genre uniquely capable of communicating the inherently social and complex risks of disaster. Focusing on London’s bubonic plague of 1665 and Hurricane Katrina in Mississippi... more
The motto of researching in literature is to try to bring a harmony in the society. Where social imbalance increases, need for literary works sustains in that community. Flannery O'Connor is a writer who stressed on faith and literature... more
Eudora Welty's unconventional stories have an unquestionable place in the tradition of Southern literature comprised of many notable authors such as William Faulkner, who proved to be a vital inspiration for Welty. This paper aims to... more
Starting from Bakhtin's classification (1986) of the Bildungsroman, this paper offers evidence that Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird (1960) belongs to the fifth category of this genre. We argue that the novel deals not only with the... more
https://ijels.com/detail/deconstructing-the-quest-for-identity-and-meaning-in-margaret-atwood-s-surfacing/ Margaret Atwood's novel, Surfacing (1972) addresses the Woman's Question through the point of view of young woman who travels... more
Esta pesquisa apresenta como principal objetivo o exame de lugares-comuns do New American Gothic e, mais especificamente, do Southern Gothic. Para isso, baseia-se na tradição retórica de lugares-comuns como uma estrutura... more
Ever since Christopher Columbus set foot in America, the leitmotif of the travel narratives written by those visiting it has been that of shaping the unknown territories according to prefabricated ideas. The importance held by the myth of... more
This paper provides an analysis of gender binarism in Carson McCullers' novel, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, situated within the socio-cultural milieu of Southern America. It examines the depiction of persisting challenges posed by binary... more
This study enquires into Carson McCullers' The Ballad of the Sad Café (1951) in terms of Disability Studies. McCullers problematizes the disabled body as ‘the other/marginalized’ by introducing a disabled/freak character, Cousin... more
In 2016, he completed his doctoral studies in American literature at the University of Cologne. Greve has published articles on Cormac McCarthy, Mark Z. Danielewski, critical theory, and speculative realism, and he is the co-editor of... more