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Perspectives On Identity, Migration, And Displacement, Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek, I-Chun Wang, Hsiao-Yu Sun National Sun Yat-Sen University

Perspectives On Identity, Migration, And Displacement, Steven Tötösy De Zepetnek, I-Chun Wang, Hsiao-Yu Sun

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Perspectives on Identity, Migration, and Displacement -- edited by Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek, I-Chun Wang, and Hsiao-Yu Sun (Kaohsiung: National Sun Yat-sen University Press, 2010. ISBN 9789860235418 209 pages, bibliography, index) is a collection of articles about sociological and literary aspects of identity formation as a consequence of (im)migration. (Im)migration results in the problematics of assimilation and hybridity and in postcolonial scholarship, in particular, attention is paid to the concept of migration termed "Creolization" on the ground that cultural contact, cultural transmission, and cultural transformation result in the creation of new cultures. Copyright release by National Sun Yat-sen University ...

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Nobilitashungariae: List Of Historical Surnames Of The Hungarian Nobility, Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek Purdue University

Nobilitashungariae: List Of Historical Surnames Of The Hungarian Nobility, Steven Tötösy De Zepetnek

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nobilitashungariae: List of Historical Surnames of the Hungarian Nobility / A magyar történelmi nemesség családneveinek listája (ISSN 1923-9580)—compiled by Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek—is based on published historical genealogical sources. nobilitashungariae is archived in the Electronic Collection of Library and Archives Canada.

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Comparative Literature: Theory, Method, Application, Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek University of Alberta

Comparative Literature: Theory, Method, Application, Steven Tötösy De Zepetnek

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Tötösy de Zepetnek, Steven. Comparative Literature: Theory, Method, Application. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1998. ISBN 90-420-0534-3 299 pages, bibliography, index. Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek presents a framework of comparative literature based on a contextual (systemic and empirical) approach for the study of culture and literature and applies the framework in audience studies, film and literature, women's literature, translation studies, new media and scholarship in the humanities and in the analyses of English, French, German, Austrian, Hungarian, Romanian, and English-Canadian modern, contemporary, and ethnic minority texts. Copyright release to the author in 2006.

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Echoes Of Peace: Anti-War Sentiment In The Iliad And Heike Monogatari And Its Manifestation In Dramatic Tradition, Tyler A. Creer Brigham Young University

Echoes Of Peace: Anti-War Sentiment In The Iliad And Heike Monogatari And Its Manifestation In Dramatic Tradition, Tyler A. Creer

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The Iliad and Heike monogatari are each seen as seminal pieces of literature in Greek and Japanese culture respectively. Both works depict famous wars from which subsequent generations of warriors, poets, and other artists in each society drew their inspiration for their own modes of conduct and creation. While neither work is emphatically pro-war, both were used extensively by the warrior classes of both cultures to reinforce warrior culture and to inculcate proper battlefield behavior. In spite of this, however, both tales contain a strong undercurrent of anti-war sentiment which contrasts sharply with their traditionally seen roles of being tales ...

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Anita Desai's Fasting, Feasting And The Condition Of Women, Ludmila Volná Charles University

Anita Desai's Fasting, Feasting And The Condition Of Women, Ludmila Volná

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In her paper, "Anita Desai's Fasting, Feasting and the Condition of Women," Ludmila Volná presents a critical culture-based reading of Desai's novel Fasting, Feasting, a work that deals with the condition of women (not only) in India. Volná analyses both the female and the male sensitivity in the novel where Desai makes use of a double symbolic of food expressed throughout the novel by (not only literal) hunger. In Volná's view, Desai's Hindu imagery of sun/fire as patriarchal power and water, which, as the counterpart of the sun and fire, represents recognition of women’s ...

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An Opposing Self: Doppelgangers In Frankenstein, Jekyll And Hyde, And Fight Club, Christine M. Gamache Rhode Island College

An Opposing Self: Doppelgangers In Frankenstein, Jekyll And Hyde, And Fight Club, Christine M. Gamache

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People have always been both frightened and fascinated by the unknown, and themes touching on the existence of things beyond human understanding have longevity in the literary arena as well as in popular culture. One such theme is that of the doppelgänger, or double, which has been around for centuries but was first made popular by Jean-Paul’s (Johann Paul Friedrich Richter) work Hesperus in 1795. Due to a resurgence in the nineteenth century in the popularity of Gothic literature, doppelgängers, or variations of this double motif, found their way into some of the most famous works of literature by ...

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"Lord Of The Flies": The Educational Value Of Golding's Text, Erin M. Frank Salve Regina University

"Lord Of The Flies": The Educational Value Of Golding's Text, Erin M. Frank

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This paper takes a careful look at the content of Lord of the Flies often questioned by censorship advocates. Next, an exploration of the import behind William Golding’s symbolic objects and characters reveals the specifics of the literary and human value of the novel. Finally, insight from case studies helps further demonstrate the appropriateness and effectiveness of the novel in high school English curriculums while also revealing student responses in regard to Golding’s work and the worldly issues informed by it.

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Women And War: Power Play From Lysistrata To The Present, Shuyang Cynthia Luo University of Connecticut

Women And War: Power Play From Lysistrata To The Present, Shuyang Cynthia Luo

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"Women and War: Power Play from Lysistrata to the Present" is a three-fold project intent on analyzing the role of women in war and comedy. The intentions are: demonstrating how Aristophanes’ famed comedy, Lysistrata, was a subversive text for its time, as it presented a challenge to men’s authority that otherwise remained unchallenged, creating a modernized retelling of Lysistrata, which she holds would still be a subversive text, because men still have nearly absolute authority in war, and finally, analyzing the comedic nature of Lysistrata in a modern text; namely, why women’s choices constitute a comedy, and the ...

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Cultures Matter: A Review Article Of Books By Harrison And Huntington, Segesváry, And Breckenridge, Pollock, Bhabha, And Chakrabarty, William H. Thornton National Cheng Kung University

Cultures Matter: A Review Article Of Books By Harrison And Huntington, Segesváry, And Breckenridge, Pollock, Bhabha, And Chakrabarty, William H. Thornton

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From Commonwealth To Postcolonial Literature, Edward O. Ako University of Yaounde I

From Commonwealth To Postcolonial Literature, Edward O. Ako

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In his paper,"From Commonwealth to Postcolonial Literature," Edward O.Ako begins by establishing the link between Empire and English-language literature. Drawing on Elleke Boehmer, Gauri Viswanath, and Terry Eagleton, Ako discusses the ideological uses of literature and argues that the textual forms that emerged as "resistance" to imperial domination were referred to by a multiplicity of terms: Commonwealth Literature, New English Literature, Literature in English, Third World Literature, World Fiction, Minority Literature, Multicultural Literature, or Postcolonial Literature. Ako examines the merits and handicaps of each designation and explains why, in his view, the term "postcolonial" is the more appropriate ...

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Tributo A El Largo Adiós De Raymond Chandler En El Bandido Doblemente Armado De Soledad Puértolas, Paloma Pérez Valdés 2015 DIT School of Languges

Tributo A El Largo Adiós De Raymond Chandler En El Bandido Doblemente Armado De Soledad Puértolas, Paloma Pérez Valdés

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En este artículo se analiza cómo en El bandido doblemente armado de Soledad Puétolas se hace un tributo a El largo adiós de Raymond Chandler.

Marlowe aparecía en El largo adiós como el verdadero protagonista que nos muestra su visión de la realidad más que nunca, permitiéndonos un mayor conocimiento de su interior. Del mismo modo, el narrador de El bandido doblemente armado, consigue una identidad propia al hacer que los encuentros y desencuetros con los otros personajes trasciendan.

El segundo personaje principal en las dos novelas tiene el mismo nombre, Terry Lennox. Si la similitud de los narradores es ...

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Orphic Powers In J.R.R. Tolkien's Legend Of Beren And Lúthien, Jane Beal PhD 2015 University of California, Davis

Orphic Powers In J.R.R. Tolkien's Legend Of Beren And Lúthien, Jane Beal Phd

Journal of Tolkien Research

In “Orphic Powers in Tolkien’s Legend of Beren and Lúthien,” I consider three interrelated strands that influenced the development of Tolkien’s most precious story: Tolkien’s own life experience, sources from classical mythology and medieval literature, and the hope inherent to the Christian faith, especially for resurrection and eternal life, as symbolized in the Parable of the Pearl of Great Price. This study suggests that Tolkien’s relationship to his wife, Edith, inspires the legend and renders it a psychological allegory. Three Ovidian tales from classical mythology that were later re-told in medieval literature also influence it: the ...

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Acknowledgements/Image Credits, Molly Lynde-Recchia 2014 Western Michigan University

Acknowledgements/Image Credits, Molly Lynde-Recchia

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Notes On Contributors, Molly Lynde-Recchia 2014 Western Michigan University

Notes On Contributors, Molly Lynde-Recchia

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Brief biographical notes on contributing translators.

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Commentary On Translating Tao Yuanming And Li Shangyin, Andrew Gudgel 2014 Independent Scholar

Commentary On Translating Tao Yuanming And Li Shangyin, Andrew Gudgel

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Notes by Andrew Gudgel on the translation of three Chinese poems into English.

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Frost Moon And Autumn Arrives By Li Shangyin, Andrew Gudgel 2014 Independent Scholar

Frost Moon And Autumn Arrives By Li Shangyin, Andrew Gudgel

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Translated from the Chinese by Andrew Gudgel.

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Cloudy Skies By Tao Yuanming, Andrew Gudgel 2014 Independent Scholar

Cloudy Skies By Tao Yuanming, Andrew Gudgel

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Translated from the Chinese by Andrew Gudgel.

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First Mill (Excerpts) By René Char, Nancy Naomi N. Carlson 2014 University of the District of Columbia

First Mill (Excerpts) By René Char, Nancy Naomi N. Carlson

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Translated from the French with commentary by Nancy Naomi Carlson.

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The Eighth Eclogue By Vergil, Ann Lauinger 2014 Sarah Lawrence College

The Eighth Eclogue By Vergil, Ann Lauinger

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Translated from the Latin with commentary by Ann Lauinger.

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Ryōan Temple Rock Garden By Murō Saisei, Michael Tangeman 2014 Denison University

Ryōan Temple Rock Garden By Murō Saisei, Michael Tangeman

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Translated from the Japanese with commentary by Michael Stone Tangeman.

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Selections From Man’Yōshū By Various Authors, John G. Peters 2014 University of North Texas

Selections From Man’Yōshū By Various Authors, John G. Peters

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Translated from the Japanese with commentary by John Peters.

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The Fisherman By Anonymous, Luke J. Chambers 2014 Western Michigan University

The Fisherman By Anonymous, Luke J. Chambers

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Translated from the Old French with commentary by Luke Chambers.

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Gray Toad And Color Of The Season By Ōte Takuji, Dean A. Brink 2014 Tamkang University, Taiwan (R.O.C.)

Gray Toad And Color Of The Season By Ōte Takuji, Dean A. Brink

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Translated from the Japanese with commentary by Dean A. Brink.

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Mona Lisa, A Deer, That Man, And The Night Of An Artificial Satellite By Murano Shirō, Goro Takano 2014 Saga University Faculty of Medicine

Mona Lisa, A Deer, That Man, And The Night Of An Artificial Satellite By Murano Shirō, Goro Takano

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Translated from the Japanese with commentary by Goro Takano.

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A Bath And Always By Khaled Abdallah, Nicholas Swett 2014 Northwestern University

A Bath And Always By Khaled Abdallah, Nicholas Swett

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Translated from the Arabic with commentary by Nicholas Swett.

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The Banyan Tree, Untitled, To --, A Dried Flower--For Someone, Palace-Cave Mountain, And Nanmu Forest By Cai Qijiao, Edward A. Morin 2014 College for Creative Studies

The Banyan Tree, Untitled, To --, A Dried Flower--For Someone, Palace-Cave Mountain, And Nanmu Forest By Cai Qijiao, Edward A. Morin

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Translated from the Chinese with commentary by Edward Morin, Dennis Ding, and Fang Dai.

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Just Above Silence By Anna Greki, Lynda Chouiten 2014 University of Boumerdes

Just Above Silence By Anna Greki, Lynda Chouiten

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Translated from the French with commentary by Lynda Chouiten.

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Ribbons Of May, Fading, Green, And Angels Of The Sea By Sagawa Chika, Rina Kikuchi, Carol Hayes 2014 Shiga University

Ribbons Of May, Fading, Green, And Angels Of The Sea By Sagawa Chika, Rina Kikuchi, Carol Hayes

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Translated from the Japanese with commentary by Rina Kikuchi and Carol Hayes.

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On The Tomb Of A Great Beauty By Claudian, Brett Foster 2014 Wheaton College - Wheaton

On The Tomb Of A Great Beauty By Claudian, Brett Foster

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Translated from the Latin with commentary by Brett Foster.

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Foreword, David Kutzko, Molly Lynde-Recchia 2014 Western Michigan University

Foreword, David Kutzko, Molly Lynde-Recchia

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Thoughts on the second volume by editors-in-chief David Kutzko and Molly Lynde-Recchia.

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Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek Purdue University

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