supernatural, spooky settings, hyperbolic emotion, and elements of nature. Victorian sensation literature can be portrayed by women in distress, insanity, and complex narrative. Frankenstein, Dracula, and “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” all fall under the description of Victorian Gothic literature. Frankenstein is about a man who defies nature and creates life and then has to go through the consequences. Dracula is about a vampire who wreaks havoc on a group of unlikely friends. “The
birth. William Godwin who was Shelley father was only left to take care of her. The step sister Fanny Imlay was Wollstonecraft 's offspring from an affair, as she was physically involved with a soldier. Frankenstein is a book by Marry Shelley regarding a learner of science named Victor Frankenstein, who generates a hideous but receptive creature in an eccentric technological trial. Shelley wrote
of which is the interest in alternatives to development, not the interest of alternative development. Secondly, a fundamental rejection of the classical development paradigm, thirdly, an interest in local culture and local knowledge, fourthly, a critical perspective on established scientific discourses and lastly, solidarity for pluralistic grassroots movements (Escobar, 1995). Given these tenets, the theorists strongly believe that there is much value in local participatory mechanisms in problem
Since the rise of feminism, that began in the 19th century and reached the highest points in the last decades of the 20th, there appeared more and more literature, in every genre, written by women. Studies of women’s writings have revealed that there are certain common themes that tend to take the place at the top in the women’s literature. Since the first moment of the feminist movement, the number of literary works has been increased as the result of women’s liberation and their revolt, having
The purpose of this research is to investigate the British novelist Hilary Mantel’s relation to the gothic tradition. Actually, Mantel’s novels, which are hard to categorize, ranging from historical fiction to autobiographical writing going through black comedies, can be read from a gothic perspective. Accordingly, Mantel’s writing can be seen as a contribution to the gothic aesthetic which has and continues to witness various developments from its appearance to the present time. The major novels
technology, obliterates the ‘aura’- i.e. the authenticity, authority, originality, uniqueness – of the world of art, thus bringing about a ‘liquidation of the traditional value of the cultural heritage (Aragay, 12).’ However the basic and official critical models of literary film adaptation are all formulated on the film’s degree of fidelity to the literary text (Elliott, 220). The attitude towards this issue of textual fidelity has undergone a remarkable transition from the time when Geoffrey Wagner’s
future. How can dystopian fiction go beyond warning to testimony? Use texts by both American or European and Middle Eastern or North African (MENA) authors to explore how dystopian fiction can be a medium for testimony or bearing witness, as well as criticism. Are there aspects of dystopian speculative fiction that make it particularly appropriate for testimony? Focus your analysis on three or four novels, though feel free to reference other books from your list. Contemporary Western and Arabic dystopian
INTRODUCTION If you deny any affinity with another person or kind of person, if you declare it to be wholly different from yourself—as men have done to women, and class has done to class, and nation has done to nation—you may hate it, or deify it; but in either case you have denied its spiritual equality, and its human reality. You have made it into a thing, to which the only possible relationship is a power relationship. And thus you have fatally impoverished your own reality. You have, in fact