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Varghaiyan, Naghmeh – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2015
This paper explores representation of "Woman Question" in Henrik Ibsen's "A Doll's House" and George Bernard Shaw's "Candida." The paper argues that unlike many studies that have read Candida and Nora as two disparate characters, they can be considered as the same "New Woman" represented only from different…
Descriptors: Drama, Nineteenth Century Literature, Females, Marriage
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Movaghati, Sina; Comcar, Milad – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2015
Many Critics believe that Henry James has set the definitive standards of modern fiction writing. Undoubtedly his groundbreaking article "The Art of Fiction," which published for the first time in 1884, has a major contribution in developing the theories of fiction writing. The term Organic Unity has derived from a major Formalist…
Descriptors: Fiction, Literary Criticism, United States Literature, Literary Devices
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Dibavar, Sara Saei; Ahmadzadeh, Shideh – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2014
In "Wuthering Heights," Brontë provides us with the opportunity to meet two writing subjects; Emily Brontë herself and her character Catherine Earnshaw. Both these writers resist and challenge the authority of the patriarchal. Their different methods of interaction, though, cause one to fail and the other one to succeed. The objective of…
Descriptors: Authors, English Literature, Nineteenth Century Literature, Figurative Language
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Daiya, Krishna – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2014
Percy Bysshe Shelley was a poet whose name itself is a Metaphor for exquisite, rhythmic poetry laden with images of Nature as well as Man. He possesses the magical power of transporting the reader into an alternative world with the unique use of metaphors and imagery. His personal sadness was translated into sweet songs that are echoed in the…
Descriptors: Poetry, Art, English Literature, Nineteenth Century Literature
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Fonseka, Edirisingha Arachchige Gamini – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2014
According to the theory of dialogism propounded by Mikhail Bakhtin, all discourse in the novel is a product of a process of dialogic imagination. Yet heteroglossic situation in the novel differs from general narration, as it involves interaction among two or more characters speaking in their respective voices to represent different aspects of…
Descriptors: Novels, Discourse Analysis, Dialogs (Language), Speech
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Saleh, Nafiseh Salman; Abbasi, Pyeaam – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2014
Heralded as a sympathizer with the oppressed nineteenth century femininity, Thomas Hardy adopted an aggressive stance towards the institutionalized codes of the time, particularly the ideal of femininity which results in presenting him as one of the promethean forerunners of "New Woman" fiction. His outspoken attitudes are tangible in…
Descriptors: Nineteenth Century Literature, Novels, Literary Devices, Victorian Literature
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Asl, Moussa Pourya – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2014
The study attempts to indicate how the manifest content of a text is in essence the projection of the obsessional thoughts of the neurotic author. The research approach adopted in this study is what is referred to as psychobiography or the Freudian psychoanalytic criticism. Freud's ideas have been employed due to the increasing shift to him in the…
Descriptors: English Literature, Nineteenth Century Literature, Mothers, Novels
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Saleh, Nafiseh Salman; Abbasi, Pyeaam – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2014
As a prolific nineteenth-century novelist, Thomas Hardy witnessed how women were treated as well as the dreadful conditions in which they lived. Well aware of the nineteenth-century limitations on femininity, Hardy stood for women's downtrodden rights. Henceforth, so as to examine Hardy's personal thoughts and impressions towards the prevailing…
Descriptors: English Literature, Nineteenth Century Literature, Novels, Females