This paper examines how the issue of usury in The Merchant of Venice revisits the notion of adventure ideology. While Bassanio’s Belmont venture is compared to Jason’s Golden Fleece expedition, his victory in winning Portia over other competitors operates within the narrative of economic nationalism…
In opposition to conventional narratives and studio filming techniques, the Nouvelle Vague epitomizes postmodernism in French film arts. Nouvelle Vague films are characterized by their freedom of style and new approach to everyday lives of ordinary people…
This study tries to locate the interface of the moral and political aspects found in John Gower’s Confessio Amantis. The epithet moral has traditionally been attached to Gower. Gower has also been under suspicion for being too political, especially because he changed the recipients of dedication from Richard II to Henry of Derby who will be enthroned later as Henry IV…
Thomas Heywood’s The Fair Maid of the West is unique among adventure dramas, a sub-genre of early modern drama that articulate “both the ambitions and the anxieties of a nation poised to refigure its position on the world stage”, in that it features a female as the protagonist…
This paper reflects on the liminal experience of teaching Beowulf through Seamus Heaney’s translation to Taiwanese college students. It suggests that the Irish Nobel Laureate’s nuanced mediation captures the poem’s fringe dynamics out of the threefold Scandinavian/Insular/Continental circuit…
The Glorious Revolution signaled the end of divine right kingship and changed the ideological frame. Hierarchy, however, was apparently safe, and birth remained a norm of social classification. Heirs and heiresses could not have a choice in mate selection. Besides, heiresses had to survive in a patriarchal system.
This article investigates the ways that John Donne’s Holy Sonnets is weaved into the TV film Wit, the screen adaptation of the play Wit, demonstrating that the movie’s cinematic treatment of the Holy Sonnets makes this classic work still relevant to the modern popular culture…
This paper aims to show that Mary Wroth attempts to publicize her own voice as a female writer and the literary heir of Philip Sidney through the female protagonist of Urania. At first glance, Urania seems to be a titular character…
John Milton’s statements that seemingly attack humanist learning have long posed a perplexing question to literary scholars…
This essay examines the ways in which women’s writing was informed and promoted, bringing into focus Elizabeth Jocelin’s self-edited manuscript of maternal legacy and its 1624 print edition with Thomas Goad’s approbation…
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