“There is no God and we are his prophets”: Deconstructing Redemption in Cormac McCarthy’s The Road. (paper under review: not for quotation) Stefan Skrimshire The University of Manchester stefan.skrimshire@manchester.ac.uk 09/09/09 Abstract Despite its overwhelmingly positive reception‚ the apparently redemptive conclusion to Cormac McCarthy’s The Road attracted criticism from some reviewers. They read in it an inconsistency with the nihilism that otherwise pervades the novel‚ as well
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Shakespeare’s Sonnets William Shakespeare The Sonnet Form A sonnet is a fourteen-line lyric poem‚ traditionally written in iambic pentameter—that is‚ in lines ten syllables long‚ with accents falling on every second syllable‚ as in: “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?” The sonnet form first became popular during the Italian Renaissance‚ when the poet Petrarch published a sequence of love sonnets addressed to an idealized woman named Laura. Taking firm hold among Italian poets‚ the sonnet
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Manfred Jahn Narratology: A Guide to the Theory of Narrative Full reference: Jahn‚ Manfred. 2005. Narratology: A Guide to the Theory of Narrative. English Department‚ University of Cologne. Version: 1.8. New in this version: Some modified definitions in N1; set of analytical question in N1.33; recent narratological literature (N2.1); hypothetical focalization and empty centers (N3.2.5); story grammars (N4.5); revised references and bibliography. Date: 28 May 2005 This page: http://www.uni-koeln
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1. Introduction The present thesis will analyse Ian McEwan’s late novel Enduring Love in light of the theories of postmodernism. The aim is to reveal postmodernity as the subject matter of the given novel. Enduring Love’s inherent debate over the change of the approach to science in aftermath of the demise of the pro-Enlightenment modernity will be identified. The main protagonist’s tendency to suppose an “objective” truth‚ his relentless endeavouring of rationalizing the reality and providing
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corporate associations: Consumer attributions for corporate socially responsible programs Fombrun‚ C.‚ & Shanley‚ M. (1990). What ’s in a name? Reputation building and corporate strategy Furman‚ D. M. (2010). The development of corporate image: A historiographic approach to a marketing concept Ha‚ B. J. (1999). A study of corporate image factors affecting purchasing intention. Haanpää‚ L. (2007). Consumers ’ green commitment: Indication of a postmodern lifestyle? International Journal of Consumer Studies
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MINING FOR MEANING: A STUDY OF MINIMALISM IN AMERICAN LITERATURE by JEREMY ROBERT BAILEY‚ B.A.‚ M.A. A DISSERTATION IN ENGLISH Submitted to the Graduate Faculty of Texas Tech University in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY Approved Wendell Aycock Chair of the Committee Sara Spurgeon Scott Baugh Ralph Ferguson Dean of the Graduate School December 2010 Copyright 2010 Jeremy Robert Bailey Texas Tech University‚ Jeremy Robert Bailey‚ December 2010
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SSR 7101 Major Debates in the Study of Africa Title Historiography‚ Representation and the History of Buganda Guweddeko Fred May 2012 Abstract Scholars concerned with the challenges of method in studying the past and reflecting it in later periods are torn between intellectual veracity and the problem of multiple discourses on historicity and history. On this premise‚ this essay examines the problematics of the history of Buganda; the problems of historiography in its compilation and in the factors
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The massacre of 1603: Chinese perception of the Spaniards in the Philippines José Eugenio Borao National Taiwan University From a historiographic point of view‚ the incident of 1603 acquires special significance in the long and tragic history of Chinese massacres in the Philippines. For compared to all the rest‚ this has been the best chronicled‚ not only in Spanish‚ but also in Chinese sources. Moreover‚ both coincide in the presentation of facts and are alike in the ordering of events. When
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The Raymond Carver Review 2 Influences of Feminism and Class on Raymond Carver’s Short Stories Vanessa Hall‚ New York City College of Technology‚ CUNY Class—economic circumstance; problems of being in the first generation of one’s family to come to writing—its relationship to works of literature: the great unexamined. —Tillie Olsen‚ Silences 288 In the essay “Fires” (1982)‚ Raymond Carver writes about the difficulty of “pin[ning] down with any…certainty” the influences on his writing
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5 Psychoanalytic criticism Introduction Psychoanalytic criticism is a form of literary criticism which uses some of the techniques of psychoanalysis in the interpretation of literature. Psychoanalysis itself is a form of therapy which aims to cure mental disorders ’hy investigating the interaction of conscious and unconscious elements in the mind’ (as the Concise Oxford Dictionary puts it). The classic method of doing this is to get the patient to talk freely‚ in such a way that the repressed
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