An analysis of Emily Dickinson’s (1830 – 1886) “Because I could not stop for death”
By Ian Fletcher Before I start my humble analysis, here is the poem to refresh the memories of those who know it and to introduce it to those who haven’t […]
Category Archives: Literary criticism
Top Writers Who Used Stream OF Consciousness to its Best
Among the myriad ways that storytellers and novelists have invented to narrate their tales, stream of consciousness is perhaps the only tool that has caught everyone’s fancy. While it sounds […]
Hemingway’s Universe: The Gravity of Irony
By Jack Kamm “The tragedy of machismo is that a man is never quite man enough.” ~Germaine Greer Like most of us, Hemingway couldn’t expunge his childhood, whose damage […]
“Ethnic Anxiety, Cultural Clash reflected in the work of South Asian Writers”
By: Indu Pandey Parsis migrated from Persia to India in 7th century AD. They first settled in Sanjan and later spread to Bombay and many other parts of India. They had […]
The Melancholic’s Journey to the Real: Murakami’s the Wind-up Chronicle
By: Ilgın Yıldız Before embarking on a journey to find his wife, Toru Okada, the protagonist of Haruki Murakami’s The Wind-up Bird Chronicle, is a man of a simple and […]
Traversing the Expressible: Stories of Death and Desire
By: Ilgin Yildiz Death and desire are inexhaustible themes in literary works, and short story as a brief literary form, allows for condensed and layered philosophical and psychological explorations. This essay will […]
Bards behind bars: Literature in a locked-down land
By: William T. Hathaway Prisons are one of the few growth industries in the USA today. They are becoming money-making institutions, and profits are rising. New ones are being built […]
Palestine—Hymn OR Dirge
GATE OF THE SUN– A Novel by Elias Khoury By Gaither Stewart (Rome) On this hot Italian late afternoon, after over a week inside the literary work entitled Gate of […]
Innocence
“Нужно иметь сердце, чтобы понять!” (One needs heart to understand) By Gaither Stewart (Rome) In his novel, The Idiot, Dostoevsky wrote that beauty can save the world, admitting however that […]
A Reflection of Anita Desai’s Thematic Concerns in the Novel, The Village by the Sea
By: Indunil Madhusankha ABSTRACT Garlanded with universal appreciation, Anita Desai is one of the most distinguished Indo-English writers of the post-colonial era. Her contribution towards the contemporary Indian English novel has […]
