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Author(s): Fred Siegel [sup.1] Author Affiliations: (1) grid.447677.1, 0000 0004 0381 2653, Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art and a scholar-in-residence, Saint Francis College, , New York [...]

Author(s): Maureen Mullarkey [sup.1] Author Affiliations: (1) New York, NY, USA When I learned that John Leo had retired as editor-in-chief of Minding the Campus , my thoughts leaped to [...]

Anne Thackeray Ritchie and Angela Carter both recreated the classic tale Beauty and the Beast. This article analyses these recreated tales using the new historicist and feminist theories. The analysis allows for a discussion of how each tale conforms to and/or contrasts with expected gender roles. Thackeray and Carter reflect particular ideas about gender within their tales. Writing in the 19th and 20th centuries, respectively, the women published within particularly patriarchal social contexts - Ritchie slightly more so than Carter. The limiting social contexts allowed for minimal, if any, diversion from the status quo of expected gender behaviours. These social contexts impacted on the writers of these centuries and their texts. However, writers such as Thackeray and Carter did not simply accept the patriarchal expectations thrust upon men and women but actively commented against them within their tales. These women writers developed tales that were commentaries on the gender expectations of their social contexts. Although both of these centuries were saturated with patriarchal ideas encouraging particular rigid behaviours for men and women, Thackeray and Carter sought to recreate these limiting gender expectations through publishing dynamic tales. Each writer includes characters and relationships in their tales, which are alternatives to their societies' patriarchal expectations of men and women. By creating new narratives into their Beauty and the Beast tales, these women writers both question and critique patriarchal rule and provide alternatives to it., Author(s): Monique Banks (corresponding author) [1] Introduction The genre of fairy tales has a rich history, stemming back centuries. Originally shared as adult entertainment, the genre soon became literature for [...]

Flicking through a Shakespeare play one of the most obvious divisions of his language is that between prose and verse. Put simply, you can spot verse--even when it's only single […]

The phrase 'the life after the life' I have appropriated from a collection of essays on Walt Whitman edited by the scholar Robert K. Martin. In this book Martin and […]

Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code has raised awareness of the elusive May Magdalene. The novel's premiere is that Leonardo da Vinci in his paintings concealed, clues about the marriage between Jesus and Mary Magdalene, which the church had suppressed for two thousand years.

The life of Jean Gottmann, a Russian immigrant whose family had fled to France during the Russian revolution is discussed. His writings about Megalopolis and his early training in history and geography as well as his own interpretation are described.

Reknowned writers such as Susan Sontag, Joyce Carol Oates, Nadine Gordimer, and Doris Lessing discuss books that made a lasting impression in 2002.

Lu Xun is described as the first and the most prominent writer in modern Chinese literature. His writings represent a fast-evolving relationship being created between writers and their society.

In daily life we never understand each other, neither complete clairvoyance nor complete confessional exists. But people in a novel can be understood completely by the reader, if the novelist [...]

The story of Blacks in Spanish America, one of the five great African diasporas of historical record, described by Colin Palmer is reviewed. The issues concerning the African experience in early Spanish America are discussed.

Many writers of the Italian Novecento tried their hand at writing for newspapers with elzeviri for the terza pagina, film and theater criticism, travel journals and news articles, often leaving [...]

The author discusses William Trevor's skill in portraying disagreeable events and unpleasant characters in a vividly original style. Trevor's descriptions are powerful enough to elicit anxiety from his readers while suggesting an alternative to despair.

Michel Foucault undermined the ontological status of the writer in his 1969 essay, 'What Is an Author?', but only in theory. Roland Barthes and Jacques Derrida argued that there is no central core from which a piece of literature arises. Whether biographical information expands or alters an author's text is questionable. The artist presents emotionally charged material but is not in an emotionally charged state.