International Journal of Literature and Arts

Volume 3, Issue 6, November 2015

  • Symbolism in Jude the Obscure

    Zhou Haixia, Yang Zhaohui

    Issue: Volume 3, Issue 6, November 2015
    Pages: 129-135
    Received: 29 September 2015
    Accepted: 24 October 2015
    Published: 13 November 2015
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    Abstract: Jude the Obscure is the last novel of Thomas Hardy, written at the end of 19th century. Hardy renders many ways to convey his deep understanding of the society and the human being through the novel. However, the use of symbols in Jude the Obscure and in Hardy's other novels occupy the most prominent position. In modern period, in the decades after ... Show More
  • Native Korean Speakers’ Attitudes Toward Konglish as a Standardized Variety of English

    Quanisha Charles

    Issue: Volume 3, Issue 6, November 2015
    Pages: 136-141
    Received: 18 October 2015
    Accepted: 27 October 2015
    Published: 13 November 2015
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    Abstract: This study examines native Korean speakers’ attitudes toward the use of Konglish outside of the Korean context and within an international context, as a means of conversing and negotiating with non-Koreans. The purpose of this study seeks to determine if native Korean speakers are in favor of Konglish being legitimately recognized as a standardized... Show More
  • An Interpretation of the Modern World Through W.B. Yeats’s “The Second Coming” (1919) and T. S. Eliot’s “Sweeney Erect” (1919)

    Ashti Anwar Muhammed

    Issue: Volume 3, Issue 6, November 2015
    Pages: 142-145
    Received: 19 October 2015
    Accepted: 26 October 2015
    Published: 17 November 2015
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    Abstract: This research deals with the modern world and the literary and nonliterary influences that shaped the world in the twentieth century. These influenced the two outstanding poets to write their well known-poems, especially Yeats’s “The Second Coming” (19191) and Eliot’s “Sweeney Erect” (1919), furthermore; it deals with the strong connection between ... Show More
  • Ineffectiveness of Sentences in English Writing by Chinese Postgraduates: Problem Analysis and Solutions

    Li Fengjie, Ren Jia, Shi Baihui

    Issue: Volume 3, Issue 6, November 2015
    Pages: 146-151
    Received: 29 October 2015
    Accepted: 6 November 2015
    Published: 24 November 2015
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    Abstract: English writing, a crucial medium of language communication, is a skill which needs comprehensive use of knowledge and the most challenging one for L2 learners among the four language skills of listening, speaking, reading and writing. With a view to finding out the current situation of English writing by Chinese postgraduates, the author conducted... Show More
  • A Structural Study of Hemingway's the Old Man and the Sea Through Dual Oppositions

    Asma Jasim Muhammad

    Issue: Volume 3, Issue 6, November 2015
    Pages: 152-157
    Received: 20 October 2015
    Accepted: 29 October 2015
    Published: 2 December 2015
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    Abstract: Dual oppositions are vital to the structuralist view which appreciated a wide usage in diverse arenas of life. One of the most crucial arenas is literary language as language is the most complicated means of passing on senses. Inside one manuscript, meaning is conveyed merely sensibly, and structuralists and semioticians search for a number of inte... Show More
  • Escape from and Replay of Racial Wounds in “Beloved”

    Mengjia Li

    Issue: Volume 3, Issue 6, November 2015
    Pages: 162-165
    Received: 30 October 2015
    Accepted: 11 November 2015
    Published: 10 December 2015
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    Abstract: Morrison's "Beloved" chronicles the brutality of slavery in North America as well as deep trauma to the black community. The abolishment of slavery failed to grant the black and their descents a relief, on the contrary, it produces a more severe post-traumatic stress, disrupting the normal life and the spiritual world of the survivors. Faced with t... Show More
  • Ideology and Emancipation in Maria Susanna Cummins

    Goetz Egloff

    Issue: Volume 3, Issue 6, November 2015
    Pages: 166-170
    Received: 10 November 2015
    Accepted: 21 November 2015
    Published: 10 December 2015
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    Abstract: The essay highlights aspects of ideology and of emancipation issues in Maria Susanna Cummins´ novel, The Lamplighter, published in 1854. Being a domestic, or sentimental, novel it reached a wide range of readers, as did many of contemporary female authors referred to as literary domestics. Though simply structured, The Lamplighter carries a specifi... Show More
  • The Hurdles in Front of Women in Expressing Their Voice in Eliot's The Waste Land

    Mariwan N. Hasan, Shamal A. Hussein

    Issue: Volume 3, Issue 6, November 2015
    Pages: 171-175
    Received: 20 November 2015
    Accepted: 5 December 2015
    Published: 30 December 2015
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    Abstract: For the past previous decades critics have been disapproving Thomas Stearns Eliot repeatedly for his misogynistic dealing of female in his poems. A limited number, though, have regarded his depiction of female roles in assisting the themes he was dealing with in his poetry. The narrative space of The Waste Land is conquered chiefly by female, both ... Show More
  • Trauma of Immigration and War in Marina Budhos’ Ask Me No Questions [2007], and Cathryn Clinton’s a Stone in My Hand [2002]

    Ebtihal Abdelsalam Elshaikh

    Issue: Volume 3, Issue 6, November 2015
    Pages: 176-185
    Received: 21 December 2015
    Accepted: 29 December 2015
    Published: 11 January 2016
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    Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to show how psychological trauma resulted from conflicts such as immigration, wars, colonialism, and invasion; and even gender discrimination makes its way into postcolonial children’s literature. For example, some contemporary writers of children's literature depict the painful experience of young immigrants who are li... Show More
  • Ecologically Sustainable Implementations in Contemporary Fashion Design

    Tang Qian, Chen Ying

    Issue: Volume 3, Issue 6, November 2015
    Pages: 158-161
    Received: 30 June 2015
    Accepted: 11 July 2015
    Published: 20 July 2015
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    Abstract: Clothing is not only a necessity in modern life, but also a consumable to satisfy customers’ demands. People nowadays cannot live without the need for clothing. The number of spare clothes has increased dramatically due to the fact that consumers have a natural tendency to purchase clothes impulsively. The spare clothes that are left idle annually ... Show More