International Journal of Literature and Arts

Volume 9, Issue 1, January 2021

  • The Stage in Evidence: Foyer’s Journal Study (1891)

    Luciana Nascimento, Joao Carlos de Souza Ribeiro, Renata de Freitas Santos

    Issue: Volume 9, Issue 1, January 2021
    Pages: 1-8
    Received: 11 December 2020
    Accepted: 28 December 2020
    Published: 15 January 2021
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    Abstract: The present work aims to rescue, in the course of history, the importance of Foyer’s journal and its influence on the emerging cultural panel in Brazil. Despite its ephemeral passage on the national scene, since Rio de Janeiro was practically the stage for major political, economic, cultural and, above all, literary transformations, the aforementio... Show More
  • The Misapplication of Democracy and the Plight of the Individual in the Drama of Henrik Ibsen

    Innocent Ettia Meh

    Issue: Volume 9, Issue 1, January 2021
    Pages: 9-14
    Received: 23 December 2020
    Accepted: 14 January 2021
    Published: 22 January 2021
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    Abstract: Let me begin by stating the obvious. It is now common knowledge in Henrik Ibsen’s scholarship that the Norwegian playwright had a very uneasy relationship with politicians. The dramatist took delight in satirizing the pomposity and hypocritical practices of politicians and other public officials through the use of a flowery rhetorical style charact... Show More
  • World Renowned Ancient Hindu Vedas – A Brief Appraisal of the Scriptures for Common Man Across the Globe

    Adhikarla Suryanarayana Rao

    Issue: Volume 9, Issue 1, January 2021
    Pages: 15-21
    Received: 9 January 2021
    Accepted: 20 January 2021
    Published: 25 January 2021
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    Abstract: Manuscript write up and appraisal is based exclusively on the monumental 22 volumes compilation of four Vedas –ancient, globally acknowledged Hindu scriptures. As per the references quoted, the four Vedas Viz; Rigveda, Yajur Veda, Sama Veda and Atharva Veda has in all 10,589, 1975, 1 875 and 5977 verses respectively cumulatively making 20,416 verse... Show More
  • Representations of Colonial Racism in Monnè, Outrages and Challenges of Ahmadou Kourouma

    Ibrahim Boumazzou, Khouloud El Masrar

    Issue: Volume 9, Issue 1, January 2021
    Pages: 22-24
    Received: 24 August 2020
    Accepted: 27 November 2020
    Published: 9 February 2021
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    Abstract: This work explores in a precise way Monnè, outrages and challenges by Ahmadou Kourouma (1990). In it, the novelist reconstructs the colonial history of a region of black Africa (the Mandingo) and makes it an essential base for his poetics. Kourouma traces there in a relatively systematic way the various stages of the installation of the Whites in S... Show More
  • Modified Omniscient Narrative and Temporal Structure in Seize the Day

    He Jiexia

    Issue: Volume 9, Issue 1, January 2021
    Pages: 25-33
    Received: 31 December 2020
    Accepted: 19 January 2021
    Published: 27 February 2021
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    Abstract: Impressing people with the profundity of its content and scope, Saul Bellow’s fiction is often the embodiment of alienation, meaning of life, men’s quest for spiritual discernment, and the possibilities of human awakening. Though the content and form have both shown their distinguishing excellence in his novella Seize the Day, it is always Bellow’s... Show More
  • An Issue of “Who Sees” the Fictional World: Teaching the Conceptual Evolution of Focalization

    Shang Guanghui

    Issue: Volume 9, Issue 1, January 2021
    Pages: 34-39
    Received: 6 February 2021
    Accepted: 18 February 2021
    Published: 27 February 2021
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    Abstract: Narratology constitutes a vital component of literary criticism and theory. A prime goal of narratology teaching is to build a systematic conceptual framework of key narrative concepts for students. A good command of the core concepts of narrative theory ensures profound narratological textual criticism. Taking focalization as a case study for Chin... Show More
  • An Ecofeministic Analysis of the Causes of Mary’s Tragedy in The Grass Is Singing

    Lei Zhu, Ziyi Huang

    Issue: Volume 9, Issue 1, January 2021
    Pages: 40-45
    Received: 28 January 2021
    Published: 9 March 2021
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    Abstract: The Grass Is Singing is the first published book of Doris Lessing, a famous British female writer, whose novels are largely concerned with people involved in the social upheavals of the 20th century. This story is about a white farmer Dick and his wife Mary and their black servant Moses in Africa. In this novel, Doris Lessing presents readers with ... Show More