Interdisciplinary Literary Studies Volume 21 Issue 4

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Shifting Perceptions of Orient and Occident in Nineteenth-Century Arabic Travel Writing

Almarhaby, Ibrahem

2020 Interdisciplinary Literary Studies

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This study investigates the relationship between the Eastern Self and the Western Other by focusing on the influence of the French Other on the ideology of the Arab Self in modern Arabic travel literature. As a case study, the analysis has been conducted on TakhlÄ«á¹£...

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The Counterpoints of Glenn Gould and Edward Said

Bartine, David

2020 Interdisciplinary Literary Studies

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Two of Edward Said's several writings about pianist and writer Glenn Gould are titled "Glenn Gould, the Virtuoso as Intellectual" and "The Music Itself: Glenn Gould's Contrapuntal Vision." In Musical Elaborations, Said refers to the need for new attempts "to...

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Female Writing in Chinese Postmodern Literature: From Neorealism to Avant-garde

Castelli, Alberto

2020 Interdisciplinary Literary Studies

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Loyal to the path spotted by the avant-garde and in contrast to the aesthetics of socialist realism, Chinese female literary production in the post-Mao era is iconoclast in its intentions. Having the ideological truth being stripped away from the text, the shaking reality...

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"That Flexible Flageolet": Music, Homophobia, and Anti-Semitism in George Du Maurier's Trilby

Peak, Anna

2020 Interdisciplinary Literary Studies

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Freud argued in Totem and Taboo (1918) that where there is taboo there is also desire; we might reverse this idea slightly with regard to Trilby to say that where there is conflicted desire there is, and must also be, taboo, in order to contain and manage the troubling...

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"Oh yes. The hat": Hats at Work in Conrad

Warodell, Johan Adam

2020 Interdisciplinary Literary Studies

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This article explores a set of marginal characters of topmost importance: hats. The study of hats may, of course, appear to smack of esoteric trivia. I argue that such a commonsensical assumption is at odds with Joseph Conrad's fictional hats: their variety, number, and...

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Developing an Ecofeminist Literary Criticism Model to Cultivate An Ecologically Aware and Feminist Generation

Wiyatmi, Wiyatmi; Suryaman, Maman; Swatikasari, Esti

2020 Interdisciplinary Literary Studies

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This study is aimed at developing an ecofeminist literary criticism in order to instigate a generation that is ecologically aware and feminist. The study is based on research and development using five universities in Yogyakarta and Surakarta that run Indonesian literature...

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Speaking Without Words: Luhrmann's Adaptation of Romeo and Juliet

Pizano, Arturo Leyva

2020 Interdisciplinary Literary Studies

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In an assessment of Baz Luhrmann's 1996 film, William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet, this article takes up the question of what makes a film adaptation of Shakespeare successful. The film has been criticized for its divergence from the letter of...

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