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El Epicureísmo de Pío Baroja
(Cultural Association Littera Aperta, 2018)
Este artículo estudia la filiación epicúrea del novelista español Pío Baroja. En la primera sección, se analiza su visión pesimista de la vida, rastreando esta actitud en su tesis doctoral sobre el dolor y ...
The Romantic Concealment of Desire: Coleridge’s and Wordsworth’s Poetic Voices
(Cultural Association Littera Aperta, 2018)
The present study poses an interpretation of Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s “The Eolian Harp” and William Wordsworth’s “Lines Written a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey” so as to evince the subject of desireas the ...
Relief in Ignorance, Shattered Subjectivity: A Lacanian Reading of Subjectivity in Anton Chekhov’s “The Bet”
(Cultural Association Littera Aperta, 2018)
This paper provides a psychoanalytical account of subjectivity. It engages in a Lacanian reading of subjectivity in Anton Chekhov’s “The Bet” (1889), whose protagonist, the lawyer, illustrates Jacques Lacan’s ideas ...
Reconsidering white liberals in Native Son
(Cultural Association Littera Aperta, 2017)
This paper examines the novel Native Son (1940) by Richard Wright (1908-1960). When the main character, Bigger Thomas, walks out of Chicago’s Black Belt to work as a chauffeur for the Daltons, a family of white liberals, ...
Mελιττῶν ἀγρίων (phot. bibl. 94.3): ¿abejas o avispas en Babiloníacas de Jámblico?
(Cultural Association Littera Aperta, 2017)
The nature and diet of the apiform insects in Iamblichus’s novel Babylonian Stories (Phot. Bibl. 94.3) are unclear. The present paper concludes that they are an entomologically non-realistic, literary mixture of ...
Cultural alienation and language discontinuity in la Mémoire Tattouée
(Cultural Association Littera Aperta, 2017)
The question of Alienation is a core subject matter of human conditioning in the present era. Therefore, it is natural that a controversial issue like alienation should leave such an indelible influence upon contemporary ...
Trans-Mediation of Gender in Elia Kazan’s Adaptation of A Streetcar Named Desire
(Cultural Association Littera Aperta, 2018)
Elia Kazan is among the first directors who adapted Tennessee Williams’s A Streetcar Named Desire(1951) for the cinema. Kazan’s film adaptation wasalmost faithful to the original manuscript by sticking to Williams’s words ...
Martin M. Winkler (Ed.) (2015). Return to Troy: new essays on the Hollywood epic. Leiden & Boston: Brill
(Cultural Association Littera Aperta, 2017)
Postmodern Aesthetics in African Literature
(Cultural Association Littera Aperta, 2019)
This article examines contemporary critical positions in African literature that mark off perceptible shifts in focus from issues of primal postcolonialism to a more self-reflexive treatment of postmodernism in contemporary ...
Environment, Climate Change, Insecurity and World Peace: A Critical Examination of Selected African Literary Texts
(Cultural Association Littera Aperta, 2019)
The interest in African literary texts has increased significantly in recent times. However, crucial issues such as climate change, environment, insecurity, and world peace have not received adequate attention, despite ...