VOLUME 3(1) • 2020
Is the Virgin Mary blessed? Revisiting Christian symbolism in three of J. D. Salinger’s short stories
ABSTRACT. In this paper, I will reconsider the depiction of Christian symbols in J. D. Salinger’s Nine stories, specifically in terms of how the main female characters in the following three short stories have some connections with, and to a great extent are represented as, the Virgin Mary. I will f..
Roger Zelazny and Hindu thought (II): science fiction gods in Lord of Light
ABSTRACT. The following paper is the second part of our article that explores the influence of Hindu and Buddhist mythology, religion and philosophy in Roger Zelazny’s Lord of Light (1967), the Hugo Award-winning novel (1968) which belongs to the “New-Wave SF.” Lord of Light is particularly signific..
Popular culture as a stimulus for literary creativity: the case for eighteenth-century England
ABSTRACT. The present article focuses on the major role played by popular culture in the development of eighteenth-century literature as a product catering to all walks of life. Although deemed as a set of social, cultural and artistic practices disparaged until the end of the eighteenth century, I ..
Somewhere outside of bliss: George Wallace’s negotiations of space in A simple blues with a few intangibles
ABSTRACT. This paper focuses on the politics of space in George Wallace’s A simple blues with a few intangibles (2016). In particular, it examines how Wallace’s book is informed by the current political developments in the United States, and how the poet, in accordance with contemporary scholarship,..
The universe of Thomas Chatterton: the life and the literary revolution
ABSTRACT. Thomas Chatterton came to be regarded as the enfant terrible of the English letters, who in the decades and century that followed his premature death in 1770 took the British literary scene by storm. How such a state of affairs was possible and what the many cultural and literary implicati..
Book Review
James Gunn on alternate worlds: has science fiction conquered the world? How to cite: Stroe MA (2020) James Gunn on alternate worlds: has science fiction conquered the world? Creativity 3(1): 331–359. doi:10.22381/C3120206 {downloads}{slider Author's contact} MIHAI A. STROEmihaistroe@yahoo.comFac..