VOLUME 10(2) • 2022
The Sublimitas of Confessiones. Augustinian Imagery and the Occurrence of Similes
ABSTRACT. In this article, we wish to highlight the fact that Blessed Augustine’s Confessiones is more than a mere autobiography as it lays the foundations for the literary genre of inner autobiography. The act of writing for him, a born writer, was life itself, the condition of his life: the writer..
The Discourse of Grief and Trauma in Karan Mahajan’s The Association of Small Bombs
ABSTRACT. This paper addresses the representation of terror, grief and trauma in Karan Mahajan’s The Association of Small Bombs, both at individual and collective level. It imagines how terrorism, violence, and trauma may be linked in unexpected ways in the various associations artistically dealt wi..
Re-writing the Monster and Female Identity
ABSTRACT. Female identity exists in the narrow space between oppositions and dualities, the space that must be constantly negotiated. Starting with Ancient Greek mythology, continuing with the Bible, Literature and the Arts, the female body has been represented as an empty vessel to be filled with m..
The Concept of Debt and its Socio-Economic Consequences upon Female Identity in Rumpelstiltskin
ABSTRACT. Wheel-spinning is one of the oldest chores related to the domestic sphere, having as a central element the woman in possession of the spinning instrument. The American theorist Jack Zipes argues that men possess power over the wheel, a symbol of the universal balance, but only women can ma..
Milkman’s Spatial Identity in Song of Solomon
ABSTRACT. Tony Morrison’s Song of Solomon could be generally regarded as a novel which depicts the story of four generations. But what strikes the reader is the way in which Morrison chooses to present all these four stories into a single one. One may say that they are inevitably connected since the..