Impossible Worlds and Temporalities in Haruki Murakami’s Kafka on the Shore: Readers’ Paradoxical De
The act of reading is dependent on the text’s comprehensibility but also mutually the readers’ ability to make sense of the text....
Generation X, Avant-Pop and Heading into the Desert where “Things are much, much better”
Walter Benjamin, in his essay “The Work of Art in the Age of its Reproducibility”, argues how art is able to bring about agency due to...
Reimagined Monstrosity: Female bodies and Literary Experiments in Hypertext
At the heart of Shelley Jackson’s Patchwork Girl lies the endeavor to refigure literary texts and exploring heterogeneity with the use of...
The Outsider, an absurd experiment with the unpresentable
“If the world were clear, art would not exist” Albert Camus[1] The Outsider by Albert Camus is often considered the epitome of Absurdist...
In the Absence of Meaning: Experiencing Existentialism in The Sound and the Fury
“It is a tale, told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing” (Macbeth 5.5.26-28). Echoing with the famous monologue in...
Reversing the Clock in Cloud Atlas: How Cyclical Notion of Time May Resolve the Apocalyptic Tendency
David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas consists of six interconnected novellas with six different protagonists set in different time periods and...
Expressionism and the hallucinations of Septimus Smith in Mrs. Dalloway
Throughout the course of Western literary history, there have always been writers attempting to innovate new forms of writing and new...
The Picture of Dorian Gray: experimenting morality through immorality
The Picture of Dorian Gray is a piece of decadent literature written by Oscar Wilde. Decadent literature is generally associated with its...
The Departure of Naturalism from Realism – Two sides of the Same Coin
Knowledge has long been divided into the arts or humanities and the natural sciences. In the modern era subjects, such as the social...
Ezra Pound’s The Cantos: An Experimental History Collage
“The artist is always beginning,” declared Ezra Pound (1885-1972) in his essay “How I Began” (1913), “Any work of art which is not a...
