{"title":"Memory and Modern Drama: Tennessee Williams’s The Glass Menagerie as a Case Study","authors":"Abdelmonim Elmoutassim","doi":"10.22161/ijels.85.25","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22161/ijels.85.25","url":null,"abstract":"Tennessee Williams is one of the foremost playwrights in modern drama. In 1945, the American theater witnessed his mind-blowing play, The Glass Menagerie. Because of the latter, Williams received a great deal of fame and winnings. Since The Glass Menagerie is a memory play, this paper will focus on the subject of memory and its interconnectedness with modern drama first, then delve into memory theories, and lastly discuss memory mechanisms in The Glass Menagerie.","PeriodicalId":474639,"journal":{"name":"International journal of english, literature and social science","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135059774","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An Exploration of ‘Married Love’ by Tessa Hadley","authors":"Shanjida Halim, Tanzina Halim","doi":"10.22161/ijels.85.13","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22161/ijels.85.13","url":null,"abstract":"One of the most accomplished fiction writers of the twenty-first century, the British writer Tessa Hadley (1956-till present), is known for her exceptional power of seizing the familiar moments in our life that we would normally not think of highlighting. She is the author of several acclaimed novels and short stories such as Accidents in the Home, Everything Will Be All Right, The Master Bedroom, The London Train, Clever Girl, The Past, Late in the Day, Free Love, Married Love and Other Stories, Bad Dreams, etc. Capturing the beauty of ordinary lives, she writes about the drama of everyday life: complicated family relationships, love affairs, marriages, divorces, and betrayal.","PeriodicalId":474639,"journal":{"name":"International journal of english, literature and social science","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135953969","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Sexual harassment among educators and learners in rural high schools in Morocco: A case story","authors":"Amina Aboulkacem","doi":"10.22161/ijels.85.17","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22161/ijels.85.17","url":null,"abstract":"Sexual harassment remains a pressing issue in sensitive realms such as educational settings, with high schools being particularly vulnerable environments. This case study delves into the disturbing reality of sexual harassment among educators and learners alike in a specific high school that is situated in the suburbs of the historical town of Meknes, Morocco. In order to shed light on the detrimental consequences of this critical issue for all stakeholders involved, the study employs a qualitative research design; data were collected through interviews, observations, and document analysis to explore the experiences of the parties involved. The aim behind this study is to reveal the intrinsic causes and side effects that lead some educators to molest some of their students inside the “sacred realm” of school. Moreover, the case story highlights the lasting impact of sexual harassment on victims' mental health and academic performance, as well as the broader repercussions on the school community. Before emphasizing the need for policies and training in high schools to combat this pervasive issue and promote inclusive learning environment, wherein educators and learners can thrive without fear of harassment and to nurture a culture of respect, equity, and dignity for all. The findings unveil a number of themes for analysis and the generation of final results.","PeriodicalId":474639,"journal":{"name":"International journal of english, literature and social science","volume":"389 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136259487","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Unraveling Madness: Linguistic Complexities in ‘Waiting for the Barbarian’ and ‘The Secret History’","authors":"Shayan Aqdas","doi":"10.22161/ijels.85.28","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22161/ijels.85.28","url":null,"abstract":"The research paper is a qualitative study of the multifaceted role of language as a potent tool of power and its connection to the theme of madness within the novels \"Waiting for the Barbarians\" by Coetzee and \"The Secret History\" by Tartt. Within the world of fiction, language emerges as a dynamic force, enabling creators to craft narratives that draw upon intricate emotions and characterizations. Close textual reading and analysis serve as the primary instruments for data collection, and this research contextualizes itself within the broader landscape of literary analysis, postcolonial studies, and discourse analysis, and unveils the dynamic ways in which language becomes a tool for wielding power, from economic and political dominance to coercive control. Ultimately, the paper underscores the impact of language on societal power structures, and its role in constructing and dismantling narratives, offering a compelling lens through which to examine the theme of madness in these literary works.","PeriodicalId":474639,"journal":{"name":"International journal of english, literature and social science","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135106024","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Rift in Marriages: A study of Family Dynamics in Jhumpa Lahiri’s Interpreter of Maladies","authors":"Dr. Pragya Verma","doi":"10.22161/ijels.85.31","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22161/ijels.85.31","url":null,"abstract":"Jhumpa Lahiri is a writer of South Asian origin who was born and brought up in the United States. She debuted with her short story collection Interpreter of Maladies. The stories in this collection glance at the Indo-American diaspora. All the nine stories in this collection are aligned with the recurring patterns. The institution of marriage, romantic relationship and Indian family system vs American family pattern has been focused at length. The subtitle of the novel goes perfectly with the themes of the stories. Geetha Ganapathy- Dore’ notes that “Indian people, films, novels, beauty-queens, food and spirituality cross borders easily.” She adds that Lahiri’s collection was originally sub-titled ‘Bengal, Boston and Beyond’ (58) The three stories chosen for study reflect a modern world that witnesses the assimilation of different cultures and problem of immigrants while living in an ethnic group. “Temporary Matter”, “Sexy” and “Interpreter of Maladies” have been chosen to make the study specific. All of these emphasize on the life and circumstances leading to the rift in marriage and relationships deficit of love. This work also reflects the diaspora experiences of the Indian immigrants belonging to the first and second generation. The lucidity of language and expression are quite commendable.","PeriodicalId":474639,"journal":{"name":"International journal of english, literature and social science","volume":"211 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135262138","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Caste System Turns into A Social Curse and Social Discrimination: A Study of Mulk Raj Anand’s Untouchable in the Perspective of Post-independence Bangladesh","authors":"Md. Shamsul Kabir","doi":"10.22161/ijels.85.37","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22161/ijels.85.37","url":null,"abstract":"The caste system roots in the heart of Hinduism and falls apart Hindus into touchable and untouchable. The sweepers are regarded as untouchables and are given no choice and access to their social life. The caste system in Hinduism and, therefore, in the Hindu-majored nation in India is a strong social discriminatory hierarchy that has been exercised for more than two millenniums. Mulk Raj Anand, with a firm belief in the dignity and equality of all human beings, attempts to project a panoramic scene of the caste system by beckoning a single day from the diary of Bakha, an untouchable boy who is a sweeper in profession. The present paper attempts to address the curse and discrimination triggered by the caste system, which is prevalent in Mulk Raj Anand’s Untouchable. Though the scenes of the novel belong to a small, interior town in Punjab, the happenings are pan-Indian in nature. This paper also argues how the caste system paves the way for inter-caste conflict and exploitation and, apart from several caste discrimination, why changing the upper caste’ outlook is the sole way out to wipe out the stigma of the caste system.","PeriodicalId":474639,"journal":{"name":"International journal of english, literature and social science","volume":"169 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135318931","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Literary Form and Revolution: The Politics of Melodrama in Late Chartist Literature","authors":"Thinkal Hansan","doi":"10.22161/ijels.85.42","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22161/ijels.85.42","url":null,"abstract":"The period of late Chartism beginning in the late 1840s coincided with the transformation of the British press as a reaction to the advancement in industrial capitalism and the changing character of the public sphere to which it contributed directly. The resultant emergence of the British press in the mid nineteenth century from a political discourse to print journalism had direct political implication on the working class/Chartist press as well as their political agitation and plebeian public sphere. This paper will explore the effect of the ‘popular’ (both the press and culture) on the Chartist Press and literature and how the Chartist writers and editors including Ernest Jones and George W.M. Reynolds appropriated the emergent notion of the popular for radical political propaganda. I will argue that the staple rhetoric and dominant form of nineteenth century melodrama and sensationalism were used by these authors to create a distinctive class-conscious readership. Melodrama became, in the Chartist press, both an emotional reaction to the liberal capitalist economy’s classificatory politics as well as formed a resistance to the same creating a distinctive working class public sphere that publicized the private in political terms.","PeriodicalId":474639,"journal":{"name":"International journal of english, literature and social science","volume":"158 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135448098","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Muhammad Arsalan Asjad, Zaixiang Lou, Mukesh Mukesh, Sehar Anwar, Hafiz Abdul Munam, Farazia Hassan, Waleed x Waleed Al-Ansi
{"title":"A Review on the Organization Model of Second Language Mental Lexicon Based on Word Association Test","authors":"Muhammad Arsalan Asjad, Zaixiang Lou, Mukesh Mukesh, Sehar Anwar, Hafiz Abdul Munam, Farazia Hassan, Waleed x Waleed Al-Ansi","doi":"10.22161/ijels.85.3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22161/ijels.85.3","url":null,"abstract":"In the past two decades, the study of second language mental lexicon organization has become a research direction that has attracted much attention from scholars. The research on second language mental lexicon organization has achieved fruitful outcomes in both basic theoretical research and empirical research. The basic theoretical research mainly focuses on the lexical knowledge framework theory and the exploration of second language mental lexicon organization, while the empirical research explored the characteristics of second language learner’s mental lexicon organization based on the word association test as the main research method. In addition, future study needs to pay attention to the optimization of word association test, the use of multiple testing methods, the learners at the basic education level, and the attempt to integrate the findings with pedagogical practice research.","PeriodicalId":474639,"journal":{"name":"International journal of english, literature and social science","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135496600","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"First-Person Point of View in Contrast to Globalisation in Somerset Maugham’s ‘Mr. Know-All’","authors":"Armel Mbon","doi":"10.22161/ijels.85.7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22161/ijels.85.7","url":null,"abstract":"This work analyses the contrast created in William Somerset Maugham’s literary composition, with reference to the theme of ‘Escape’. Escape is, indeed, a recurrent theme in such Maugham’s short stories as ‘The Escape’, ‘Mabel’, ‘A Friend in Need,’ ‘The Taipan’, ‘The Verger’, and others. The analysis thereof unfolds through the scrutiny of two samples of these short stories videlicet ‘The Escape’ and ‘Mabel’. In real life, it happens to us to escape either from a country, a nightmare, a delicate financial situation, a mediocre existence, or else. Likewise, in fiction, Roger Charing and George escape from Ruth Barlow and Mabel, the ladies they are engaged to before the wedding days respectively in ‘The Escape’ and ‘Mabel’. This escape, an interconnection between these stories, is prompted by their sudden falling out of love, which is inexplicable in the narrators’ words, because as Blaise Pascal thinks, the heart has reasons that reason itself knows nothing about. Apart from this common denominator, the two stories contrast sharply at different levels of their components as setting, characters... To investigate this contrast, owing to the economy and simplicity of the storytelling that characterise a short story, these stories require close scrutiny and textual approach.","PeriodicalId":474639,"journal":{"name":"International journal of english, literature and social science","volume":"266 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135699529","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Rewriting and Spreading of Chinese Culture in Chinese-American Literature— Taking Kingston's The Woman Warrior as an Example","authors":"Xue Yuhui","doi":"10.22161/ijels.85.33","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22161/ijels.85.33","url":null,"abstract":"Maxine Hong Kingston is an American novelist of Chinese descent. Her masterpiece The Woman Warrior (1976) has attracted the attention of many critics, and there are a lot of relevant researches. There are various research directions, including cultural conflict, narrative perspective, feminism and archetypal interpretation. However, there are few studies on the rewriting of the two historical stories of Hua Mulan and Ts’ ai Yen in the works. Starting from two historical stories, this article will study the adaptation and meaning of the novel by the method of intensive reading and analysis of the text. In the rewriting of Mulan's story, the protagonist who grew up under the background of dual culture and life imagined a female image who pursued freedom, equality and realized her own value, which is the rewritten image of Mulan. The rewriting of Ts' ai Yen's story is used to show the dilemma experienced by the protagonist and the final solution of the problem. In rewriting the stories of historical figures, the work shows the struggle and exploration of Chinese Americans who try to establish their cultural identity between Chinese and American dual cultures.","PeriodicalId":474639,"journal":{"name":"International journal of english, literature and social science","volume":"5 1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135262142","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}