International Journal of Literature and Arts

Volume 2, Issue 1, January 2014

  • Treating the Fiction of Forms: Metafiction in John Barth

    Goetz Egloff

    Issue: Volume 2, Issue 1, January 2014
    Pages: 1-5
    Received: 5 December 2013
    Published: 10 January 2014
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    Abstract: The essay depicts John Barth´s sophisticated dealing with the fiction of forms. By referring to short stories from his 1968 collection Lost in the Funhouse, and especially to “Life-Story”, Barth´s approach of creating metafiction as response to supposedly exhausted literary topics is highlighted. Fiction, consisting of forms as equivalent of existe... Show More
  • Sexism or Gender Differentiation and Class Differentiation in George Bernard Shaw’s Arms and the Man

    Fatemeh Azizmohammadi, Zohreh Tayari

    Issue: Volume 2, Issue 1, January 2014
    Pages: 6-9
    Received: 19 November 2013
    Published: 30 January 2014
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    Abstract: Before surveying the gender differentiation and class discrimination in Arms and the Man, it will be useful to know something about the Victorian period in England, in which the play was written by George Bernard Shaw. In this period, people live in harsh condition and modernism arrived in England. Working classes tried to develop their social clas... Show More
  • Metatextuality of Transnational Marriages in Updike’s Terrorist

    Riyad Abdurahman Manqoush, Ruzy Suliza Hashim, Noraini Md. Yusof

    Issue: Volume 2, Issue 1, January 2014
    Pages: 10-15
    Received: 9 January 2014
    Published: 20 February 2014
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    Abstract: In this paper, we intend to analyse an American novel, John Updike’s Terrorist (2006), with the aim of examining its critical standpoint of the American women’ marriages to Muslim migrants. This essay explores the reasons which lead Updike to refuse this social hybridity and how that refusal disseminates biased attitude against the Muslim Americans... Show More
  • History as Rhetoric, Fable, and Literary Genre

    Alejandro Cheirif Wolosky

    Issue: Volume 2, Issue 1, January 2014
    Pages: 16-23
    Received: 11 December 2013
    Published: 20 February 2014
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    Abstract: This article provides an insight into the notion of history as a literary genre. It argues that in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries the concept of “history” was mostly employed in its plural form: “the stories” and not “history” were the predominant form of the concept of history. These “stories” were related to the ancient Ciceronian rhetor... Show More
  • A Psychological Study of Margaret Drabble’s The Red Queen (2004)

    Usha Rani Gupta, Sharanpal Singh

    Issue: Volume 2, Issue 1, January 2014
    Pages: 24-28
    Received: 24 January 2014
    Published: 20 February 2014
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    Abstract: This study is about the psychological problems of women in contemporary society as illustrated in Margaret Drabble’s selected novels. Judith Butler’s gender and performativity theory will help us to understand psychological problems of women in a better way. Moreover, the postulates of Butler’s gender performory help women to come out of their psyc... Show More