Explorations in World Literature, from Ancient to Contemporary

Edited by George Poulos & Stavroula Varella

ISBN: 978-960-9549-36-3, 284 pages

First published in 2013 by ATINER

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Table of Contents

1.	Explorations in World Literature, from Ancient to Contemporary: An Introduction George Poulos and Stavroula Varella	1
Part I: Poetry
2.	On the Religious Dimension of Giovanni Papini’s Work Nicoleta Călina	5
3.	The Narrative of Israeli-Palestinian Women Writing Poetry - "Home Remembering" Motif Lea Baratz and Roni Reingold	13
4.	Capitalism: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Cecil Rajendra’s Broken Buds Cheng Teik Ong	25
Part II: Drama
5.	A Comparative Study of the Vision of Bondage and Freedom in King Oedipus and King Lear Hiteshkumar Parmar	43
6.	‘Cleopatra Literature’ in Renaissance England: Shakespeare’s Cleopatra and her Sisters Sae Kitamura	53
7.	The Silence and Role of a Grotesque ‘Other’ in Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night's Dream Ipek Uygur	65
8.	Strindberg’s Miss Julie and the Democratization of Personal Life Kathleen A. Kelly	73
Part III: Prose Fiction
9.	Jane Austen’s “Sensibility” on Social Scene Yildiray Çevik	83
10.	Hawthorne on Empedocles on Aetna: Rewriting Greek Legend in Short Fiction Sandra S. Hughes	89
11.	Concept of Absurd Hero in Kafka’s Works Saeed Yazdani	95
12.	Kafka and the Absurd: Interpreting the Trial Nasser Mahmoudi, Fatemeh Azizmohammadi and Shahrameh Afrougheh	105
13.	Imaginative Narration in ‘Moderato Cantabile’ by Marguerite Duras Ahmet Gögercin	117
14.	Nuclearism and prophecy in Doris Lessing’s The Golden Notebook Shahram Kiaei	129
15.	A Comparison: La vie éternelle, roman and Die unendliche Geschichte Saul Andreetti	141
16.	Exploring the Edge of Trauma in W.G. Sebald’s Novel Austerlitz Catalina Botez	149
17.	Reception of Contemporary Greek Literature in Lithuania Aurelija Mykolaitytė	157
18.	Characterization of Women in the works of Iranian Woman-Writers Narges Bagheri and Shahrooz Hamidi	167
19.	Diasporic Iranian Literature in English and Iranian Identity: A Brief Overview Sanaz Fotouhi	177
20.	The Linguistic-literary Enterprise of Identity Formation; Issues and Discontents: Assam from Colonial to Post-colonial Karabi Deka Hazarika and Kaustubh Kumar Deka	187
21.	Disability in Literature: Hearing Authors and Deaf Characters Georgios Tsarsitalidis	199
22.	Antimodernism in Paradise News Xue Li and Li Fu	209
Part IV: Film
23.	The Image of the Stranger in Contemporary Bosnian and Serbian Literature and Film Elena Popovska	221
24.	Understanding Russia’s Past and Present through Russian Films Meenu Bhatnagar	235
25.	Gothic Carnivalesque and the Language of Laughter in Nolan’s The Dark Knight Dennis Yeo	247
Part V: Other Creative Texts and Events
26.	Magic and Superstition in the Fragments of Sophron of Syracuse Javier Verdejo Manchado	259
27.	“Spicy Minds”: Examining Audience Participation in Teasing Events in Cefalonia Efpraxia Pollatou	269