World Literature

  In Rabindranath Tagore’s novel The Home and the World it is interesting to analyze the relationship between Nikhil’s and Sandip's p...

Voltaire’s exploration of free-will and Pangloss’s voluntary optimism and Martin’s voluntary pessimism is probably birthed from the...

Yamashita says in an interview, http://www.loggernaut.org/interviews/karenteiyamashita/ , when asked if she is an irreverent writer...

Marjane Satrapi states in her interview Universal Persepolis: A Pro-Iranian Humanist Tale, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMwfzqEqV...

I'm going to go completely off the tracks with this one so bear with me. What if Through the Arc of the Rainforest were actually an alle...

            I was listening to music today while finishing a paper for a different class, and I came across this song.   Now, I realiz...

            I enjoyed reading the novel Persepolis .   I enjoyed the comic book style it was written in, and that it was written from a ch...

                        Disgrace is the title of the novel, but the title reaches far beyond just naming the words that consume the 22...

In chapter 15 of Reading Lolita in Tehran Azin and Mahshid get into an argument over tradition. Azin is young and talking about her past hus...

Azar Nafisi's Reading Lolita in Tehran a Memoir in Books struck a good point on page 47, in which the author discusses her thought proce...

J.M. Coetzee's Disgrace  had a few messages in it that were shadowed by David Lurie's sexual mishaps and of course the rape.  I foun...

Hey everyone, I know it feels like we have read the Home and the World a very long time ago, but I have personally been grappling with this ...

While some people contend that the book was not "political enough ," m any members of the ruling party, the African National Cong...

Of all the novels we read this semester, I felt that Persepolis had the most intriguing portrayals of America . American thoughts and idea...

It's easy to simply gloss over the art style of Persepolis and simple accept it as an aesthetic or creative choice on par with any other...

In her PowerPoint presentation, Professor Dasgupta asked the question of how Yamashita incorporates the supernatural into her novel Th...

The theme of no longer being able to identify with your homeland is covered in quite a few books we have read this semester.  Reviewing th...

The main goal of the fundamentalist government in Iran is to protect the purity of women and thereby uphold their scarcity according to ...

In her novel Persepolis , Satrapi describes her family history by retelling the story of her grandfather (Ahmad Shah Qajar), her great grand...

“Humbert like most dictators was interested only in his vision of other people. He had created the Lolita, he desired, and would not ...